Lead Front-End Engineer

Vanderlande provides baggage handling systems for 600 airports around the globe, capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. For the parcel market, our systems handle 52 million parcels per day. All these systems generate data. Do you see a challenge in building data-driven services for our customers using that data? Do you want to contribute to the fast-growing Vanderlande Technology Department on its journey to become more data-driven? If so, then join our Digital Service Factory team!

Your Position

We are looking for a skilled lead Front-End Engineer to join our team and help us develop the MyVanderlande customer web portal. This hybrid and multicultural team has members located in The Netherlands and India. The portal is a responsive web application that provides actionable information to our customers by combining information from multiple channels (ERP, CMS & PDM). Your responsibility is to build and maintain the front end of the customer web portal.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop our responsive web application that works well on a variety of screen resolutions and browsers.
• Develop new features for our products and services which provide our customers with actionable information through multiple channels.
• Participate in end-to-end development through prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and further iterations.
• Actively contribute to continuous integration efforts and improvements in our way of working.
• Collaborate with UX designers to develop appealing and intuitive interfaces based on graphic designs or mock-ups.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Ensure code and design quality through code reviews and testing.
• Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and proper integration of front-end features.
• Stay up to date with new front-end technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field.
• Proven experience as a Front-End Engineer with a focus on developing responsive web applications.
• Proven experience in leading a team of front-end engineering experts, managing stakeholder relations, change management, and project management skills are preferred.
• You have recent experience with Angular 12+, Typescript, RxJS, NgRx/Redux, Web Performance, Web Workers, HTML5 (+ markdown), CSS/SCSS.
• Cloud experience with one or more major cloud providers – Azure preferable.
• Strong understanding of declarative-, reactive-, object-oriented programming, web standards, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility.
• You have experience with developer tooling: Git (bitbucket), WSL, container technologies (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes.
• You have experience with and/or skills in UX design/development.
• You have experience using and contributing to a design system.
• You know how to develop secure front-end applications and are familiar with OAuth2.
• Nice to have skills:
  • GraphQL
  • CMS (Contentful)
  • Cypress/Playwright
  • DevOps tooling for test automation and CI/CD.
  • Understanding of back-end development in Java.
  • Understand how to translate front-end needs to back-end requirements and vice versa?
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

What we offer

In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international, and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• On-site company health centers with a gym, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with a barista.

Contact

If you are a talented and motivated Front-End Engineer with a passion for developing responsive web applications, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

For more information about the position, please contact astha.singh@vanderlande.com

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.