Senior Frontend Engineer

Location: We are flexible Come and join us in either Hamburg, Berlin, Barcelona or Athens

We are looking for a talented and motivated Senior Frontend Engineer for one of our teams in the Supply Operations Intelligence domain.

As part of a highly skilled cross-functional team which comprises of FE Engineers, BE Engineers, Product Designer, Product Manager and headed up by a very technical Engineering Manager, you will help shape the future of mobility with FREENOW and simplify people's lives in the city.

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

Daily Agile Ceremony Meetings:

• Attend daily standups to provide updates on progress, discuss and support with blockers, and plan the day's work.

Planning & Task Estimation:

• Take ownership of the frontend architecture and contribute to defining the technical roadmap and long-term strategy for the team's products.
• Participate in planning sessions to estimate and commit to tasks.
• Break down user stories into actionable frontend tasks.

Development of UI Components:

• Write and maintain clean, modular, and scalable code.
• Implement responsive and accessible UI components based on design mockups.

Code Reviews:

• Conduct thorough, constructive code reviews, acting as a gatekeeper for consistency, security, and adherence to best practices.
• Receive feedback on your own code and make necessary adjustments.

Unit & Integration Testing:

• Write and maintain unit tests for frontend components.
• Implement integration tests to ensure seamless interaction between frontend and backend.

Debugging & Troubleshooting:

• Identify and resolve bugs or performance issues in the application.

Collaboration:

Collaborate with other front-end engineers in the company on initiatives around continuous integration and deployment, accessibility, performance, logging and monitoring

• Work closely with your cross-functional team consistent of Backend Engineers, Product Manger, and Designers to align on implementation details, define API contract and drive feature delivery
• Define and discuss API contracts and request modifications as needed.

Documentation:

• Document new components, libraries, or features for future reference and onboarding purposes.
• Update existing documentation to reflect any changes made during development.

Delivery:

• Participate in refinement sessions to clarify user stories and ensure they have clear acceptance criteria.
• Championing best practices across the organisation and fostering an environment of growth and technical excellence.

Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing:

• Share knowledge with the team, our frontend chapter and company wide initiatives.

Reviews & Retrospectives:

• Demonstrate features during reviews.
• Participate in retrospectives to discuss what went well, what could be improved, and plan action items for the next sprint.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvements, champion innovation, and actively lead efforts to reduce and manage technical debt across the domain.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE...

To be successful in this role your tech stack must include a deep knowledge of:

• React (advanced component architecture, hooks, performance optimization)
• - Projects with App Router and Pages Router
• Typescript and moderns ES2024 standards
• Testing Library
• React Server Components
• Clean code practices, component composition, and modular design principles
• Microfrontends and scalable frontend architecture

And it would be awesome if you had some exposure to:

• CSS-in-JS (with support for React Server Components)
• Playwright
• Products that are multilanguage
• Semantic release
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub / GitLab)
• Automated versioning and releases (Semantic Release)
• Component libraries and UI documentation (Storybook)
• Web Accessibility
• Defining and executing technical vision and strategy
• Demonstrating technical leadership and team management skills
• Exhibiting strong cross-team collaboration abilities
• Driving process improvements, innovation, and effectively managing technical debt

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

• Flexible working arrangements

• LinkedIn Learning

• Sabbatical & special leave policies

• WeRoad partnership

• Birthday, 24th + 31st December off

• Short term EU work policy

• Mobility Credit

• Health Insurance

• Employee assistance program

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:

FREE NOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.

We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.

SEE WHAT OUR AWESOME COLLEAGUES SAY ABOUT US:
ABOUT FREENOW:

We are Freenow, the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities. Our app gives millions of passengers the freedom to move with a wide choice of services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and public transport.Headquartered in Hamburg and led by our CEO Thomas Zimmermann, we are on a mission to make urban mobility more efficient, sustainable and inclusive.Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together we are building a more caring and connected world, creating new opportunities for innovation, growth and impact.

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