Software Engineer

We're Highsnobiety! A digital media, global entertainment brand that inspires young men to lead their most stylish and culturally relevant lives by covering news and trends in fashion, sneakers, music, art and entertainment.
Reaching 10+ million users each month. We're an influential and fast growing, award winning media company.
We seek a Front-end Engineer to join our trend-forward and culture-obsessed team. Someone who can help us merge the media and content world with commerce to develop something that has never been seen before.
As a digital-first media company with a global reach and a mindset to match, technology is obviously an integral part of our success story. We’re excited by the potential publishing has in the digital age. Every day we challenge what it means to be a digital publisher, exploring innovative storytelling concepts and formats for the web. From employing data mining to connect e-commerce with our industry-leading content, to changing the known content experience on mobile with unusual yet intuitive navigation concepts, at every stage we’re driven by our commitment to deliver an outstanding product to our readers.

How we work:

Our Tech/Product organization consists of interdisciplinary and self-organized teams. Scrum and Kanban are our methods of choice for transparent and open product management. Every team is continuously delivering software and is closely collaborating with their stakeholders. We organize regular product demos to share our progress, and Hack days to innovate our products. For a transparent and well balanced work culture, the entire department shares their feedback with each other in a bi-weekly retrospective to celebrate successes and to improve methods.
We serve both internal and external users and believe in high standards when building our products. To ensure quality, we apply code reviews, extreme programming practices and test coverage tracking. Also, we follow a “you build it – you run it” approach and deploy our services on Google Cloud Platform using Docker and Kubernetes.
As technology moves fast, it's key for us to invest in our employees' growth. We provide access to the best learning platforms, we run tech workshops, organize regular pair-programming sessions with senior developers and we also sponsor conference visits.

 

Your Mission:

• Maintain, optimize and add new features to our brand new front end
• Help further develop our online shopping experience
• Help create innovative storytelling formats for high-profile clients and our editorial department
• Work closely with designers, product managers and creatives
• Develop hands-on with a creative mind and freedom to shape the user experience

 

Your Skills:

• You're fluent in JavaScript
• English is also one of the languages you are fluent in
• Experience with React.js or similar component-oriented frameworks/libraries
• You're familiar with Node.js
• You're familiar with GraphQL
• You know your way around Git
• You're not afraid of Webpack and can use it to make developer experience better
• You know how to put an application live using a CI (e.g. Circle-CI, Travis, Jenkins, GitHub actions etc)
• You know enough CSS and CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS etc) in order to write readable and maintainable code with it
• Automated testing for you is essential and you know a few tricks on how to improve code testability
• Your Google-Fu is powerful. You know how to find the information needed to write great software
• You understand Front-end goes beyond just the browser. So, even not being an expert, you're not afraid of getting your hands into a bit of Docker/Kubernetes, CloudFlare, AWS, GCP, Bash, Software monitoring tools/data etc.

 

What we offer:

• Support and mentoring by the core platform development team
• Broad spectrum of technological challenges
• Freedom to experiment and work with cutting edge technologies
• Pair programming, hack days, internal talks, growth budget and conference visits
• The unique entrepreneurial opportunity to pro-actively shape a company and help build a global brand
• A bright and spacious Design office, which reflects our brand and focuses on employee well-being, located in the upcoming and vibrant district of Schöneberg.
• Motivating, international and creative work atmosphere
• High degree of responsibility
• Competitive compensation (incl. visa/relocation support)
• Attractive employee benefits (e.g. company events, various discounts)

 

Highsnobiety is a global community of independent-minded creatives & professionals: Every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression or genetic information.