Senior FrontEnd Engineer (#3174)

Our customer is the European online car market, with over 30 million monthly users and a presence in 18 countries. As a Senior FrontEnd Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of existing services (e.g., bug fixes, security updates, improvements in Java, Scala, and TypeScript)
• Building new APIs and web applications 
• Migrating legacy services to new technologies 
• Creating and managing online ads for private users (Web)
• Running user profile services to store and manage user data
• Be able to communicate with UX Designer to challenge hard-to-implement design elements and agree with them on lower-effort alternatives

Requirements:

• Must-Have:
• Proficiency with React and TypeScript for web application development over the last 1-2 years
• Good knowledge of JavaScript event handling 
• Strong HTML and CSS skills
• Fluent English (at least Upper-Intermediate level)
• Nice to have:
• Experience with Docker/containers and AWS Lambda
• Experience with Kafka AWS
• Experience with Java/Spring Boot for building APIs and web applications
• Experience with REST
• Previous work experience with the relation Database and DynamoDB

Team Setup & Work Style:

• Agile methodology using Jira (product and tech backlog)
• Using Test-driven Development Methodology 
• Slack for communication
• Team size: 5-8 developers, PM, UX designer, and  QA support (part-time involvement);  
• “You build it, you run it” approach (owning development, releases, and monitoring)
• Peer code reviews with quality checks 

Project Tech stack:
JavaScript, React, Java, Spring Boot, Scala, AWS, TypeScript