Front-end Engineer

Company Description

About Wehkamp
Wehkamp believes in combining fashion and lifestyle in a smart way with online technology and a great shopping experience, in order to offer a relevant and inspiring platform to its customers and partners. We are ambitious! We must be, with 2.9 million regular customers and about 600.000 visitors a day. In our assortment you will find more than 300.000 different products and over 2.500 brands. 75% of our customers shop on a mobile device; mainly through the app.

About Wehkamp Tech
With over 100 tech colleagues from all over the world we work on offering a relevant assortment at the right time. We use many technologies to accomplish this, like microservices in containers and functions as a service. We also collect a lot of data that we use to train our machine learning algorithms. We encourage everyone to think ahead and find smart new ways to use online technology to offer our customers the best experience. Technological innovation is not only crucial for the best shopping experience but it also plays a key role in the logistic processes.

We are looking for you to realize our potential, join the Wehkamp Tech Hub now!

Job Description

As a Front-end engineer you work on the Wehkamp e-commerce platform that millions of customers use 24 hours a day. As part of a cross-functional team, you help build new features, improve existing processes and think about setting up architectures. Performance, cross-browser and cross-device development are facets that you take into account and you also regularly consult with the other front-end developers to share knowledge and help with pull requests/code reviews.

Qualifications

What is important:
You are an intelligent and analytically strong Front-end Engineer with at least 3 years of experience. HTML, CSS, Javascript and React (or a similar framework, such as Angular or Vue.js) have no secrets for you. You think testing is an important part of your job. You have a focus on performance, a good feeling for UX/design and you dare to challenge where necessary. Working from home is not an obstacle for you and you can quickly find your direct colleagues via the Hangout or Slack. Having experience with Redux and/or GraphQL is a plus, just like having the DevOps mentality. Our market is always on the move.
It is important in this position that you speak both the Dutch and English language well.

What we offer you:

You become part of the Wehkamp Tech Hub. Working at the Tech Hub means working in an innovative and inspiring high-tech working environment. In our new head office, the Wehkamp Tech Hub has its own environment with plenty of room for collaboration, learning from each other and presenting results.

Please check out: https://medium.com/wehkamp-techblog

Other benefits

• Possibility to work mostly remote;
• A competitive salary based on education level and work experience;
• 10,5% holiday money allowance;
• 25 holiday days;
• Onsite gym;
• Pension scheme;
• Discounts on additional health insurance;
• Room for growth;
• And, of course, staff discount in our webshop.

Additional Information

Transparency is very important in the application process. After you expressed your interest with your application, you will immediately receive a link to a personal status page, in which you can find your status of your application and all communication.

What happens after your application?

• Do your expectations and our wishes match? Then we would like to get to know you.
• When we both are positive, we'll invite you for a meeting with the Tech Lead;
• Next we will invite you for a meeting with important stakeholders;
• After these conversations you will hear from us as soon as possible whether we see you as our colleague. In that case we will make you an offer. If that is not the case, you will of course receive good feedback from us that you can use.