Junior Front End Developer

Alpen Cloud employs 620 people across engineering hubs in Berlin and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

The position

This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. Alpen Cloud needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

What you'll be doing

• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly
• Add analytics events and help product read the results
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers

Minimum qualifications

• 0-2 years building production web applications
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM

Nice to have

• Some Node.js backend work
• Internationalization (i18n) and right-to-left layouts
• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering
• Figma, including Dev Mode

Salary range: $2,100 - $2,500 monthly

Compensation and benefits

• Monthly internet allowance
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Annual rate review
• Flexible hours

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Alpen Cloud GmbH.