Lead Front-End Engineer within Digital Service Platform (DSP)

Bedrijfsomschrijving

Introduction

Vanderlande provides baggage handling systems for 600 airports around the globe, capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. For the parcel market our systems handle 52 million parcels per day. All these systems generate data. Do you see a challenge in building data-driven services for our customers using that data? Do you want to contribute to the fast-growing Vanderlande Technology Department on its journey to become more data driven? If so, then join our Digital Service Factory team!

As Lead Front-End Engineer, you will play a critical dual role; This is a leadership position with broad influence across the Digital Service Platform.

Your Position

As Lead Front-End Engineer, you will play a critical dual role:

Technical Expert

• Own the front-end architecture of the MyVanderlande customer portal, a responsive web app that integrates microfrontends and data from other digital services, ERP and CMS.
• Drive the implementation of best-in-class web engineering practices, performance, and scalability.

Technical competence leader

• Set the technical direction for front-end across multiple teams and products for a team of 5 professionals.
• Act as the go-to expert for front-end strategy, architecture, and maintainability.
• Guide and mentor front-end engineers across the platform.
• Lead the Front-End Guild: aligning standards, promoting reusability, and driving technical consistency.
• Partner with architects, product owners, designers, and engineering leads to influence product direction and ensure cohesive solutions.
• Be a champion for user experience, modern tooling, and maintainable design systems.

This is not just a development role - this is a leadership position with broad influence across the Digital Service Platform. You'll have a seat at the table, and your voice will shape the future of customer-facing software at Vanderlande.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop our responsive web application that works well on a variety of screen resolutions and browsers.
• Develop new features for our products and services which provide our customers with actionable information through multiple channels.
• Participate in end-to-end development through prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and further iterations.
• Actively contribute to continuous integration efforts and improvements in our way of working.
• Collaborate with UX designers to develop appealing and intuitive interfaces based on graphic designs or mock-ups.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.
• Ensure code and design quality through code reviews and testing.
• Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and proper integration of front-end features.
• Stay up to date with new front-end technologies, techniques, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Proven experience as a Lead Front-End Engineer in Agile environments - working in or closely with Scrum or Kanban teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills - able to align technical direction across teams, and explain decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent change management and project management skills regarding new tool- or technology introductions or experience with NPI also a plus
• You have recent experience with Angular 15+, Typescript, RxJS, NgRx/Redux, Web Performance, Web Workers, HTML5 (+ markdown), CSS/SCSS.
• Cloud experience with one or more major cloud providers - Azure preferable.
• Strong understanding of declarative- , reactive- , object-oriented programming, web standards, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility.
• You have experience with developer tooling: Git (bitbucket), WSL, container technologies (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes.
• You have experience with and/or skills in UX design/development.
• You have experience using and contributing to a design system.
• You know how to develop secure front-end applications and are familiar with OAuth2.
• A track record of mentoring developers and elevating team capability.

Nice to have skills:

• GraphQl
• CMS (Contentful)
• Cypress / Playwright
• DevOps tooling for test automation and CI/CD.
• Understanding of back-end development in Java.
• Understand how to translate front end needs to back-end requirements and vice versa.

What we offer

In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.