Lead Front-End Engineer (Customer Portal-Digital Service Platform)

Join the Digital Service Platform Team at Vanderlande

Introduction

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 Platform (DSP) team! You will join the predictive maintenance team, where you will work with data scientists, software engineers, data engineers and UX designers to build solutions enabling our customers and on-site teams to optimize maintenance and asset performance.

Your Position

As Lead Front-End Engineer, you will play a critical dual role:

• Technical Expert
• Own the front-end architecture of the entire DSP platform, comprised of micro-frontends, integrating functionality and data from teams across the department in a single platform.
• Build and deliver frontend solutions for the predictive maintenance team, acting as a technical leader in the team.
• Drive the implementation of best-in-class web engineering practices, performance, and scalability.
• Technical Competence Leader
• Set the technical direction for front-end across multiple teams and products for a team of 5 professionals.
• Act as the go-to expert for front-end strategy, architecture, and maintainability.
• Guide and mentor front-end engineers across the platform.
• Lead the Front-End Guild: aligning standards, promoting reusability, and driving technical consistency.
• Partner with architects, product owners, designers, and engineering leads to influence product direction and ensure cohesive solutions.
• Be a champion for user experience, modern tooling, and maintainable design systems.

This is not just a development role — this is a leadership position with broad influence across the Digital Service Platform. You’ll have a seat at the table, and your voice will shape the future of customer-facing software at Vanderlande.

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 similar.
• Proven experience as a Lead Front-End Engineer in Agile environments – working in or closely with Scrum or Kanban teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills – able to align technical direction across teams, and explain decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent change management and project management skills regarding new tool- or technology introductions or experience with NPI also a plus.
• Recent experience with Angular 15+, 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.
• Experience with developer tooling: Git (bitbucket), WSL, container technologies (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes.
• Experience with and/or skills in UX design/development.
• Experience using and contributing to a design system.
• Knowledge of how to develop secure front-end applications and familiarity with OAuth2.
• A track record of mentoring developers and elevating team capability.
• Nice to have skills:
• GraphQL
• CMS (Contentful)
• Cypress/Playwright
• DevOps tooling for test automation and CI/CD.
• Understanding of back-end development in Java.
• Ability to translate front-end needs to back-end requirements and vice versa.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

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.

This position offers a competitive salary range of €6,228 to €7,396 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:

• 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 centres 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 barista.