Senior Front-End Engineer - Financial Services Tribe

<p>At <strong>Moss</strong>, we help companies spend smarter. We’re a place where aspiring, adaptable quick-thinkers thrive, and we’re set to become the next leading spend management platform in the European FinTech industry.</p> <p>Our <strong>Accounting Tribe</strong> is seeking a <strong>Senior Frontend Engineer</strong> (f/m/d) to simplify pre-accounting workflows and automation for a key user group, accountants. Collaborating closely with designers and backend engineers, you will bring innovative ideas to life, ensuring our product provides a delightful user-friendly experience and empowers accountants with intuitive and efficient tools. </p> <p><strong>Your responsibilities</strong></p> <p>Here's a bit more on what you can expect to be doing day-to-day:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Frontend Development:</strong> Lead the development of the frontend application, ensuring it aligns with the approved designs and meets performance and usability standards. Proactively provide regular updates on work progress, achievements and challenges to product managers (PMs) and designers. </li> <li><strong>Collaborative Planning:</strong> Partner with PMs and designers during project kick-offs to gain a comprehensive understanding of the overall vision, user needs, and goals. Provide valuable insights to refine UI/UX concepts and contribute to the planning of frontend development.</li> <li><strong>Backend Collaboration: </strong>Collaborate closely with backend engineers to determine required APIs and backend functionality. Maintain clear communication channels to ensure smooth integration of frontend and backend components. </li> <li><strong>Testing and Quality Assurance:</strong> Produce well tested and reliable code. Writing unit and functional (end-to-end) tests<strong> </strong></li> <li><strong>Rollout and Performance Monitoring: </strong>Collaborate with product managers to devise efficient rollout strategies for new features. Monitor frontend performance and user feedback to identify areas for improvement and proactively address potential issues.</li> </ul> <p><strong>About you</strong></p> <p>We think you’ll need the following <strong>experience and qualifications</strong> to succeed in this role: </p> <ul> <li>Proven experience as a Frontend Engineer, working on complex UI-heavy applications.</li> <li>Proficiency in frontend development technologies, latest features and best practices such as React/TypeScript, as well as front-end development design patterns and techniques. </li> <li>Hands-on experience with frontend testing approaches and libraries (i.e. Testing Library, visual snapshot testing). </li> <li>Understanding of Rest API design principles.</li> <li>You are fluent in English</li> </ul> <p>In addition, here are the <strong>skills and attributes</strong> we are looking for:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Pragmatic Tech Enthusiast:</strong> You have the theoretical and practical background to engineer our product. You pursue quality and scalability and follow industry and company best practices. You build systems that are easy to maintain and to understand by others.</li> <li><strong>Delivery Focused:</strong> You understand and focus on what is important to deliver the most impact. This means accurate development and delivery estimations, ruthless prioritization and saying no to less important things. You are driven to deliver tangible outcomes within estimated timelines, and you swiftly tackle challenges, and provide clear direction to others.</li> <li><strong>Collaborative Communicator:</strong> You convey information effectively to a variety of audiences, and actively participate in daily meetings, keeping others informed about your progress and status. You’re able to form trustworthy connections by creating and maintaining open communication with colleagues throughout the development process.</li> <li><strong>Inquisitive Mindset:</strong> You seek to develop a deep domain knowledge by proactively seeking to understand accounting customer workflows and technical intricacies. You’re curious and unafraid to question assumptions and propose alternative approaches, ensuring the product is tailored to meet customer needs. </li> <li><strong>Team Player</strong>: You bring a team together to work towards a shared goal, as well as support individuals throughout all phases of a project.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our offer</strong></p> <p>We believe the greatest benefit we can offer you is the opportunity to develop your skills and progress your career - we’d like to help you on that journey. Here's what else you can expect:</p> <ul> <li>An attractive compensation package, including our company stock option plan.</li> <li>An annual learning budget of 600 euros</li> <li>Unlimited access to our mental health and wellbeing offering, including 1-on-1 coaching sessions</li> <li>3 months work from abroad</li> </ul> <p><strong>About Moss</strong></p> <p>Moss is a SaaS business founded in Berlin. In less than three years we have built