Senior Frontend Engineer (all genders)

Who we are

We operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team.

Your tasks

• You proactively develop the Kaufland Marketplace and internal services further
• You connect us to the rapidly growing customer base. Collaborating closely with our UX/UI experts, you will design and implement solutions that deliver an exceptional shopping experience
• You continuously optimize and maintain existing frontend applications regarding performance, speed, usability, minimizing load times and maximizing interactivity
• You proactively contribute your own suggestions, solutions, and technologies to the development process
• You work on highly scalable and performant SSR Vue 3 frontends serving pages with high traffic
• Based on your well-founded experience and skills, you are committed to continuously improving your colleagues' know-how, methodology, and quality, and you lead by example

Your profile

• You have relevant experience of 6+ years as a Frontend or Full-Stack Engineer and are used to solving different engineering problems with the tools and frameworks that make sense both for the problem domain and the engineering organization
• You have profound knowledge of our frontend tech stack, which is predominantly TypeScript and Vue.js, or you are experienced and accomplished with other common frameworks
• Familiarity with backend application development either in Node.js, PHP or other languages is a must
• You are knowledgeable about testing, debugging, monitoring, and deployment techniques for web applications
• You have experience with building responsive web applications and using different API paradigms
• Ideally, you have experience running efficient experiments and validating ideas using A/B Tests in high-iteration cycles
• You work proactively, take responsibility, and challenge processes
• You have excellent communication skills, are fluent in English (C1) and enjoy working in an international environment
• You have in-depth knowledge of software development methods and principles that translate into writing code that is easy to understand and maintain
• You are committed to learning and adapting to new technologies quickly, besides training opportunities provided by the company
• You have the drive to continuously develop both yourself and your team further to become a little bit better every day
• You know how and when to document technical specifications and decisions that affect your team or other teams in your area
• You have solid understanding of infrastructure concepts

What we offer

• Create your own work-life balance: You have the flexibility to choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from one of our locations
• Attractive relocation package if you want to move to Germany
• Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios: Get top deals for fitness, swimming, yoga and more
• Mental Well-Being: We support you on your well-being journey with special offerings such as Instahelp
• Vacation & Sabbatical: Enjoy 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical
• Pluxee restaurant vouchers, Deutschlandticket, employee discount, and free choice of operating system
• Boost your growth: Benefit from our online language learning programs, diverse in-house training, and 360-degree feedback
• Our dynamic culture combines flat hierarchies, a start-up mentality, an international team, and the strength of the Schwarz Group