Senior Front-end developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are on a mission to be the easiest and most reliable way to arrange home services, connecting homeowners with qualified service professionals. We operate the market-leading brands in France (Travaux.com) and the Netherlands (Werkspot.nl) and expanding in Italy (Instapro.it). Our Product, Technology & UX department consists of approximately 100 talented professionals, deeply passionate about creating beautiful digital marketplaces.

Travaux, Werkspot and Instapro are part of IAC / ANGI Home Services.

Job Description

Team & Technology

You will become a part of a product development team that builds and constantly improves an application for our users based on insights and data from user research and experiments. You will work together with 4 other Developers (1 Front-end developer), UX Designer, User Researcher, Product Manager, Agile Coach, and a Business Analyst.

You will also be a part of the front-end guild collaborating with other front-end engineers across the company to ensure the high quality of the software by introducing new technologies, improvements, setting quality standards and exchanging experience, as well as taking on bigger cross-teams front-end initiatives (for example, currently we are moving from a monolithic PHP application to a React front-end stack using GraphQL).

We use modern tools such as ReactJS, NextJS, ExpressJS, Apollo Client, CSS-in-JS, GraphQL, Webpack, Kubernetes, and Docker. We keep a close eye on quality and make sure everything is tested in an automated way with tools like Cypress, Jest, and GitLab pipelines.

Your Role

You will join us in our goal to create the easiest and most reliable product experience for our users. 

We are looking for a strong front-end developer who is able to contribute to creating the technical vision for the front-end of our application and productively collaborate and exchange experience with the team as well as other front-end engineers across the company.

You will have our support to be continuously learning and the autonomy to decide which skills to nurture that will help both you and Werkspot be successful.

Your responsibilities

  • Collaborate effectively with the team to deliver high-quality solutions for our users
  • Contribute to, maintain, and adhere to front-end development quality standards and best practices together with other front-end developers
  • Understand data and context that drive decisions
  • Be proactive in suggesting improvements, ideas, solutions and offering help
  • Bring your opinion to the table and be respectful to others while engaging in productive discussions
  • Share your knowledge and experience with others and helping them grow

Your skills and experience

  • 5+ years of experience developing web applications with JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Extensive experience with ReactJS and its best practices
  • Experience with NextJS and TypeScript
  • Strong understanding of software design principles and front-end application architecture and experience applying it in practice
  • Solid engineering capability with an eye towards performance and responsiveness
  • Experience with CI/CD and test automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Jest, Cypress, Gitlab CI/CD)
  • Proficiency with JavaScript tooling, like Webpack/Eslint/etc
  • An eye for a good UI/UX and experience with working closely with designers
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
  • Nice to have: experience with GraphQL, back-end development, Design systems, Docker,  Kubernetes

What we offer

  • A great working environment in the center of Amsterdam (once we go back)
  • Flexible working hours and remote working to accommodate personal needs
  • A competitive salary
  • Personal growth budget and time for attending training courses and conferences
  • Relocation budget if coming from abroad (once it is safe)
  • 25 days of annual leave
  • Pension arrangement
  • Lunch allowance, fruit, and coffee
  • Free fitness in our building
  • Frequent and fun events with the entire company to celebrate achievements and milestones

Additional information

How we are organized:

Our Product, Technology and UX department currently consists of 4 tracks and approximately 100 professionals, from all over the world: Brasil, Canada, India, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the USA. Each track focuses on a slice of the user journey: you will be part of the Homeowner track, where we make sure that as many homeowners as possible can find a tradesperson to perform high-quality jobs for them. Within the tracks, multidisciplinary product development teams collaborate on achieving the goals that they set and commit to each quarter. We approach our decisions in an experiment-guided and agile way: we validate new directions using a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Our shared values:

We believe our success starts with sharing the same values when it comes to how we work. These values are the foundation of everything we do, and you’ll experience them daily. Our values are: Be stronger together; Aim high; Take ownership; Be transparent and respectful; Be open-minded and curious; Embrace diversity; Focus on our customers. The company culture in our organization is very open and inclusive; we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

Special note related to COVID-19

We will be onboarding remotely. Until the government (RIVM) is no longer advising us to work from home, we will be working remotely. We will do our best to make the onboarding as smooth as possible and help you get up-to-speed.

Is this for you?

Send your resume with a brief explanation of why you are highly motivated by this role. You are welcome to provide us with a link to some code you’ve written or a project which showcases your work.

You can apply via the “Apply” button or by sending your information to Catherine Tsokur, Technology Lead at Werkspot, Travaux, and Instapro. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

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