Why Recharge.com 👀
We are the leading one-stop-shop for branded payments, making online recharge possible for anyone, anywhere at any time — whether you or someone you love needs credit for calling, gaming, entertainment or money. This is your chance to join an ambitious scaleup in a state of rapid growth; we’ll push you to develop yourself and help you create a real impact in your role. Put simply: we could write history together.
We won’t bore you with a corporate spiel about how we might be taking on the world of branded payments (spoiler: we are). Instead, we’ll let the numbers speak for themselves: +$70 million in funding (and counting!), +13000 products, +$500M sales, 3M customers, a presence in +160 countries, 6 consumer brands, a team of 150+ employees and 42+ nationalities, and 1 person missing — you.
We’re on the hunt for the hungriest and most passionate talent out there. If at any point your brain screams “I want in!” while you’re reading this, then consider this the sign you’ve been looking for: we want you too.
The Role 💡
We’re looking for an ambitious and experienced Frontend Tech lead (React) to join our growing team in Amsterdam, Reporting to our Engineering Manager, Joshua Collins.
The engineering department consists of around 60 engineers, mostly based in Amsterdam, but we also have an office based in Lisbon! As a senior engineer you will work closely alongside the autonomous team to plan, refine and deliver using agile Scrum. You’ll be supporting more junior engineers within the team to develop and grow, while also maintaining technical excellence. You’ll also work with the related guild to support cross team initiatives and guide decisions. You’ll be responsible for discovering, and planning technical challenges, working closely with the other engineers and tech lead to validate the value of technical work, supporting architectural designs and the implementation of critical initiatives.
What will I do? 🤔
Be an owner of the frontend, bringing technical seniority to guide us with taking informed decisions.
Hands on code contribution, and working with the team to architect business critical solutions.
Lead technical initiatives in the team and supporting other teams with implementation.
Act as a senior and assist the tech lead with establishing best practices, improve processes and enable technical excellence.
advocate the use of common components and services to reduce development effort and increase consistency and for modern development practices.
Improve and support observability across our frontend services.
Work with the engineering manager to identify and develop your skills and support others in the team with technical growth.
Coach and develop others on your areas of seniority and support a community with diverse skill sets.
Must haves
5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in Senior role
Strong knowledge and experience working with JavaScript, Typescript and React and related technologies Sass, Tailwind, Redux, Webpack etc
Experience working on, launching and running critical, high-performance, distributed, fault tolerant systems.
Experience working with micro-frontend architecture.
An agile/lean mindset. You’ll have worked in a customer focused and product oriented team.
Comfortable with using monitoring tools such as Datadog, Sentry, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana etc
Solid knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity
Experience with testing and code quality tools for Frontend applications
Strong communication and ability to work with technical individual contributors and business partners
Strong communication by being adaptable and sharing ideas in a clear concise manner and you practice active listening.
Good to have
You are data driven and understand the need for technical decisions that have business value
Solid understanding of CI/CD
Experience with developing for AWS
Experience with high-load software development
Experience with GitLab/Github
What we offer 🥳
Competitive salary
30 days of holiday, a great pension scheme, and one of the best relocation packages in Amsterdam
Flexible hybrid working hours and a stunning office overlooking the Amstel
MacBook Pro (14" or 16") + associated design hardware
Budget for noise-canceling headphones, travel to and from the office, working from home and self learning
Free healthy breakfast, lunch and snacks by our in-house chef
Weekly sport activities
Travel allowance for your commute
Free Dutch classes to help out with daily life in the Netherlands
Regular parties, pub quizzes, team events, celebrations and other fun stuff
Find out more about our company culture, values, and big wins at company.recharge.com, our Instagram Page on Lifeatrecharge or meet some of our team in the video below.
Proactive acquisition from 3rd parties is not appreciated.