Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Remote)

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join our Team and bring to life new features and support the move of our services and products to modern architecture. You will be working closely with Product Owner, Area Architect and your team members clarifying business needs and technical requirements and defining how to support them in the best way. In close collaboration with other teams, your team will introduce new features and improvements for the CMS related content appearing in the company’s website to provide better experience for more than 11 millions of our customers!

As our Senior Frontend Software Engineer:

• with your Team and Product Owner, you will be working in a challenging Agile environment in close collaboration with other teams;
• you will participate in team’s technical/architectural discussions and decisions;
• you will develop and continuously deliver applications for one of the most successful pet e-commerce platforms in Europe;
• you will participate in the complete software development life cycle from discovery through coding, testing, deployment and maintenance;
• You will learn and grow your skills daily, striving for mastery using state-of-the-art technologies and practices such as AWS, Microservices, Docker, and more.

Project Overview:

Our primary responsibility is to manage the CMS related content appearing in the company’s website, providing a way to communicate the Headless CMS with the Website and providing updated content in the different domains. The team is also responsible of the HomePage, the Footer and the Static Landing pages appearing on the site. Also we handle some custom extensions in the CMS and all the scripting related to handling of the persistence on the CMS.

These are some of the technologies/frameworks/practices we use:

• React

• Typescript

• NextJS

• Node.js

• Jest, Playwright

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline

• InfluxDB, Grafana, Sensu, ELK stack

• Kubernetes, Docker

• Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.), using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI

• Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Peer Reviewing

Requirements:

• Great verbal and written communication skills

• 5+ years of experience in software development

• Strong JavaScript skills

• Strong Styling skills

• Experience working with Typescript

• Engineering mindset (how to solve problems with simple and efficient solutions, applying best practices like clean code…)

• Experience with React, Vue, Angular or any similar framework

• You are able to understand full architecture landscape and be able technically to investigate and implement new features independently

• Being responsible for the quality of the solution you deliver is natural for you. You have experience with unit-testing and Test-Driven Development;

• Interested in growing as a software engineer participating in the whole development cycle (frontend, backend, testing, DevOps)

• You are able mentor less experience colleagues, structure and clarify requirements for them;

• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships

Nice to have

• Experience working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values & principles

• Experience with Next.js

• Experience with AWS or other cloud provider (Infrastructure as Code and DevOps mindset)

• Experience in e-commerce domain

Responsibilities:

• Participate in solution investigation, estimations, planning, alignment with other teams.

• Work closely with UI/UX, Product Owner and API backend engineers to build customizable components to allow users to personalize the content in our CMS Contentful.

• Partner with the product and design teams to understand user needs and translate them into high-quality content solutions and features.

• Participate in on-going discussions and contribute ideas that speak to project objectives like design, user experience, development, testing solutions, and tools.

• Promote and implement tests automation (e.g: unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests and performance tests)

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, development, and deployment.

• Deploy applications on the cloud, using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform.

• Work closely with the team in an agile and collaborative environment. This will involve activities such as code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing, and incident coordination.

• Maintain existing applications and reduce technical debt

Why this position:

Here are several aspects of our team and work environment that contributes to a positive and fulfilling experience:

• We work in self-organized teams following Scrum methodology, respecting and valuing everyone´s opinion.

• We learn from each other and share knowledge, through pair programming, code reviews, and many training opportunities.

• We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products and improving all the infrastructure we need for it, so we also would like to have a colleague that likes to be cross-functional.

• We are committed to delivering high-quality products, and believe that continuous delivery, clean code, and a DevOps mindset are key to achieving this goal.

• Our team values a friendly and collaborative environment, and we greatly encourage open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame, instead working together to build and maintain the system.

• We embrace diversity, having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English.