Careers

Working at Aurora.

A small, careful team building a premium-only travel platform from Manchester. We hire slowly and well — and we're honest about what we ask in return.

Culture, in three sentences.

We are forty-something people across engineering, design, member experience, and commercial. Most of us are in Manchester two or three days a week with a quiet, sunny office in the Northern Quarter; the rest of the team is remote across the UK and one corner of southern Italy.

We work in tight five-week cycles with a one-week cooldown between each. Every cycle ships, every cycle gets reviewed. We don't do crunch — if a cycle is going to miss, we cut scope rather than overrun. That practice is older than the company; the founders both burned out at previous places and built this one to be the opposite.

We pay competitively at the upper end of the UK tech-startup band, with equity participation for everyone. Twenty-eight days holiday plus the bank holidays, two weeks fully paid sabbatical at every fifth anniversary, and a £500 annual travel credit on the platform — the founders insist that everyone who works here actually uses our own product.

What we hire for.

  • Specifics over hype

    Our copy says what is true and stops. Our internal communication does the same. Bullet points beat slides; data beats opinion expressed loudly.

  • Quality is the floor

    We don't have a tier of work that is “good enough.” The booking confirmation email gets the same care as the homepage hero. The intern's pull request gets the same review as the CTO's.

  • Quiet over loud

    No yellow gradients. No emoji-heavy Slack culture. No performance reviews dressed up as feedback theatre. We talk about the work, then we go and do the work.

Open roles.

Don't see your role? We always read speculative applications. Email hiring@billal.travel with a line on what you'd bring and we'll write back, even if it's a "not now".