Senior Frontend Engineer

Here at Choco, we like to use the space shuttle as a metaphor for our engineering work. Now, you will join and help us bring the shuttle to the moon. We are just launching our new cross-functional team focusing on implementing a business-critical payment product and all related functionalities across our mobile and web platforms. Your main objective will be to build a payment product’s web frontend from scratch within the team. You will take end to end ownership for delivering the solution, ensuring it’s user-friendly, stable and performant. We will rely on your technical expertise, web architecture skills and collaboration to move both the product and the team closer to our goals.

On a daily basis you will: 

• Work in a cross-functional team in an agile environment together with a lead engineer, product manager, product designer, backend engineer, mobile engineers and QA.

• Implement modern frontend solutions in ReactJS based on a micro frontends (!) approach.

• Collaborate closely with your product designer, keep the user in mind and create an attractive UI.

• Operate and the services your team owns in order to meet our user's expectations

• Share your knowledge in your team and in our Frontend Chapter, develop expertise in our product and grow with your team to become an even greater engineer.

Our tech stack in Frontend Engineering

We have a cutting-edge environment and use ReactJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, Cypress, Jest, Styled Components, Micro-frontends and our infrastructure is powered by AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline and AWS S3. 


What you will need to have an impact with us

• 5+ years experience as a frontend developer, with at least 2+ years of experience in delivering web solutions with ReactJS

• You are fluent in Javascript, ES6, Typescript and keen on trying out new technologies

• Experience with working with testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress

• Proven experience with cloud providers and in building resilient and scalable infrastructure

• Know how to write clean code, apply design patterns and unit testing

• Ability to drive and deliver large features and projects spanning across multiple sprints.

• Ability to identify, articulate issues and take ownership for delivering practical solutions, while prioritizing tasks effectively.

• Strong communication skills combined with influence and eagerness to share and develop others

• Good learning ability, open-mindedness and good self-organizational skills will be absolutely key to the success of your work and the business overall. 

You will impress us even more if you have

• Experience with AWS services

• Experience working with NoSQL databases

• Experience with GraphQL or AppSync

• Experience working with Serverless architecture

• Experience building real-time communication

• Experience building chatbots

• Experience with Payment solutions and integrations