Senior Front-end Developer

at  DPG Media

Amsterdam - In this role as a senior frontend developer you will help create the best experience for delivering news to millions of users.
Our Selectives development teams create the best user experience for our premium publishing brands: De Volkskrant, Trouw, Het Parool, De Morgen, HUMO, Margriet, Libelle and Flair. We are building and running a white-label platform for all these brands including web, mobile, tablets, and backend. You will join one of our 6 teams and build technology with Next.js and Typescript.

WHO YOU ARE

For this position, we expect a senior level of maturity and some years of experience with high traffic websites. Naturally asking questions and proactively giving suggestions to see where you can add value. We’re looking for someone who likes taking initiative with a collaborative attitude. You have deep knowledge of:

• React
• Next.js
• Typescript

And experience with:

• Storybook
• Monorepo
• Jest / Playwright
• Nodejs
• WAI (Accessibility)

You’ll be working in a full-stack team, both web and app development, to deliver new features like podcast pages, playlists or article enrichments. Everything to enrich the experience for our visitors and enable the editorial team to bring the news in the best possible way. You will also be working together with other front-end developers from different teams.

Currently we’re working at the office every Thursday. Most other days we work remotely.While building new web frontend features for our platform you will always strive for the best code quality and apply the necessary security measures. You will also work closely with the Product Owner, our (UX) designers and business stakeholders. Your main tasks are:

• You build it, you run it: designing, coding, testing, deploying, implementing new features and doing day-to-day operations for all our websites
• Identify bottlenecks and improve the system to make it more robust, scalable and work fluently.
• Share knowledge with our other web frontend developers and together make sure our platform grows and moves in the right direction