Frontend Software Engineer all genders

Role: Frontend Software Engineer

Reporting to : the Chief Technology Officer

Location: Based in Berlin or ability to relocate

Compensation: Salary depending on experience stock options benefits

About Faircado Making recommerce the new ecommerce

Faircado is at the forefront of the sustainable shopping movement making secondhand the first choice for consumers everywhere. Faircado simplifies the search for quality preowned items by aggregating listings from various trusted platforms ensuring a seamless and ecoconscious shopping experience. Were building Faircado to disrupt and make circular the 200 Billion resale market in Europe making the planet a better place at the same time.

Currently the online secondhand market is fragmented messy and timeconsuming so Faircado is creating a movement where the experience of buying secondhand is better than buying new. To date weve built a browser extension that finds secondhand alternatives as you shop online as normal (check it out its pretty cool). Were on a mission to scale our userfriendly platform to millions of users making a tangible impact on the environment and consumer habits.

Recognized as Product Hunts Product of the Day on Black Friday our innovative approach to secondhand shopping earned us the prestigious title of winner at Slush 100 the largest investment pitching competition of its kind. Consequently weve received investment from toptier investors like General Catalyst and Accel. Moreover Faircado has been acknowledged as one of the top German startups to watch a testament to our commitment to growth and impact in the tech and sustainability sectors.

Tasks

Do What You Love!

As a frontendfocused software engineer your impact will be integral to the success of Faircado.

Key responsibilities include:

• You will build a new highperformance serverside rendered NextJS platform with several million hits per minute.
• You work collaboratively with Product UX/UI Designers and Engineers to scope design and implement userfacing features with high complexity that go beyond conventional shopping assistants.
• In addition you will implement product features that have a direct impact on user engagement experience and monetization.
• You will take ownership of the whole development cycle from architectural design to implementation testing deployment and maintenance.
• Therefore you own your individual code base write appropriate unit and integration tests and continuously deploy accepted features.
• You write elegant maintainable and scalable in TypeScript/HTML/CSS.
• You actively participate in product & feature discovery sessions with our founders and CPO.
• Fast is not fast enough for you: You will also be responsible for optimising page performance on Faircado.

Requirements

We Need You To Have

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Substantial professional experience as a software engineer of modern web applications.
• Experience building web applications using modern JS libraries/frameworks e.g. React Next.js TypeScript and you are interested in expanding your knowledge of these.
• ServerSide rendering with React is in your toolbox.
• You like working collaboratively on challenges and actively sharing and receiving knowledge and learning.
• Experience writing unit and endtoend tests
• Experience with building multilingual applications
• Understanding of UX design principles
• Experience in building/automating CI/CD pipelines
• Selfstarter highly motivated ready to accept challenges willing to take ownership of topics and deliver results
• Knowledge of agile development e.g Scrum or Kanban is a plus
• You are a great communicator and comfortable with an Englishspeaking work environment.

Bonus points:

• Experience with JVM Languages.
• Experience with search technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch Apache Solr Lucene).
• Knowledge of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques.
• Experience working in a startup environment.

Benefits

What We Offer

• The chance to tell a story about being part of the team creating the circular economy for eCommerce and smart consumerism.
• A collaborative dynamic environment where your creativity is valued and encouraged.
• A competitive salary
• Employee stock options
• Health and wellbeing options (including Urban Sport Club)

As part of our team you can look forward to an international and inspiring work environment that encourages you to proactively approach your work and tackle tasks with a lot of freedom at hand. Your ideas are significant to us. Not only is our product portfolio diversification but also the people who work on it. We want you just as you are! Origin religion gender sexual orientation or a severely handicapped degree do not play a role. Ready to make an impact Lets grow together! Are you a fit for the role but arent familiar with our tech stack Apply regardless and well consider you.

Apply now and show us what makes you the Frontend software engineering wizard we need at Faircado!