Front End Developer (Accessibility)

Headquartered in Rotterdam since 2007, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

The role:

Waal Digital needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. Part of this job is rebuilding an older AngularJS front end in React. Some of that work is unglamorous migration, and we won't pretend otherwise. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the Netherlands. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

What you'll be doing:

• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs
• Add analytics events and help product read the results
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly

Required qualifications:

• 3-5 years building production web applications
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup
• Git and a pull request based workflow
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building or maintaining a design system
• Some Node.js backend work
• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy

Pay: €6,100 to €8,300 per month

What we offer:

• Pension scheme
• 25 annual leave days
• 30% ruling for eligible candidates
• 13th month salary
• Laptop and phone
• Training budget

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Waal Digital.