Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

You'll be an integral member of our team, dedicated to creating a highly available, high-performing, and adaptive job application platform.

Your Mission:

• Your main focus will be the candidate-facing frontend that presents jobs to applicants, powered by a headless CMS.

• You will be responsible for implementing the frontend modules for the end-user-facing application, the frontend of the job management platform for recruiters and content editors, and the APIs and integrations that feed them.

• With your technical expertise, you'll be hands-on across the stack, from crafting polished, performant user interfaces to building the user-friendly APIs that support them.

• You'll join an agile team that values shared code ownership, pair programming, and thorough code reviews.

• As you design and implement solutions, you'll benefit from the support of your peers and provide support in return.

We value your dedication to quality and detail in everything you build. Whether developing new features or enhancing existing ones, you'll focus on completeness, testability, maintainability, and performance. You'll uphold the team's high standards for design, paying close attention to detail, code quality, and test automation. In addition, you'll balance quick code delivery with best practices, managing risk while building quality software.

Your technical expertise:

• Strong experience building frontend applications with React and its modern ecosystem (Hooks, component composition, state management)

• Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a solid command of HTML and CSS

• Experience with component-driven architecture, design systems, and reusable UI libraries

• Experience integrating and consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs from the frontend

• A strong eye for frontend performance, including Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, and server-side rendering or static generation with Next.js

• Commitment to accessibility (WCAG) and responsive, cross-browser design

• Experience with automated testing, including unit and end-to-end tests (e.g. Jest, Vitest, Playwright, or Cypress)

• Working knowledge of backend and full-stack development with Node.js, and databases like MongoDB and PostgreSQL

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS and serverless application stacks, including deploying and scaling web applications

• Good understanding of software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban, and experience with tools like Jira

• Experience collaborating with git repositories, following semantic commit conventions

• Experience with monitoring and setting up dashboards for application performance management with tools like Datadog

• Willingness to attend in-person workshops in Salzburg / Austria

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with headless content management systems

• Experience with multi-tenant systems

• Experience with Apollo GraphQL

• Experience with OpenSearch for advanced querying features

• Knowledge of CQRS and Event Sourcing patterns

• Experience with content distribution networks like Akamai

• Familiarity with managing infrastructure as code with Terraform

• Familiarity with the Serverless Framework v4