AI UX Engineer

About the position

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you're in the right place. As an AI Experiences Engineer, you will collaborate with a small, tight knit team of innovative, coding thought leaders who set the strategy for our customer interface in an engaging and ethical way. You will also be working closely with the product and design teams of Priceline. Self-starters are encouraged to explore, fail fast, and build new things, and will be given opportunities to be developed and grow within the company.

Responsibilities

• Participate in development efforts for projects that impact the evolution of Priceline's business.
• Be a senior influencer of a multi-functional team that experiments, iterates and delivers on new product objectives.
• Work towards best practices in the development of user experiences.
• Merge programming, design, and human interaction knowledge to build our customer-facing applications.
• Design and develop features supporting Hotel, Airline, Rental Car and Vacation Package businesses, that serve hundreds of millions of searches each day.
• Leverage relationships and influence Product and Design team members on a modern technology stack grounded in Node.js, React and GraphQL.
• Contribute to optimize our products for cross-device performance, including mobile, desktop, and tablets.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 2-4 years in web development working on consumer facing web projects.
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript/Typescript, HTML and CSS.
• Fluency in one or more JavaScript frameworks or meta-frameworks (React, Vue, NextJS, Remix, etc.).
• Proficiency and working history with Node.js and libraries like Express.js.
• Proficiency in developing and consuming RESTFUL and GraphQL APIs.
• Advanced knowledge of client / browser concerns including accessibility, core web vitals and browser APIs.
• History and proficiency with JavaScript based bundlers and build systems like Webpack, Vite, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Design Systems.
• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

Nice-to-haves

• History of Implementing or defining Design Systems is a bonus.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Annual bonus and/or equity grant eligibility.