Senior Front End Developer

What is Exoticca

Exoticca is a pioneering online travel agency that has revolutionized the conception, production, and e-commerce of long-distance dream trips. At the core of Exoticca's brand equity is the commitment to "creating life milestones." We believe in delivering best-value trips, exploring unique destinations, curating extraordinary travel experiences, and demonstrating genuine care for both our customers and the planet.

We are a professional, dynamic, multicultural team in rapid international growth, seeking new partners to help us create the best and most forward-thinking travel company of our generation.

What about the FrontEnd Team?

At Exoticca, we take pride in building software that is efficient, clean, testable, and scalable. As a Senior Frontend Developer, you’ll play a crucial role in transforming our codebase and helping us scale up as a company. You’ll work on creating high-quality, maintainable frontends, including the main website and back-office tools.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Implementations of new features using React and modern JavaScript technologies
• High test coverage with React Testing Library and Cypress.
• Tackling architectural challenges to improve scalability and maintainability as we scale up our products.
• Driving initiatives to improve platform efficiency, time to market, security and expertise.
• Addressing tech debt and evolving the codebase to support multiple teams collaborating effectively while ensuring high-quality, maintainable code.
• Participating in continuous discovery habits to collaborate closely with product teams and shape the features we deliver.
• Bringing efficient ideas to the table and delivering solutions you're proud of.

Your new and fresh ideas will always be welcomed to build software that makes our vision a scalable reality. We look for someone who can step up and lead a project, and really like writing code that can be tested. Be proud of your code!

Which will be your main responsibilities:

• Feature Development & User Journey Optimization (30%): Lead the design and implementation of new features across the entire user journey, from discovery to checkout and payment. Collaborate closely with product and design teams to translate concepts into intuitive and performant web applications using Next.js, TypeScript, and React Query.
• Testing & Quality Assurance (20%): Drive testing initiatives from unit tests to end-to-end automation (Cypress, Playwright) to ensure robust and reliable applications.
• Design System & Accessibility (15%): Build and evolve our custom design system, ensuring consistent UI/UX and improving accessibility across all user interfaces.
• Discovery & Experimentation (5%): Participate in discovery phases and experimentation processes, leveraging data and insights to inform development decisions.
• Technical Debt & Modernization (10%): Proactively identify and address technical debt, including dependency updates and migrations from older packages to modern solutions.
• Architectural Vision & Migration Strategy (10%): Ability to analyze existing codebases, identify areas for improvement (e.g., styling solutions), propose migration strategies, and lead their execution.
• Technical Leadership & Mentoring (10%): Mentor junior and mid-level developers, contribute to knowledge sharing sessions, establish and maintain code standards, conduct code reviews and ensure code quality within the team.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Frontend Developer, specifically with Next.js, TypeScript, and React.
• In-depth understanding of state management with React Query.
• Expertise in Styled Components for efficient and scalable styling, with a strong understanding of its architecture and a keen interest in evaluating and migrating to alternative styling solutions.
• Experience with robust testing methodologies, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing using tools like Cypress or Playwright.
• Experience with internationalization and localization for multi-language applications.
• Solid understanding of web accessibility (WCAG) standards and best practices.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
• Strong ownership and accountability for assigned tasks and projects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively work within a cross-functional team and mentor others.
• Adaptability and flexibility to thrive in a fast-paced e-commerce environment where priorities may evolve.
• Passion for user experience (UX) and a strong user-centric development mindset.
• Ability to establish and enforce code standards and promote best practices within a team. 

Desirable:

• Experience with monitoring, observability, and UX tracking tools (e.g., Sentry, Datadog, Snowplow).
• Familiarity with infrastructure setups, Docker, and caching mechanisms.
• Exposure to AI tools and their application in development workflows or user-facing solutions.
• Experience in an e-commerce domain.
• Experience with frontend architecture patterns: modularization, domain-driven design, and clean architecture.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package in line with job responsibilities and experience.
• Additionally, we propose the use of flexible compensation management for diet, transportation, private health insurance wit Cobee.
• Individual training budget.
• 100% remote work model.
• Permanent contract from the start.
• Travel packages at reduced prices!
• Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you.
• Unlimited coffee, team lunches, English lessons, quarterly activities, biannual parties.
• And last but not least, becoming part of a fun and motivated multicultural team at an agile and rapid growing organization!

Exoticca is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusiveness are our core. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under European, country, or local law.

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