Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Department: Product & Engineering

Company Description

Have you ever worked for a company that actually wanted you to bring your whole self to work every single day?

We are disrupting a typically stagnant environment by connecting companies of all sizes and providing them with the platform and network needed to create value from old processes like procurement, invoicing, payments, and workflow. We recognize that business is both messy and social - two revelations that have driven the development of Tradeshift, a platform for all your business interactions.

Team. Tradeshift supply chain platform brings sellers and buyers the future with digital marketplaces, payments, and apps. Our team owns the payment documents and validation which is a core part of the platform. We develop software that allows sellers to provide goods and services through the Tradeshift network. We maintain and expand apps and services that enable our customers to enroll larger volumes of invoices in electronic format, in order for them to obtain a higher degree of digitalisation.We strive to make digital the default for every process, every document, all over the world.

Job Description

As an experienced Frontend Software Engineer you will take ownership of creating and viewing commerce documents bringing direct value to our users, discuss and review code, architecture and design, and regularly challenge and improve the process. You will get a unique opportunity to develop your talent, as our challenges constantly evolve within our team.

We believe in team growth, ownership, development and quality assurance. You will have a manager and a team helping you grow, amazing company culture and perks. As a Frontend Software Engineer your involvement will start from product inception through architecture, design and production support. 

Our teams have great autonomy and responsibility to choose the best solutions, technologies and approaches to bringing Tradeshift to the next level. Of course, this will not be easy; you will face a lot of complex challenges in our growing, global, fast-paced startup.

What a day is like:

You will be working with product managers and designers in a global environment to define and ship a new product experience, migrate existing legacy code to new apps backed by microservices, create new apps and new modules within the platform and work on feature requests and prioritized bugs that are crucial to our enterprise customers. You will be writing code covered by unit and integration tests and use git, with an open source like workflow, using forks and pull requests. 

You will work with technologies like React, Typescript, Javascript, CSS/Less but you will also be exposed to DevOps technologies like Kubernetes and Docker and supporting tools like Datadog, Sentry, or Splunk. You will also gain more cloud experience as our platform runs in AWS and GCP.

You will be writing high-quality, tested and peer-reviewed code, will help review code from other team members and contribute to what the team is delivering using a CI/CD release pipeline.

You will brainstorm with the team on technical architecture or design options, implementation alternatives and help solve day to day issues in a collaborative effort. 

You will be involved in all aspects of the product development, using an agile SCRUM approach, from user story to final implementation and production support. You will identify opportunities and implement solutions to improve engineering productivity.

Qualifications

You’re perfect for this role if you are passionate about the impact of your work, are excited to learn new technologies, and are willing to dive into unknown territories. You are inclined towards software engineering best practices, pragmatic solutions, and are proud to own the quality of your deliverables. Curiosity towards new technologies, programming languages, frameworks, etc, is a plus. 

You also have:

3+ years of professional experience with a SPA framework (we mostly use React)

Good knowledge of HTML, CSS/Less/Sass

Great knowledge of Javascript (Typescript would be awesome)

Experience with Javascript testing frameworks (like Jest, Jasmine, Cypress)

Familiarity with RESTful APIs, knowledge of general web concepts such as HTTP, REST

Can write high quality code and tests

Use git effectively

Experience with high-scalability distributed system technologies is a big plus

Skilled in written and verbal English

Good communicator and team player

Curiosity towards new technologies, programming languages, frameworks, etc.

Not afraid to take on hard challenges and dive into unknown territory

Strong problem solver with a structured approach to your working day

Additional Information

You might like working here if...

You love autonomy and the freedom to get your work done the way you want to

You like sharing your thoughts & opinions and have the feeling that they do matter ( a healthy internal culture)

You'll enjoy...

An ambitious international startup and Agile environment

Competitive compensation package

Career and professional development opportunities (workshops, training sessions etc.)

Trips to international design camps, sharing knowledge with professionals from other parts of the world

Flexible working hours

Cool company laptop

Medical Subscription, Meal tickets for each working day, Bookster access

When we used to go to the office, we also had:

Free drinks & snacks daily, fresh fruits

Safe outdoor bike parking spot

Relaxing spots 

Cool team-bonding events such as Team Camps, Hackathons, Game & Field Days,

Welcome Breakfast, Happy Hours, Birthdays Celebrations and more

Friendly and chill working atmosphere overall ♣

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