Senior Frontend Engineer

Contribute to a scalable platform where soon 1 million entrepreneurs worldwide will create their own website.

Job description

Your role

At JouwWeb (internationally known as Webador), we help small business owners worldwide build a professional website or webshop they are proud of. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will work on the technical side of our frontend, ensuring our application is ready for the next growth phase. You will focus on improving our frontend architecture, modernizing legacy code, building new features, and optimizing performance and tooling. You will work in a small, experienced product team where your ideas directly impact the platform, making a difference for over 275,000 users. At JouwWeb, we aim to grow and help 1,000,000 entrepreneurs have a website by 2030. Are you up for the challenge?

Your daily tasks include:

• Improving frontend architecture and cleaning up legacy code
• Building new features in React, (vanilla) TypeScript, and JavaScript
• Profiling and solving performance issues in the browser and UI
• Improving our developer tooling and build pipelines
• Evolving the Editor that allows our customers to design and build their websites

Our Tech Stack

• Typescript
• React
• Stimulus, Turbo
• Less
• PHP (Symfony)

Job requirements

Who are we looking for?

• You have HBO/WO level of education
• You have at least 5 years of experience in developing complex web applications
• You are proficient in TypeScript, React, and HTML/CSS fundamentals
• You have strong communication skills and work well in a hybrid, asynchronous environment
• You are pragmatic, analytical, and think conceptually about architecture
• You are available for 32–40 hours per week
• You identify with our core values

What do you get in return?

• A competitive salary between € 5,000 and € 6,200 based on knowledge and experience, and a bonus scheme.
• An education budget of 5% of your annual salary.
• A good pension plan without personal contribution.
• We meet every Friday during the team day at the office, and the rest of the week you choose where you work best, at home or in the office.
• A professional yet informal work environment with a flat organizational structure and no unnecessary meetings.
• On top of that, we offer nice perks when achieving company goals. Think of surprises, outings, and other bonuses!

About JouwWeb (and Webador)
With JouwWeb, small business owners can easily create a professional website or webshop they are proud of. New AI applications in our tool make starting a website a breeze! Our company is located in Strijp-S in Eindhoven. We are ambitious and growing rapidly, thanks in part to Webador, our international brand. Over 275,000 small business owners worldwide use the premium version of our service and are quite enthusiastic about it. By reaching more customers, we increase the impact we make on entrepreneurship worldwide. Our dream goal is to have 1,000,000 customers by 2030. Despite our growth, we have a relatively small team of 45 colleagues and aim to make as much impact individually as possible!

We like to keep things simple, both in our product and process. We work data-driven and enjoy validating hypotheses with experiments. We have few meetings; our team works with focus and tranquility on important improvements.

If you have any questions about this job opening, send a message to our Lead Developer Koen via Kivits@jouwweb.nl.