Senior Software Development Engineer (Frontend, React Native))
Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!
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Background:
Our dream at HEINEKEN is to help our customers grow by serving them better, faster, and smarter with digital solutions. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the importance of digital solutions in the Commerce area at Heineken. These IT solutions have become a vital component in supporting the company's revenue. To ensure that this trend is supported and the IT in this area continues to grow, the new Commerce DevOps Hub is being established. The newly created organization, being an integral part of the Global Digital & Technology Function, is tasked with maintaining, but most importantly developing (functionally and technologically) IT solutions supporting the Commerce area at Heineken. Commerce DevOps Hub is located in Kraków and will include highly qualified IT professionals with direct contribution to both the technological development of the Heineken Commerce and the Hub itself.
Your Role:
As the Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be part of the development team responsible for developing in-house products in eazle (our e-Commerce platform). Collaborating closely with Product Owner(s), Product Architect(s) and other DevOps teams you will need to understand the business needs, helping Product Architect(s) to convert those needs into solution architecture specifications and services in line with overall engineering standards and roadmaps. Driving excellence in engineering practices to deliver high-quality solutions throughout the software development lifecycle in our Commerce IT landscape, will be important element of your role.
The role reports directly to the Software Development Engineering Lead.
Your responsibilities would include:
- designing and developing scalable, responsive, and user-friendly frontend applications
- understanding about how design systems work and how to integrate them into the development process (must)
- developing reusable components as specified by the design system team
- writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards, and ensuring high code quality through code reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration
- optimizing frontend performance and user experience through techniques such as lazy loading, code splitting, caching, and browser optimization
- working closely with UX/UI designers to translate design mockups and wireframes into interactive and visually appealing user interfaces
- collaborating with backend engineers to define API specifications, integrate frontend components with backend services, and ensure seamless data flow between the frontend and backend layers
- breaking down product requirements into manageable development chunks, and support your Engineering Manager and Business Analyst in crafting user stories (must)
- creating design patterns, technical designs, cracking technical complex problems, and similar solutioning artefacts for review with peers, architects and adjacent tech teams
- being expert voice in meeting and sprint ceremonies (must).
You are a good candidate if you have:
- 8+ years of working experience in the similar position
- a strong proficiency in modern frontend technologies
- understanding how to develop frontend applications that use headless Content Management System (CMS) (must)
- familiarity with breaking down pages into reusable components as part of a frontend design system.
- familiarity with experimentation concepts like A/B testing, multivariate testing, statistical significance, feature toggles and experimental design (must).
- display effective communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- pragmatic, and collaborative team player.
Technology Stack:
Mandatory to know:
- Main programming languages; JavaScript / TypeScript (Next.js, React, Node.js, React Native)
- Contentful
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- Azure cloud infra
Good to know:
- Other programming language (PHP, Python)
- Optimizely
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