Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer

Summary

Join Urbantz, a company revolutionizing last-mile delivery, as a skilled Software Engineer. Contribute to building a complex, multiservice application handling millions of packages annually. Collaborate closely with product managers, prioritize tasks, provide estimates, and brainstorm solutions. Participate in technical support, resolving customer issues and fixing bugs. Work in short agile cycles, balancing product and technical work, primarily using TypeScript, Angular, NodeJS, and other specified technologies. The role requires at least 5 years of relevant experience, proficiency in TypeScript, remote work experience, and a positive, collaborative mindset. Urbantz offers a competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, professional development opportunities, and team events.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience, preferably in a product company
• A positive mindset and like to find ways to constantly improve in what you do
• You have worked remotely before. You can work alone, but you shine when you work together. Pair programming, mob programming, brainstorming... you have no issue expressing your ideas, thoughts, and comments
• You value the quality of your work. You know that any shortcut you take today will be a debt to pay in the future (but you understand sometimes taking them makes sense)
• You consider testing part of the job, not an afterthought
• You know how to build a scalable, maintainable application
• You stay abreast of developments and best practices within the technologies we use
• Proficiency in TypeScript
• You reside in Europe, in a time zone close to one of the Urbantz HQ (CET), and within ±4 hours of travel so that we can fly you in twice a year for our on-site team events
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the building of a modern, highly complex, multiservice application that leads to the delivery of millions of packages per year to clients
• Work closely with our product manager, help them prioritize by giving rough estimates of the effort things would take, and helping them come up with ideas on how to address customer needs
• Participate in our technical support rotation, helping our support colleagues unblock customers by answering questions and fixing bugs
• Write, remove, and review code

Preferred Qualifications

• Affinity with the logistic sector
• Experience in Python

Benefits

• Work where you choose: our fancy offices in the center of Brussels, your spare bedroom, a cabin in the woods… you decide
• Autonomy to define and navigate your own path to success
• A competitive salary, the right tools, and a range of fringe benefits depending on your country's location
• An incredibly diverse international team and a company culture that encourages freedom, creativity, and collaboration
• Opportunities to grow your expertise through training, workshops, and conferences
• Team meetups in Brussels, an annual off-site somewhere sunny