Front-End Engineer (React / React Native) – Store & Web

Location: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Department: Engineering

In a nutshell 

At Picnic, we're revolutionising the way people buy groceries with our affordable and sustainable grocery service. We do almost everything in-house, developing cutting-edge technologies and processes to ensure we continue to grow rapidly without missing a beat. 

In all our customer-facing products, we use React. Our mobile application uses React Native, combined with our home-grown server-driven UI framework. We have ambitious plans to unify our mobile and web applications into a single platform. Quality is our top priority, so we use TypeScript across the board.

About the role

We are looking for driven front-end engineers to help us bring the grocery shopping revolution to millions of customers. In this role, in addition to working with React daily you'll be working with our powerful server-driven UI framework that's at the heart of our business's success:

• Powers our entire shopping app and enables rapid iterations
• Drives sophisticated personalization at scale, delivering tailored content to each user
• Empowers our business teams to operate the store autonomously - dozens of operators and analysts make every day real-time updates without any further tech involvement

In this role you can expect to work with a wide range of technologies within the JavaScript ecosystem, across the full stack! Experience with React Native is not required, we’ll get you up to speed with that on the job.

Tricks of the trade

• Growth: Work with cross-functional teams across the entire business, pick up increasingly challenging tasks and projects, and have ownership over your contributions
• Contribution: Work on our customer-facing Picnic store, implementing new features on a daily basis, and contribute to our React Native architecture and server-driven UI framework
• Collaboration: Collaborate with designers and product owners to create specifications for new features 
• Our Tech: React, React Native, TypeScript and RxJS, Redux, Styled Components, Jest, NextJS, Storybook

We’re looking for

• 4+ years of full-time software development, and have worked with React, React Native, Typescript, or similar JavaScript frameworks
• Experience in shipping applications
• A willingness and desire to work with a variety of technologies
• Hands-on experience with (unit) testing
• Enthusiasm to work with a variety of technologies and a problem-solving mindset
• The confidence to transform business requirements into a technical plan
• The willingness and flexibility to take feedback and learn from other developers

Picnic Perks

✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner! 

You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

💡 Make a difference

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place! 

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

🍎 You are what you eat

You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

🚴🏽 Stay healthy 

Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing! 

🔋 Attractive package

We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries 

🌍 Benefits for expats 

It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.