Senior Frontend Engineer

Join a fast-growing, listed company with a purpose! Fastned owns and operates a network of 300+ fast charging stations across Europe, allowing electric vehicle drivers to charge their cars with 100% green energy in just 15 minutes. Our goal is a European network of 1000 fast charging stations in prime locations, where all-electric vehicles can charge with renewable energy from the sun and wind. We have recently been voted the best charging network in the UK, France, and the Netherlands. If you want to make a difference and work in an informal, international scale-up environment with prospects, read on!

Your role

Fastned aims to accelerate the transition towards sustainable mobility by giving freedom to electric drivers. As Frontend Developer you are responsible for developing experiences that are simple, drive engagement, and deliver WOW to our users on every journey touchpoint. By delivering best-in-class frontend solutions for Fastned digital products, you get the unique opportunity to improve the EV driving experience and contribute to the transition to sustainable mobility.

In this role, you will contribute to a range of Fastned products, primarily working on our proprietary back office platform Revolt. You will take the role of a key sparring partner for the front-end development team. As a true problem-solver, you will be accountable for the delivery of a well-functioning product, while teaming up with Product Design to raise the bar on usability. This role is part of the Software team and works as a member of the scrum team with fellow Frontend Developers, Backend Engineers, a Scrum Master, Product Manager, and Product Designer. 

Your overall responsibilities include

• Contribute with your team to product development from ideation to deployment

• Development, testing, and doing code reviews for Fastned frontend applications

• Refine with your team feature requirements to deliver a product that materially impacts the business and improves the customer experience

• Must excel in a team environment, contributing to and thriving on collective success.

• Raise the bar on product usability, contributing to design system creation while developing experiences that deliver WOW on every journey touchpoint

• Participate in scrum ceremonies and contribute to tech decision-making

• Coach and assist the team in improving development methodologies and applying best practice patterns

Who we are looking for

In order to be successful in this role, you bring along a highly entrepreneurial mindset - we want our employees to ‘Think like a founder’. You thrive in taking ownership of all software engineering aspects that help create the best-in-class user experience. Additionally, you tick the following boxes:

• 5+ years of experience with React, including advanced knowledge of Next.js

• Extensive experience with REST API integration and state management using React Query

• Proficient in CSS, including TailwindCSS and styled-jsx

• Experienced in working with component libraries

• Deep understanding of Atomic Design principles for scalable UI architecture

• Skilled in unit and end-to-end testing

• Familiarity in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for frontend projects

• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and guide team members toward achieving project goals

• Passionate about contributing to the energy transition and aligning with Fastned’s mission

Join us in building a better future

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility, and have family-friendly policies in place. Our benefits include:

• Stock option plan -> We believe in shared value creation;

• A training and development budget of €3,000 per year per employee, because development and training are important to us and our sector offers endless opportunities;

• In order to feel & enjoy the EV life, you get access to our fully electric vehicle fleet (all charging expenses covered), also for private use;

• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations;

• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you two mission days you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.

• Next to fun events year-round, we throw notorious Christmas parties and organise an amazing yearly trip abroad with all employees;

• Other perks include flexible working hours, full travel compensation and the working gear of your choice.

Interested in making an impact?

We would love to have a conversation with you! Apply now, send us your CV and explain in your motivation letter why you’re excited about joining Fastned. Here’s the next steps of the hiring process:

• First chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner

• Take-home assignment and technical interview with our Engineers

• Chat with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager

• Meet your future team and chat with Head of Engineering and Director of Product & Engineering

Then, it’s time to welcome you on board to Fastned!

Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.

If you have questions or need further information regarding your application, please contact our recruitment team via recruitment(at)fastned.nl