Frontend Software Engineer
SkillLab, Netherlands

Welcome to SkillLab

At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has equal career opportunities. We enable and lead a radical change - a focus on skills instead of titles and degrees. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient labor markets. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 25+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.

Your opportunity

• Say goodbye to various approval loops to change app icons. You will be working on big, new features and immediately see the result of your engineering work.
• You will work on an innovative and AI-driven career guidance solution that will help millions of (marginalized) job seekers across the world to find jobs and education.
• You will experience the culture of a technology start-up with a social mission and work in an international environment with SkillLabers from 25+ countries.

Your team

You will join our product team as the new frontend software engineer:

• Ragnar is one of SkillLab co-founders and leads the Product team. You will directly report to him.
• Our backend software engineers are Aaron, Barry, Lala, Refai, Yasser, Nubar amp; Vlad
• Our frontend engineers are Ibraheem, Ivana, Kilani, and Mojtaba.
• Gaspar is our full-stack engineer, Luiza our QA engineer and Hamza works in DevOps.
• Our product managers are Hadeel, Hayani amp; Omar.
• You will work and interact with many more fantastic team members from Data Science and UX/UI.

We are proud of the people we work with and to work at a company with a strong social mission. We hope you will be too!

What you will do

• You will write the code for new features that will make the front-end of our career guidance solution beautiful and the user experience seamless
• You will ensure that every job seeker (regardless of age, gender, culture) can get personalized career guidance through our app
• You will code using React and TypeScript
• You collaborate with the other engineers through code reviews and by integrating with our backend and DevOps infrastructure
• You learn how we leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence to allow job seekers to better understand their skills and get matched to education and jobs

Requirements

Is this you?

• You are excited about our social mission to empower everyone to have a pathway to employment
• You have 4-8 years of experience in front-end development, with extensive knowledge in TypeScript, React (version 18+ with hooks), PWAs, Material UI and other libraries in the React ecosystem(emotion, jest, redux, swr).
• You have a learning mindset and bring the drive and curiosity to tackle new coding challenges
• You work collaboratively in an engineering team and are empathic towards our end-users

Extra awesome

• You have some experience of Ruby and Rails, Storybook, animation frameworks, bundlers, service workers, Web APIs, or Google Cloud

Salary, start-date amp; location

• We use a salary benchmark for the Dutch high-tech sector to set your salary based on your experience. We expect that the annual gross salary for the experience we are looking for ranges from 64k-78k Euro per year.
• We strongly prefer on-site candidates who live in Amsterdam or the Netherlands. However, we are open to remote applicants who will make intermittent trips to Amsterdam from cities within the Netherlands.
• We accept applications on a rolling basis, and we envision a start date asap.

Benefits

• You will enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year.
• You can work flexibly both from our office in Amsterdam or remotely within the Netherlands. You can also extend your holiday stay in a different country and work from abroad for a limited period of time.
• You will get an extensive relocation support to move to Amsterdam including visa sponsorship, 30% ruling application, your plane tickets, first 2-weeks of hotel accommodation etc.
• You can easily access your learning budget to invest in your personal development.
• You will have access to mentors amp; coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
• You will have access to a monthly flexible budget of benefits via Yourcampus app. You can spend this budget on a large selection of providers, ranging from gym memberships to bike subscriptions and online stores.
• You will join our bi-annual company offsite retreats in different locations like Belgium, Germany etc.

• SkillLab is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion at the workplace. We welcome applications of candidates f

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