Roles:
Frontend
Must-have skills:
ReactTypeScript
Nice-to-have skills:
Leadership
Considering candidates from:
Germany
Germany
Work arrangement: Onsite or hybrid
Industry: Software Development
Language: English
Level: Senior or lead
Required experience: 8+ years
Relocation: Not paid
Visa support: Not provided
Size: 201 - 500 employees
Company
Our vision is to enable a sustainable food system. One that runs transparently and without waste. Sound big? That’s because it is.
Starting out, the Choco platform connects restaurants and suppliers, improving the order process to save time, money, and food. But that’s just the start. We’re growing fast and need the best team to power our climb.
Starting out, the Choco platform connects restaurants and suppliers, improving the order process to save time, money, and food. But that’s just the start. We’re growing fast and need the best team to power our climb.
Description
Directly reporting to the Head of Engineering, the Staff Frontend Engineer is pivotal in steering our web engineering strategy. This role is tasked with leading high-impact technical projects spanning across cross-functional product teams, enhancing our microfrontend architecture, and ensuring the development of cutting-edge web products.
As a functional expert, the Staff Frontend Engineer plays both a consultative and hands-on role. But this role is about more than expertise - it's also about mentorship. Our Staff Frontend Engineer aids fellow engineers, fostering an environment where technical skills are continuously sharpened and expanded. From enhancing our application processes to fortifying security measures and optimizing engineering tasks, their contributions resonate throughout the entire tech infrastructure.
In our dynamic technical landscape, the Staff Frontend Engineer stands as a beacon of expertise, always driving forward with precision and professionalism.
What You’ll Do
As a functional expert, the Staff Frontend Engineer plays both a consultative and hands-on role. But this role is about more than expertise - it's also about mentorship. Our Staff Frontend Engineer aids fellow engineers, fostering an environment where technical skills are continuously sharpened and expanded. From enhancing our application processes to fortifying security measures and optimizing engineering tasks, their contributions resonate throughout the entire tech infrastructure.
In our dynamic technical landscape, the Staff Frontend Engineer stands as a beacon of expertise, always driving forward with precision and professionalism.
What You’ll Do
- Drive the organization’s engineering strategy for web. Bringing the interests of engineering and the company together.
- Discover, incept and drive strategic technical projects arching over several cross-functional product teams.
- Work with our engineering teams to enhance its microfrontend architecture and platform to develop cutting edge web products
- Act as a functional expert, a go-to person, an impact-multiplier, an enabler and as a troubleshooter when needed.
- Share your knowledge, develop expertise in our product and grow with your team to become an even greater engineer. Mentor other engineers and support them to acquire both wide and deep technical knowledge.
- Touch and improve different areas of our applications through tooling, CI/CD, security, or related engineering processes.
The technology you’ll work with
- We use React, TypeScript, micro frontends architecture, Jest, Styled Components for our web frontend. Our mobile apps are written in Kotlin, Swift, Flutter and we utilize AppSync with GraphQL.
- We have a cutting-edge environment and use NodeJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS DynamoDB and our infrastructure is powered by AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline and AWS S3.
- Our complete stack can be viewed here
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of professional hands-on experience as a senior, lead engineer or staff engineer in complex development projects.
- Expert in various frontend technologies and modern frontend frameworks, and testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress
- You are fluent in Typescript and keen on trying out new technologies
- Strong experience with complex microservices, event-driven architecture, integrations and developing APIs
- Very deep knowledge in system designs and software architectures
- Previous experience in defining and building up CI/CD pipelines to support development.
- Ability to drive the technical vision of a 50+ engineering organization and drive business critical projects.
- Ability to identify, articulate issues and take ownership for delivering practical solutions, while prioritizing tasks effectively.
- Outstanding communication and influencing skills combined with empathy and eagerness to share and develop others
- Good learning ability, open-mindedness and good self-organizational skills will be absolutely key to the success of your work and the business overall.
- Experience with Microservices, Event-driven architecture, Integrations and Developing APIs