Front-End Engineer

The company:

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

The role:

We're hiring another Front-End Engineer to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. Our headquarters is in Rotterdam, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in France. Salary is paid monthly in euros. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

In this role you will:

• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query

You'll need:

• 3+ years building production web applications
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers

Also helpful:

• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts

Compensation and benefits:

Compensation: €58,000 - €68,000 a year

• Home office setup budget
• 24 days paid time off
• Annual team retreat
• Paid sick days

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Start: Flexible.

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