Frontend Tech Lead (m/f/d)

About us

The Spryker Systems GmbH is a fast-growing technology company, offering leading manufacturers, brands and sellers of all industries a flexible commerce solution along all customer facing touchpoints. From online shop and mobile to voice, chat bot, blockchain and IoT use cases. Our modern offices are located in the German digital metropolis Berlin and Hamburg.
The international Spryker team is constantly working with new exciting customers, technologies and innovative approaches and is looking for talented employees, to join us revolutionizing the digital commerce world.

In a Nutshell

Do you easily balance high quality with challenging deadlines and cutting-edge ideas? Vision & ownership over new feature-creation is your main drive? You are the biggest supporter of good software design?
 
Join our international and remote-first Spryker Technology Team as Frontend Technical Lead (m/f/d) and help us revolutionize digital commerce.

Your challenges

  • Design architecture of existing and new Spryker features, applications, and services
  • Lead high-quality technical solutions in your development team to successful results
  • Engineer for engineers, code that is easy to understand and work with
  • Guide engineers to high-quality standards by own example and best practices
  • Work together with other tech leads and architects, design innovative solutions for our customers and partners, and evolve Spryker products with your experience
  • Design and execute inspiring training programs for internal and external Frontend teams
  • Run technology investigations, coach, and motivate engineers to disclose the power of agile practices while building good software.
  • Analyze technologies to solve integration problems in projects and bring this knowledge to Spryker Products

Your profile

  • Senior- or lead-level expertise, with a minimum of 5 years in Frontend development
  • Knowledge about professional software engineering e.g. SOLID-principles, Clean Code, Separation of Concerns
  • Experience with Webpack
  • Experience with preprocessors (Sass, LESS, etc.)
  • Solid knowledge of accessibility, SEO, and UX aspects of frontend development
  • Good understanding of cross-browser/platform issues
  • Strong experience with a responsive web design approach
  • Understanding of component approach
  • Strong consulting and architectural skills, and ability to work and clarify business requirements
  • Strong code review skills
  • Great communicator with outstanding analytical skills
  • Passion to share knowledge, guide and navigate others
  • Excellent written and verbal skills in the English language
  • Understanding of E-commerce domains, Frontend as a Service or CMS FE is a plus
 
Besides our basic requirements, you should feel comfortable with our technology stack. We do not expect that you are an expert in all fields, but some of them should be familiar to you.
 
  • Frontend: Javascript, TypeScript, Webpack, NPM, web-components, BEM, FE Frameworks based on VueJs (preferable) or Angular 2+
  • System: Vagrant, Saltstack, Docker, Git
  • Backend stack is a plus, but not required: PHP7/8, SQL (eg PostgreSQL/MySql), Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Twig, Composer