Job description

About the client:

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)
• 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:

• Be able to work independently, t ake ownership of features.
• Proficiency with React and TypeScript for web application development for at least 5-6 years, and  over the last 1-2 years
• Good knowledge of JavaScript event handling
• Strong HTML and CSS skills
• Experience working with Java/ Scala is a great advantage.
• 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