We're looking for a new colleague to join as a Senior Frontend Engineer.
Every day our engineers design, develop, test, release, operate and measure the Planday product under the Agile philosophy, and in so doing, redefine the interaction between businesses and employees around the world. In this global picture, Planday's Engineering team ensures that our products and services do what we expect, and perform well 24/7.
In this role, you will join an international, highly motivated, cross-functional, and self-driven product team that includes engineers, designers, and product managers. We trust that you understand how your technical solutions help to implement the company vision and that you have a passion for interacting with many different people to achieve a goal.
We are looking for an engineer who enjoys innovation, challenging the status quo, and taking great pride in building products used by thousands of people all over the world.
You can expect to work with the following:
- Have a natural curiosity towards learning new things, and the desire to innovate and grow your own and others abilities.
- Collaborate with (and learn from) colleagues who have a profound understanding of other disciplines like design, project-management and back-end API development; in highly agile teams. - - Proactively participate in mentoring people around you.
- Assess the feasibility of feature requests, design wireframes, and help guide project owners and designers into the most optimal solutions.
- Implement cutting-edge frontend applications for our SaaS platform, in close collaboration with our UI/UX team and other frontend developers.
- Build, maintain and extend our internal frontend packages, including an extensive React UI component library.
If you see yourself in some of the points below, great - we’re excited to learn more about you!
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you should be accustomed to an agile work environment and comfortable in a communicative interface role within our organisation. You will need to rely on an ability to switch contexts effectively and reach pragmatic solutions through quick decision making.
- Extensive experience with JavaScript and TypeScript or any other type checker
- Extensive experience with React, CSS, HTML and JavaScript Testing Frameworks
- Skilled collaborator with UX designers and product managers
- Proficient with version control systems (Git and/or Subversion)
- English communication skills
- Proactive champion of agile and delivery practices
- Team spirit, curiosity to learn, and desire for improvement
It would be beneficial if you have experience with the following – but we want to hear from you even if you don’t.
- Microservice/micro frontend architecture knowledge
- Accessibility (WCAG, double A)
- Styled components
- Experience with backend
- Testing - we use Jest with react-testing library
