Senior Frontend Engineer (m/f/x)

Our Promise:

We are building a software company where smart and creative minds like you do their best to make the real estate industry a driving force for positive change.

With us, you can grow by taking on the challenges of a centuries-old industry, pushing boundaries and changing mindsets for the better.

With us, you can bring your energy, your passion and your ideas and find the perfect place to reach your best form.

Are you looking for an opportunity to grow and join an amazing team of frontrunners? 🚀

Here’s your chance! - Our Engineering team is looking for support.

Senior Frontend Engineer (m/f/x)

Your Mission:

• Together with your team, you seek to understand customers' problems and what they need, then deliver high quality software to solve those problems.
• You work directly with UX/UI designers in your team through initial user flow sketching, prototyping with customers, and eventually bring their designs to life in the product.
• You strive to deliver the best possible experience for our users by empowering them through an effective and intuitive UI.
• You build features with a “you build it, you run it” mindset and are responsible for testing, deployment, and monitoring of your code.
• You use your experience and act as a mentor to help your teammates grow, and are equally open to learning from them too.

You want to have insights about the Engineering team? Visit our Techblog to get to know more!

Who you are:

• You have a degree in Computer Science or a comparable field. We are open to an alternate career path as well.
• You value communication skills (written and spoken), and can effectively manage discussions with your technical and non-technical colleagues alike.
• You bring several years of work experience as a Software Engineer and are more than ready for a new challenge.
• You are knowledgeable about the web platform and understand how to utilise that in order to build scalable applications.
• You have experience in system design and how to maintain codebases within cross-functional teams.
• You have an understanding of software testing, especially in testing frontend applications.
• You favor open communication, constant feedback and effective decision paths that optimise for learning.
• You have a “never-stop-learning” attitude and a desire to develop and grow.
• You are fluent in English (Level C1).

Nice to have:

• You have worked in an agile development team with other disciplines (product management, design).
• Familiarity with design systems (using or maintaining).
• You value good frontend tooling to increase the Developer Experience for everybody.

What tools we use:

• Frontend: TypeScript/React with our own Design System called Bricks
• Frontend testing: Jest w/ React Testing Library, Playwright
• Frontend tooling: Webpack using ESbuild, ESLint, Prettier
• Backend: Python 3 (Django 5), FastAPI
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
• Database: Postgres

How your first month will be:

• You have an onboarding buddy from day one to get you on board and help you with all questions on the way.
• You directly start in a team which helps you to get quickly hands-on and see your first contributions to the product in the first week already.
• You have regular check-ins with your supervisor to see if your onboarding plan is working for you and where we can provide support to improve your experience.

What we offer:

• Scale-up Culture
  With our experienced founding team and our flat hierarchies, we provide an environment in which everyone can give their best and grow individually. Convince yourself: ✭✭✭✭✭ 4,5 stars on kununu.com/de/alasco
• Development & Learning
  We offer you an annual development budget of two thousand euros and three individually applicable training days.
• Participation
  You will receive shares in Alasco through our Employee Stock Option Plans and actively benefit from the growth and success of Alasco.
• Trust & Flexibility
  We offer you permanent contracts, flexible working hours, flex week (2 days office & 3 days flexible) and workation in other EU countries. We offer you a lot of personal responsibility and creative opportunities to promote your goal-oriented career.
• Openness and Appreciation
  We live an open feedback culture with regular 1:1s with your Team Lead & quarterly feedback meetings.
• We strive as a team!
  That's why we organize regular team events where everyone can get to know the Alasco team and have fun together.
• Wellbeing at work
  We offer you high-quality work materials, an office in a top location (Leopoldstraße 21, U-Bahn station Giselastraße), fantastic coffee and tea and our muesli and fruit bar.
• Mobility & Sports
  You can choose between sporting activities with the EGYM Wellpass or diverse mobility offers with Navit.