Senior Front End Developer

Client

Our client is a Dutch based company which develops the fastest-growing online platform where students can find and compare their education options internationally.

Role

The Senior Front-end Engineer will be a part of the core team that focusses on increasing the quality and user experience of the core of our platforms. Together with your scrum team, and the other engineering teams you will make sure that our platforms are user and value focused. Fully in line with both our Product and Technical strategy and vision.

Virtually, all the systems have been developed in-house and are following modern quality standards. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS. Our Front-ends are powered by VueJS, Node/NPM, TypeScript, Sass, and the necessary technology to ensure fast and user friendly high-traffic websites. All as part of our microservice architecture.

Responsibilities

Improving the overall User Experience of our client biggest portals
Increasing the user engagement within the core functionality of platform. You will be elevating the product value throughout the whole site, to increase user engagement, loyalty, and retention with your (technical) expertise.
Help us to become more scalable as a platform, by decoupling our dependencies and reducing our time to market. Staying in control of our quality is key!

Requirements

About 5-7 years of experience in Web Development
Experience with building applications in JavaScript component-based frameworks (. VueJS, React, or Angular). Modern JavaScript (ES2017), TypeScript, NPM, Webpack, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS.
Experience in building and optimizing high-traffic websites.
Belief in a mobile-first, responsive search-engine-friendly approach to semantic web development.
Good understanding of user-centered design principles and good practices