About FareHarbor
At FareHarbor, our mission is to make experiences better for everyone. Founded in 2013 in Hawaii and acquired by Booking Holdings in 2018, FareHarbor creates powerful tools that enable our clients (think boat rentals, museums, food tours, events and more!) to operate and grow.
With over 20,000 clients across 90+ countries—we’re the largest in our industry and shaping the future of travel, together.
Our team is an ‘Ohana of 700+ people around the world. We’re passionate about pioneering an industry, embracing challenges with open arms, and delivering value to the experiences industry.
FareHarbor Core Values:
- Think Client First
- We Are One ‘Ohana
- Be Curious and Learn
- Own It.
- Act With Integrity
- Embrace the Challenge
Why FareHarbor?
Founding FareHarbor required unwavering passion. Turning a start-up into the world’s leading and largest reservation software for tours, activities, and attractions required relentless dedication and vision. To date, we’ve helped over 20,000 global businesses operate successfully and are proud to have played a role in enabling business owners to live their dreams.
And since day one, we’ve known that our real success lies in our people—the Ohana.
With each new feature launched and new client onboarded, there is a team of incredible people behind the scenes who are full of dedication, passion, energy, and the will to succeed. We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work—to believe in their abilities, to freely express their creativity, and to contribute with their own uniqueness by wearing their true colors. We take care of one another and always prioritize health and wellbeing. We give our people the space and trust to learn, to try, to succeed, to collaborate, to think outside of the box, to make mistakes, and even to fail. And then we come together to try again.
From the minute you join, you have a voice. You find your space. You make an impact. We celebrate our victories, shout our successes, and are always eager to tackle new challenges. And we can’t wait to see all that’s to come.
We are looking for Engineers to join us:
At FareHarbor, a Booking Holding Company, we’re evolving our frontend platform to enable faster, more reliable product development across a complex and growing ecosystem.
As a Frontend Platform Engineer, you will work at the intersection of platform and product engineering, helping teams deliver features while modernizing our frontend architecture. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers across teams, contribute shared solutions, improve developer experience, and guide the adoption of modern frontend practices.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving practical engineering problems, supporting product teams, and improving frontend systems in a large, evolving codebase.
What you’ll do here:
- Partner with product teams to design and deliver frontend solutions that align with platform standards and long-term architecture.
- Drive incremental migration and modernization efforts within a large monolithic codebase.
- Identify shared problems across teams and develop scalable abstractions, utilities, and patterns.
- Improve developer experience through better tooling, documentation, and workflows.
- Contribute to and influence frontend architecture decisions, balancing immediate product needs with long term platform health.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including design, backend, and product to support consistent, accessible, and maintainable frontend experiences.
- Help define and promote best practices in performance, testing, accessibility, and code organization.
- Act as a technical partner and consultant for frontend development across multiple teams.
- Leverage AI enabled tools and workflows thoughtfully to improve productivity, implementation quality, and problem solving while maintaining strong engineering judgment and standards.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience working with large-scale production codebases and mission-critical systems.
- Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks like Vue (or React, Angular).
- Solid understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and browser fundamentals.
- Experience working in complex frontend architectures, and a strong interest in navigating and improving legacy or monolithic systems.
- Experience with, or interest in, incrementally modernizing codebases through migrations, refactors, and adoption of improved patterns.
- Strong grasp of frontend architecture and design patterns for scalability and maintainability.
- Familiarity with build tools and CI/CD practices such as Webpack, Vite, or similar tooling.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and stakeholders.
- A pragmatic mindset and the ability to balance technical quality with product delivery needs.
- Familiarity with AI enabled development tools and openness to using new technologies to improve engineering workflows, collaboration, and product delivery.
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with frontend platform work such as shared tooling, developer workflows, or internal frameworks.
- Experience improving developer experience through automation, local development tooling and documentation.
- Experience contributing to or adopting a design system and shared component libraries.
This position is open to candidates located in Europe who are willing to relocate to the Netherlands.
Benefits
- Global leave benefit
- 22 weeks paid parental leave
- 2 weeks paid grandparent leave
- Extended care and bereavement leave
- Life insurance policy
- Pension Plan
- Central Amsterdam Location
- Discount CZ insurance
- Working in a multicultural environment - 45 different nationalities
- Commuting allowance for public transport & subsidized lunch
- Wellness benefits (Headspace subscription & wellness webinars)
- Hybrid friendly
- Work-from-home assistance
- Educational Opportunities
- Social hours & events and team-building
- 26 vacation days per year
FareHarbor is committed to creating a diverse environment, and we are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. We welcome talent that can offer us new insights and perspectives on challenges that we face, and we take measures to eliminate unconscious bias throughout the interview and hiring process. In tandem, we work to cultivate an inclusive culture in which all of our employees can be their authentic selves.
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