Senior Front-end Developer

SEOshop is the fastest growing e-Commerce platform of Europe. SEOshop provides a Software- as- a- Service (SaaS) platform for companies to set up their online stores. SEOshop services over 8.000 customers in the Benelux and DACH geographies, among which Philips, National Geographic, Grolsch, Madama Tussauds and Van Gogh Museum. SEOshop employs more than 75 passionate internet and e-Commerce specialists, working on innovation and internationalization on a daily basis. The majority of the talented and fun team is working from our headquarters in Amsterdam, where we operate from the Canal District (UNESCO world heritage). With our current growth rate, we are in the top-3 fastest growing companies in the Benelux area. This provides you an excellent environment to learn about hypergrowth, and help build the dominant mid-market e-Commerce platform of Europe. We have recently opened our office in Frankfurt am Main, from which we service the DACH area and planning to open more local offices in all our focus areas. At SEOshop the development work is done in¬ house. We have highly skilled Developers, Database Administrators, Unix Administrators, Web Designers, and Network Engineers working together to make our site user -friendly, responsive and commercially driven.

YOUR ROLE WITHIN SEOSHOP

• Rapidly develop next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems
• Working in cross-functional teams (squad-based)
• Total ownership over your projects is highly appreciated within the company
• Solve issues, prioritizing based on customer impact
• Act as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Coach and train new developers
• Be in love with coding

YOU AS A PERSON

• You are a developer that enjoys working in an international orientated team
• You are proactive and pick up work when you see it
• You are able to keep yourself and your colleagues focused on the job
• You are a developer that we can learn from, from an interpersonal aspect. This will make our team stronger, which will undoubtedly have a positive effect on the dynamics of the team
• You enjoy sharing knowledge with the team (receiving it also, of course!)
• You are an expert at CSS3, javascript, jQuery, and AJAX
• You have experience with – or interest in – SASS/LESS, OO/MVC javascript, CoffeeScript
• You are someone who believes that the “mobile web” is just another term for “the web”
• You are a clear thinker and communicator who loves tackling tough problems
• We love gaming, so it will give you an advantage if you are a PlayStation or Xbox lover 🙂

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• A minimum of 5 years working-experience as a frontend developer
• A background in building high-traffic websites or apps
• Experience with implementing UI design to for web products
• An eye for design and the ability to conceive and prototype new apps and product features
• A working knowledge of CSS3 media queries, and current best practices around responsive design
• A commitment to optimizing sites for front-end performance
• Familiarity with Git
• Use of HTML5 and CSS3 on your recent projects
• Ability to building web sites or apps that deliver great mobile experiences in terms of layout, interaction, performance and features
• Strong knowledge of SEO, SEM and social media trends
• Good front-end development skills and the desire to learn
• Good ideas, strong opinions, a collaborative attitude and strong work ethic.

BIG PLUS IF

• You have used responsive design approaches on at least one of your projects
• You have played around with Backbone.js and Underscore.js, or at least have read a few tutorials
• You are interested in analytics, user experience and information architecture
• You use a style sheet authoring framework like SASS or LESS, and refuse to go back to writing CSS without them
• You have experience conducting user research and usability testing
• You are experienced in working with SVG’s in an optimal way

SEOSHOP OFFERS

• Salary
• A real ambitious, fun and inspiring work surrounding
• Room for ownership and initiative within a fast-growing organization
• Training that will provide you as a software developer better knowledge about software and e-Commerce
• A daily, healthy and free lunch
• “Work hard/play hard” principle with weekly drinks in Amsterdam. We celebrate our success!