Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Pleo as a Senior Frontend Engineer and leverage your expertise in modern JavaScript, CSS, and React to build elegant solutions. You will collaborate with designers and product managers, taking projects from ideation to delivery. This role requires deep care for craft and quality, proficiency in various frontend technologies, and the ability to work in a lean, multidisciplinary environment. You will lead large projects, mentor team members, and advocate for best practices. Pleo offers competitive benefits including a Pleo card, catered lunches or allowance, private health insurance, generous paid time off, wellbeing days, access to LinkedIn Learning, paid parental leave, and an equity grant scheme.

Requirements

• Care deeply about your craft and about quality
• Care deeply about product and design
• Be proactive and confident in your skills
• Work in a lean environment
• Organize work across teams
• Be comfortable working in a multidisciplinary environment, and especially comfortable working with designers
• Know your way around: Modern JavaScript, CSS and Web APIs
• Know your way around: Component-based, declarative UIs (we use React)
• Know your way around: Accessibility in web apps
• Know your way around: CSS-in-JS (we use styled-components)
• Know your way around: Linting and testing frameworks (we use Jest + RTL and Cypress)
• Know your way around: Static types (we use TypeScript)
• Know your way around: Data fetching and mutations (we use tRPC, SWR)
• Know your way around: Tooling for frontend teams and shared component systems (we use Storybook)
• Know your way around: Internationalisation/i18n (we use LinguiJS)
• Work in English with ease (it's our company language)
• Have experience solving complex technical challenges at scale

Responsibilities

• Take the project end-to-end from ideation to delivery
• Steward efforts that involve two or more product teams across the organization
• Constantly build reusable components for the entire system
• Ensure a high bar for quality and reliability on your team
• Coach others on your team to help them develop as engineers
• Advocate for a more thorough code review process than a quick scroll to the bottom of the page and a “LGTM!”
• You don’t just write code, you help to design the overall solution

Preferred Qualifications

• Never stop being curious and love learning about new languages/ frameworks/ working styles
• Keep track of your promises – at least your JavaScript ones
• Accidentally start sentences with npm because you’re so used to typing it
• Evangelise ES6, ECMAScript 2018, ES2022, or know better than we do what the newest standard is
• Would be a person that they would actually like to have a coffee with (virtual or not)
• Somehow find a way to debate the merits of server vs client side rendering in that aforementioned coffee chat

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• In [location], we offer _ days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our [name of team] we offer ___ [statement about flexibility/remote working options]
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work
• All of us have a stake in Pleo’s success - ask us about our equity grant scheme