Senior Software Engineer - Frontend (all genders)

Company Description

Our mission started more than 20 years ago, where we dedicated ourselves to creating moments of happiness between pets and pet parents across 30 European countries. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each  🐶🐈 

Job Description

We're now looking for an awesome Senior Frontend Software Engineer to help us ensure that we deliver good quality products to our customers and colleagues (internal users). You will have a pivotal role in ensuring that there is an increase of collaboration & engagement from all our Zooplus customers.

The team is responsible of the CMS related content appearing in the Zooplus website, providing a way to communicate the Headless CMS with the Website and providing updated content in the different domains. The team is also responsible of the HomePage, the Footer and the Static Landing pages appearing on the site. Also we handle some custom extensions in the CMS and all the scripting related to handling of the persistence on the CMS.

As a Senior Front End Software Engineer, you will play an important role in introducing new technologies and ways of working to stay ahead of the competition, without ever compromising on quality. You will contribute and collaborate with other engineers on technical and architectural decisions, and enjoy end-to-end DevOps ownership mindset. Additionally, you will also develop your cross-functional skills as you get to work on cool projects with the latest tech, all whilst working with a talented, diverse and friendly group of people.

Here are some of really cool fun things about our identity and culture as a team:

• Scrum is our way of work, and we feel like agile environment it is not only inside the team, our managers also resonate with this mentality and the organization is totally aligned with its values
• The environment is very friendly and sometimes we do some activities together after work and with other teams. Forget the shirt and ties as there are no strict dress code here!
• We are used to do pair programming which is a lot of fun, getting to know your colleagues and learning from your them, this way we can share increase the knowledge sharing aspect between us which is a really useful methodologies for all new comers
• The daily tasks are related to developing new greenfield features and maintaining existing products whilst improving all the infrastructure we need for it, so a cross-functional mindset is embedded in our working ways.
• We like to learn and deliver good quality products and for that we think that continuous delivery, clean code and DevOps mindset is the best way to own and deliver it.
• English is the official language of the company, but we have international colleagues who totally feel at home here and we also synchronize with other teams located in Krakow or Munich. Being able to communicate fluently in English is a must, as a bonus we also provide Spanish classes for people who want to feel more at home here in Spain.

Most of our event based backend microservices are built in Java but we're also planning to move to Kotlin and we use cutting edge React framework in the frontend. Here are some of the cutting-edge technologies/frameworks/practices we utilise:

• React
• Typescript
• NextJS
• Node.js
• CI/CD
• InfluxDB, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Kibana, Sensu
• Kubernetes, Docker
• Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (Lambdas,S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB), using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Pull Request, Peer Reviewing

Qualifications

• English at working language level
• 5+ years of experience in software development
• Experience using frontend frameworks (like React, Angular, Vue)
• Open minded to be involved in non frontend stuff
• Willing to use clean code principles
• You are interested in DevOps philosophy of "you build it, you run it"

Additional Information

With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 10 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues in different locations remotely or face-to-face at the office.

Our benefits:
🐾 20% discount in our zooplus shop
📖 Internal and external training
🎈 Team