Experienced React Developer

at  Teamleader

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Role: Front-End Software Engineer
• Scope: Responsible for architecting, developing and improving the front-end, user-facing aspect for our product Teamleader Focus.
• Location: Ghent, Belgium / Remote (within 1-2 hours of BE timezone)
• Timing: ASAP

AS AN EXPERIENCED SOFTWARE ENGINEER (FRONTEND) AT TEAMLEADER:

• You are a key member of a feature team and responsible for providing the front-end, user-facing aspect of a feature or initiative. You turn functional challenges and acceptance criteria into skilfully crafted and accessible UI solutions.
• Not only that, but you use your experience to pinpoint bugs, bad coding patterns, identify risks and come up with solutions.
• Once you get used to the Teamleader way of doing things, you make suggestions to improve the process and code quality.
• You participate in technical design discussions, both within your team and with other teams, to come up with solutions for common problems.
• You coach more junior developers through pair programming sessions, code reviews… or just by asking them the right questions.
• Furthermore, you maintain a critical eye towards potential API improvements.
• You monitor the build, test and deploy pipeline to make sure your team’s work ends up in our customers’ hands swiftly and adequately

• You have around 5 years of experience as a software developer, and you have demonstrable experience in product development or identical experience in other companies.
• You have in-depth, hands-on experience with modern web development frameworks, preferably React, and/or as a thorough understanding of Single Page Applications built using Typescript. Other relevant frameworks: Angular and Vue.js.
• You use your experience to pinpoint bugs, do root cause analysis, detect bad coding patterns, identify risks and come up with skillfully crafted (template) solutions.
• You are a craftsperson which takes pride in code quality, excellence of delivery, documentation and refactors.
• You run feasibility checks on multiple ideas or potential solutions and help prioritizing within the team.
• Strong bonus points: experience in SaaS product design and delivery, some PHP knowledge or Python experience. If you prefer full-stack, we’ll happily accommodate.
• You are a team player, of course, but are also not afraid to speak your mind strongly and convincingly to get your point across.
• You have good communication skills, able to express yourself fluently and friendly in English, spoken and written.
• You aspire technical excellence but are able to balance this with pragmatic reasoning.
• You ensure the stability and quality of the product’s functionality by creating and maintaining automated end-to-end tests in Playwright.
• You are able to express yourself fluently and friendly in English, spoken and written.