Frontend Lead Developer - React

About CheckYeti

Choose from the widest selection of certified ski schools, instructors & guides and book your winter sport experience online. The Yeti will give you a (furry) hand!

CheckYeti is the leading online platform and mobile app to book winter sports activities in Europe. More than 2,500 offers from local ski schools, ski instructors and mountain guides in the most popular ski resorts of the Alps are listed. From kids courses to snowboard lessons and freeride tours - instructors and schools can be found, compared and booked online right away. That’s how holidaymakers and mountain sport enthusiasts from over 50 countries have already found their ideal winter sport offer on CheckYeti.

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Position

• Lead front-end development of our web platform into a Single Page Application and Progressive Web App
• Proactively contribute to UX/design, development standards and technologies used
• Design front-end component architecture ensuring high performance, easy maintenance & strong security
• Design and implement pages optimized for SEO and SEM
• Write end-to-end, component and unit tests to ensure high quality and well tested features
• Apply progressive web app best practices to enhance user experience
• Ensure consistent and predictable delivery with a focus on performance, compatibility and security
• Stay on top of current technology trends and monitor the design, performance and advancement of similar products across the online travel/activities booking industry

Your qualification

• 5+ years of front-end development experience
• Experience creating the architecture of mid/large size React applications
• Expert knowledge of React/ES6, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, LESS or Sass, WebPack and Gulp
• Experience in TDD, BDD using tools such as Jest, Enzyme, WebDriver.io, Mocha, Karma or Chai
• Experience with REST libraries such as fetch or axios
• Knowledge of SEO best practices in SPAs built with React
• A strong sense for good screen design/usability combined with very high quality standards
• Experience with consumer-oriented web/mobile products, ideally e-commerce websites and/or online booking platforms
• Desire to take ownership and ability to thrive on that (taking on responsibility is expected)
• High level of personal commitment and flexibility
• Hands-on team player, active communicator and open for feedback
• Fluency in English is essential (working language), German is an advantage

Will be a plus

Familiarity with Progressive Web Apps best practices

What we offer

• Exciting role in our core development team with great freedom to initiate and implement own ideas
• An ambitious & experienced team with a clear vision in a fast growing start-up environment
• Regular team events (“Outdoor Friday” - sledging, skiing, rafting, mountain biking...)
• Regular trips to Vienna or relocation to Vienna (officially the best city on this planet to live in ;)
• Attractive salary + performance-based bonus