About Wearebrain

Who we are looking for

WeAreBrain is searching for a Front-end Software Engineer to join our team. Our ideal candidate should have a software engineering background with expertise in JavaScript (React) and TypeScript, should live in Amsterdam and will be able to work from our client's office at least two days per week.

Our client is the largest retail group in the Netherlands which owns and operates building materials stores across the Benelux (7 000 employees/341 offline stores/150 000+ products online/around 7 mln active users per month).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with teammates and client’s representatives;
• Actively participate in overall team meetings, architectural design sessions, product meetings, communities of practice, etc.
• Contribute to overall product quality, own and improve the front-end stack;
• Deliver high-quality, testable, and maintainable code;
• Improve existing code quality and delivery approach using best practices;
• Deploy applications on AWS servers using automation services;
• Support and extend existing components library for React applications.

Requirements

Essentials

• 3 years of development experience;
• 2 years of server/client-side logic development experience with JavaScript (React);
• Experience with microfrontend applications/architectures;
• Express, Fastify, and Node experience;
• Chakra UI/Storybook experience;
• Experience in building robust SPAs for advanced UX needs using React and Typescript;
• Experience in state management systems Redux/MobX/React Query and understanding why and when it is necessary to use;
• Experience with react-hook-forms library;
• Practical experience in the creation of highly adaptive and cross-browser layouts (HTML5/CSS3) using CSS preprocessors and following modern approaches; Experience with build tools (Webpack, Babel);
• Experience with Contentful CMS;
• Knowledge of Git and Git Workflows;
• Hands-on experience with popular JS linters usage and other static code analysis tools;
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency is a must.

As a plus

• Experience in building front-end applications with a server-side rendering approach;
• Hands-on experience with unit and E2E tests: Jest, Enzyme, Cypress, etc.
• Experience with Node.js Experience with GraphQL;
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture;
• Practical experience with infrastructure (web servers, cloud services, containerization, UNIX/Linux command line);
• Fluent Ukrainian/Russian will be a plus.

Benefits available to you:

• Benefits available to you: Personal and professional growth in a multicultural environment;
• You will have access to: an educational budget; corporate English lessons with a certified teacher; regular knowledge-sharing sessions;
• A clear view of your performance results within an Agile environment (we maintain a project-based performance management system with which you will track your SMART goals and take ownership for continuous improvement utilising our Professional Development Plan);
• Maintain a healthy work-life balance: 25 vacation days per annum and special paid days off for personal reasons; public holidays according to Dutch legislation; parental leave; pension plan; monthly allowance; Invitations to corporate and team buildings events;
• On an annual basis, we will review all compensation and benefits