Junior Front End Developer

About Finchbeam Systems

Finchbeam Systems is a 29-person software shop in Leuven. The founders still answer support tickets. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us.

What this job is

Finchbeam Systems is looking for a Junior Front End Developer to join a small, steady team. 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. You can work from home anywhere in Belgium. We have no office requirement. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

What you'll do

• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack

About you

• 0-2 years building production web applications
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details

Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Laptop and phone
• Home office allowance
• Travel allowance
• 25 annual leave days
• 8% holiday allowance
• Bike plan

Candidates must be eligible to work in Belgium.

Start: Immediately.

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