Senior Frontend Engineer

Welcome to SkillLab

At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has a pathway to employment. We enable and lead a radical change - a focus on skill-based approach to employment services. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient labor markets by empowering people to turn their skills into careers. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 25+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.

Your opportunity

• You will experience the culture of a technology start-up and work in an international environment with SkillLabers from 25+ countries.
• You will be applying your experiences in developing the browser-based components of a large and growing software platform based on React and targeting both mobile and desktop experiences.
• You will provide technical leadership and write code for new and existing features and components in close collaboration our all our other developers, UX, QA, Ops and Product owners.
• You should be able to operate independently to produce complex UI flows using our existing component frameworks, extend and create new components and features and contribute to the overall health of our codebase and it's test suite.

Your team

You will join our engineering team as our new frontend engineer! The engineering team is led by Aaron.

SkillLabers who make the engineering team awesome are:

• Barry, Nubar, Lala, Yasser, Nubar, and Refai as our backend engineers.
• Ivana, Kilani, Ibraheem, Nouraldin and Mojtaba as front-end engineers.
• Gaspar as our full-stack engineer and domain lead.
• Luiza and Nathany who take care of our QA processes.
• Hamza who is managing our DevOps work.

What you will do

• Actively engage in planning and scoping activities
• Writing code that meets high-quality technical standards and needs minimal improvements after QA (quality assurance) processes
• Writing code documentation and designing documents that can be easily understood by others
• Providing reviews in a way that allows other developers to improve their code
• Contributing to unit and integration tests
• Positively contributing to our codebase beyond implementing product features
• Delivering releases on time with clear documentation, meeting stakeholder expectations and product roadmap goals

Requirements

Is this you?

• 5-8 years of web development experience in React or similar frameworks
• Possesses strong coding architecture patterns
• Experience with testing suites
• A demonstrated design sense and ability to translate designs to implementations at the component and entire view levels.
• Strong understanding of git based version control, project management tools such as Jira and Agile team style software development practices
• You are comfortable taking a lead on architecting and planning development for major features. Furthermore, you are also enthusiastic to support and mentor others.
• You have a learning mindset and bring the drive and curiosity to tackle new coding challenges.
• Fluency in English

Extra awesome

• A demonstrated strong understanding of localization and accessibility concerns
• Good working knowledge of Next.js, Remix or other frameworks with strong support for server-side rendering
• Experience in managing bandwidth and designing for clients on slower networks or with older phones

Benefits

Salary, start-date & location

• We use a salary benchmark for the Dutch high-tech sector to set your salary based on your experience. We expect that the annual gross salary for the experience we are looking for ranges from €60k-€85k per year.
• We strongly prefer on-site candidates who live in Amsterdam or the Netherlands. However, we are open to remote applicants who will make intermittent trips to Amsterdam from cities within the Netherlands.
• We accept applications on a rolling basis, and we envision a start date in August 2024.

Benefits

• You will enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year (20 days as the statutory minimum holiday entitlement in the Netherlands plus 5 extra days from SkillLab).
• You can work flexibly both from our office in Amsterdam or remotely within the Netherlands. You can also extend your holiday stay in a different country and work from abroad for a limited period of time.
• You will get an extensive relocation support to move to Amsterdam including visa sponsorship, 30% ruling application, your plane tickets, covered real estate agent fees, first 2-weeks of hotel accommodation etc.
• You will have a personal learning budget to invest in your professional development.
• You will have access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
• You will have access to a monthly flexible budget of benefits via Yourcampus app. You can spend this budget on a large selection of providers, ranging from gym memberships to bike subscriptions and online stores.
• You will join our bi-annual company offsite retreats in different locations like Belgium, Germany etc.

What else to know?

• SkillLab is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion at the workplace. We welcome applications of candidates from all backgrounds.
• This is our tech stack and how we build technology with impact. (Product Snippets: Building Technology with Impact - SkillLab )
• Get 3 tips for your job application at SkillLab (SkillLab Life: Three Tips for your Job Application - SkillLab )