Werkspot is a fast growing internet company with headquarters in
the city centre of Amsterdam. Our mission is to be the easiest and most
reliable way to arrange home services. We are the market leader in
France and The Netherlands and also operate in Italy. Our company is
part of the portfolio of IAC, a US based company. IAC builds companies,
and is guided by curiosity, a questioning of the status quo, and a
desire to invent or acquire new products and brands. We try to reflect
this curiosity in our processes at Werkspot.
Team & Technology
You will be working in a cross-functional and highly autonomous
team consisting of skilled professionals (5 Developers, UX Designer,
User Researcher, Product Manager, Agile Coach and a Business Analyst).
There is one experienced Front-end developer who is already in the team
you would join.
We use modern tools such as ReactJS, NextJS, ExpressJS, Apollo Client,
CSS-in-JS, GraphQL, Webpack, Kubernetes, and Docker. We keep a close eye
on quality and make sure everything is tested in an automated way with
tools like Cypress, Jest and GitLab pipelines.
We are currently moving from a monolithic PHP application to a React
front-end stack using GraphQL, and we need your help with this challenge
and many more to come.
Your role
You will join us in our goal to create the easiest and most
reliable product experience for our users. We are looking for a
front-end developer who is familiar with the latest tools, able to
actively participate in discussions with front-end specialists in other
teams and can contribute to architectural discussions.
While working in a cross-functional team, you will have our support to
be continuously learning, and the autonomy to decide which skills to
nurture that will help both you and Werkspot be successful.
Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Understand context & data and translate into valuable solutions
- Bring critical thinking to discussions & decisions
- Be a reliable, communicative and active team player
- Be aware and follow guild agreements and best practices
- Create quality software
- Manage expectations about own tasks/work
- Communicate escalations/impediments quickly to relevant persons
- Help other engineers grow by coaching, mentoring, and teaching
You should have
- Minimum of 5 years of experience writing JavaScript
- Experience with ReactJS
- JavaScript tooling
- HTML & CSS knowledge
- Proficient with ES6+
- Solid engineering capability with an eye towards performance and responsiveness
- Very strong communication skills
Bonus Points For Experience With
- Experience with GraphQL
- Android or iOS development
- Automation (scripting, CI)
- Server-side experience (Node.JS, PHP)
We offer you
- A competitive salary;
- A healthy budget for learning and joining conferences;
- 25 days of annual leave;
- Pension arrangement;
- Free lunch together with your colleagues;
- Free fitness in our office building;
- A friendly working environment in the centre of Amsterdam.
We are excited to get you in the team
Werkspot is located at the Herengracht in the centre of
Amsterdam. Each week we are enjoying drinks on our balcony, with a
wonderful view of the canal. We often celebrate our achievements
together with the whole company. The culture within Werkspot is very
open, welcoming and multicultural. We trust each other and give the
autonomy to work in different ways. Some teams are using Scrum, others
Kanban. We pay a lot of attention to things like communication, working
environment and personal development.
Want to apply? Show us your stuff!
Please provide us with information you feel would be useful to
us in gaining a better understanding of your background and
accomplishments. Links demonstrating projects you’ve helped deliver,
your blog, publications, personal projects, etc. are exceptionally
useful. You can apply via a click on the apply button and we will get in
touch.
Additional Information
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