Lead Frontend Engineer

About Transferz & the role
At Transferz, we cater to the diverse needs of thousands of travelers, both corporate and leisure. Transferz's mission is to provide true peace of mind to all parties involved in ground transportation: travelers, travel brands, and our transfer companies. With coverage in 150+ countries, 800+ airports and more than 1.500 transfer companies in the network, Transferz is truly global. Travelers can complete their travel plans with door-to-door transfers by selecting the transfer they want, based on vehicle type and price, and enjoy peace of mind on the first and last mile of their journeys. We have the ambition to become the market leader in ground transportation worldwide. Our team has grown significantly over the past year, and we're keen to establish the management layer allowing us to continue our high-growth trajectory.

We believe it’s the people that make the business and we are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in creating an open, transparent, motivating, inspiring and fun working environment. We have a typical scale-up culture, growing fast, hard-working and have huge ambitions.

What we’re looking for
As our Lead Frontend Engineer you will drive the technical vision for how we build React-based frontend applications as well as our GraphQL interface layer in NodeJS. and how they interact with our technical ecosystem; ranging from traveller and driver apps to back office portals used by transfer companies, reselling partners and our internal teams.

You'll work with cross-functional teams, setting the architectural direction and leading engineers to deliver innovative solutions at pace in close collaboration with product managers and designers. Your contributions will evolve and level-up our systems to allow us to ship fast and deploy/scale confidently - your work is an example to peers and you will actively drive quality through code reviews to ensure that code meets our high standards and ensure they will remain up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in frontend development.

Additionally, you will facilitate frontend chapter meetings and will be closely involved in the hiring process to ensure we staff (the frontend) team with top-talent.

We work in a (relatively) small team with sky-high aspirations. As such, your efforts have a tangible, visible impact on the success of our company. You will report to the Head of Engineering. This is a full-time position with the possibility of working part time (minimum 32 hours). As we greatly value collaboration with peers, you will work primarily from our easily accessible Amsterdam office. As such, we are only accepting applications from candidates currently living in The Netherlands and have a valid working permit.

We believe it’s the people that make the business and we are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in creating an open, transparent, motivating, inspiring and fun working environment.

We are a tech company in hearts and minds, but understand that technology is just a means to serve our partners and travellers. Passion, teamwork, and informal communication are the basis to create a successful experience that allows every traveller to enjoy peace of mind. With true global coverage, Transferz is a multilingual and multinational company and believes in fostering diversity.

Our platform
The Transferz microservice platform consists of 25+ independent microservices built on Spring Boot (3.2+). We utilize GitHub for version control and have completely set up our CI/CI pipeline using GitHub Actions. Our strict quality control gateways enforced during pull requests (peer review, code styling, static code analysis, unit & integration test coverage) ensure our applications stay healthy - all services have >90% code coverage on automated tests. Our frontends are built on React and interact with the microservice platform through GraphQL (NodeJS).

Note for recruiters: acquisition based on this job posting is not appreciated

We believe you’re suited for the role when you:

• have at least 7 years experience in a frontend development role, of which at least 4 years with React and 1 year leading other frontend engineers

• have a high-level of working proficiency in English

• are friendly, communicative and comfortable interacting across functions with stakeholders in- and outside the company

• are a champion for engineering excellence and demonstrate accountability for your own and your teams output quality

• thrive in an informal office working atmosphere with driven and ambitious peers

• have expert knowledge on pure JavaScript (ES2017), HTML and CSS/SCSS

• are fluent in Typescript and have expert knowledge on NodeJS and modern software architecture principles;

• besides React, have a thorough understanding (on the benefits and drawbacks) of other frameworks such as React-Native, Vue and Angular

• have a solid understanding of software design principles and patterns to build maintainable applications

• have extensive experience with test automation tooling, including but not limited to JEST, Mocha and Cypress

• live in the greater Amsterdam area (i.e. within 1 hour travel distance)

We can offer you:

• a full-time position with the possibility of working part-time (minimum 32 hours)

• a market-competitive salary with secondary benefits (such as our bicycle leasing scheme)

• 50 EUR per month credit allowance to choose your own benefit on Alleo

• a truly diverse and international work environment where you can be yourself and grow your skills through feedback

• all the tools you’ll need to excel; both hardware and software

• flexible working hours, office-based (limited possibilities for remote working)