Contract Frontend JavaScript Engineer Remote (GMT)

Contract Senior Software Engineer (React/Node)

Remote EU

Contract Senior Software Engineer (React/Node)

About YLD

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We're a team of curious, talented people, and we're committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.

We're a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer at YLD, you'll be part of a client team building innovative products. We're looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You're also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you'll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects.

You'll have the following skills and experience:

• Commercial experience working with React and Node;
• Thoughtful about Component composition and state management, with experience in multiple patterns (e.g. MobX, Redux, Context, etc);
• Knowledge and experience with the up-to-date transpiling, bundling, and packaging ecosystem (e.g. esbuild, vite, yarn, turborepo, etc);
• Experience with documentation generation tools, both for libraries and for components;
• Opinionated and experienced with linting and formatting tools;
• Strong and vast experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, as well as Infrastructure as Code tools and techniques;
• Experience in testing your products with Unit, Integration, End-to-End, and Visual Regression tests;
• Used to design tools (e.g. Figma) and its API and integration tools;
• Extensive experience working with Design Systems.
• Knowledge of TypeScript;

You'll be:

• Self-motivated, proactive and continually looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You'll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail-oriented;
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

What you'll get in return