Lead Front-End Developer

📕 Context

At Shipup, we enjoy working with humble engineers who seek to work in a learning, collaborative and friendly environment.

Our developers come from diverse education backgrounds and know how to use & adapt their tools according to the challenges. They do care and are proud of how they do their stuff but also why.

They enjoy contributing to the company & product activities that allow them to make an impact beyond the code itself.

In this role, you will lead and implement the technical front-end roadmap and architecture for our product. You will ensure that the front-end codebase is of the highest quality and drive the continuous improvement of our front-end development processes and practices. Additionally, you will also participate in building new features and improvements for the product.

🛍 As a Lead Front End Developer @Shipup,

You will lead the front-end topics, ensure we maintain high-quality code and unlock new product capabilities. Our ideal candidate not only ensures high-quality code and improves quality attributes, but also inspires and mentors developers on front-end best practices.

In the short term, we are focused on completing impactful topics, such as finishing the foundation and the adoption of our design system and migrating to TypeScript, while fostering strong collaboration between developers and designers.

In the medium to long term, we want to keep our codebase up to date and evolve it following industry standards, tackle new front-end topics that support the product strategy and ensure that our front-end implementations are properly integrated.

To learn more about how we’ve tackled front-end challenges in our growing team, check out our recent blog article here, which provides valuable insights into our approach to handling front-end topics.

🙌 Our team

You’ll join a team of twelve people led by Léa (CPTO), Florian (VP of Engineering) and Simon (EM/Lead Dev)

This team is divided into two squads :

• Online-shopper perceived value : this squad has the ownership of all features that are directly dedicated to end-customers. Squad members will focus on features for which the benefits are mainly perceived by / or directed towards the latter.

• Merchant perceived value (where we are hiring) : this squad has the ownership of all features that benefit directly the Merchants. Squad members will focus on providing our merchant’s operations and CS teams with the tools and resources they need to be successful.

Your time will be split between your lead responsibilities and the product development responsibilities.

You’ll often meet with the technical leaders (CTO, VP Eng, EM) to sync on the front-end roadmap and be challenged on your decisions.

You will also collaborate with product designers to ensure we deliver a very good user experience yet in an effective way.successful.

You can learn more about our internal organization, technical challenges, methods and approaches thanks to our engineering blog and engineering page on Welcome to the Jungle.

👩‍💻 Our stack

Tech

• Ruby on Rails and Go for backend

• TypeScript, React (with Hooks), Redux, React Testing Library, CSS Modules, Webpack (with federated modules) for frontend

• Hosted on GCP

• Datadog, LogDNA, Sentry for monitoring

• Monolithic infrastructure + introduction of microservices (for about a year, 3 services today)

• PostgreSQL + Elasticsearch + RabbitMQ + Redis for storage

• Kubernetes + Docker for ops

Global

• Asana, project management tool

• Slack, messaging platform

• Notion, documentation platform

• PayFit, payroll & compliance for french talents

• Lattice, people success platform

• Deel, payroll & compliance for international talents