DaWanda is the leading German online marketplace for handmade and unique products. Designers and creatives offer their one of a kind and limited-edition products for sale on www.dawanda.com. Going against the grain of mass-production, DaWanda is a haven for those who value individuality and responsible consumption, as much as they like the latest trends. On the website you can find unique fashion, accessories, baby items and home decor. DaWanda is a social commerce platform, where consumers can exchange creative ideas and find inspiration from one another. Many products are created to the individual specifications of the buyer.
How we work
Our Product Engineering department is composed of passionate Software and QA Engineers, Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, Data Analysts and BI Experts structured in full stack vertical teams. We believe in the empowerment of individuals and we use Agile methodologies to let the team set quarterly objectives, in accordance with the company vision. We manage our own fleet of servers, deploying our services inside Docker containers. Besides, we develop our features in small incremental steps, with a workflow based on GitHub pull requests. We want our code to be well tested and we continuously integrate with Travis CI. The scale of our operations is a sweet spot between the freedom and the agility of a startup and the challenges of a big company.
What we are looking for
Our marketplace platform was built over the years by dozens of skilled engineers and we are looking for experienced Frontend Engineers (f/m) who have worked on large web platforms to keep evolving it.
You will be working with one of our teams, collaborating with UX/UI Designers and Backend Engineers in the development of new features on our marketplace.
Do you want to help us in migrating our clientside architecture to new technologies like React to make our platform faster and easier to develop, test and extend? We are looking for passionate and skilled people to join our engineering team and are glad to have you on board as a Frontend Engineer (f/m)!
Your Responsibilities:
- Work in a flat hierarchy international team (our office language is English)
- Write elegant and performant code that is easy to maintain
- Develop your code well-tested and improve tests and code continuously
- You deploy to our production cluster with over 100 million monthly page impressions on a daily basis
- Agile development and modern project management following the Scrum approach
- Ensure, restructure and maintain code for scalability
Our Requirements:
- You build software not only at work, you are passionate about software
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Several years of experience with modern clientside JavaScript frameworks (Backbone.js, Angular.js, Ember.js or similar)
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Experience in working with extensive CSS libraries to produce beautiful responsive pages
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Attention to details when implementing designs and prototypes
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Passion about UI design and new web trends
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Willingness to help migrating our platform to new and exciting technologies
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Having worked on Ruby on Rails applications is a nice to have
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Good command of English
We offer:
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The opportunity to bring in fresh ideas to the team and participate in the next evolution of our platform
- Join a talented, driven and international team, passionate about our product and our customers
- Highly relevant, insightful and challenging tasks & the opportunity for personal and professional development
- Participate in an open, creative, innovative company culture with flexible working hours
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All the perks of working in the most exciting city in Europe when it comes to quality of life and knowledge sharing opportunities in tech
