JavaScript Lead Engineer (Frontend Architect)

About Harver

Harver is an extraordinary recruitment software scale-up. Our SaaS product enables innovative organisations like Heineken, Booking.com and Netflix to hire better and faster. Together, as a team, we help companies build more diverse, inclusive teams by hiring based on data, not intuition. We imagine a world where teams are hired based on ability and personality and not purely on their resume.

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Position

JavaScript Lead Engineer will be creating a shared direction through front end architecture whilst guiding the engineering team to a common goal with your technical leadership.

But... you will be doing much, much more - this isn’t a corporate. Gerald, your future peer and hiking enthusiast explains: “our role is all about making things easier to do in the future, but it's not all high level, I still get to code every single day”. Together with your teammates and, Phil our Engineering Head who loves tech such as: GraphQl, MobX and React, you will be impacting our business and disrupting the industry by:

• Leading the holistic design of Harver's software systems; co-owning the overall architecture within the lead engineering team of 3
• Enabling the whole team to deliver the business roadmap
• Supporting and delegating design and architecture of subsystems to senior engineers
• Mentoring senior and medior engineers
• Promoting good software engineering principles
• Re-building frameworks for easier and quicker module creations
• Understanding our legacy platform and recommending big but feasible changes
• Continually innovating on our recruitment application process
• Owning the delivery software from development to production

Your qualification

• BSc or MSc in computer science or a similar subject
• You understand good engineering practices and your communication of these practices is exemplary (BDD & TDD, CI/CD, pair programming)
• You are a JavaScript guru with superb knowledge in React, Node.JS & GraphQL
• Experience in Frontend Architecture
• You have the ability to self manage and take care of changing requirements
• Hands-on approach to products
• You like to fail, succeed, and learn together, but also like to have some fun whilst doing so
• You worked on a SaaS product before, so you understand the fast turn around
• You believe in building a culture of testing (we'd love it if you've used Jest/ Mocca/ Cucumber/ Chai)

Will be a plus

• Experience within the B2B industry
• Angular experience
• AWS, Lambda and Jenkins knowledge

What we offer

• A position within Amsterdam’s most promising startup
• Working on the front-end for global clients like Heineken, Netflix, Booking and Vodafone
• Working within an Amsterdam office and a team of 60 with 19+ nationalities 
• The latest MacBook
• Personal bonus half a year
• Personal development budget
• Commuting allowance
• Employee stock appreciation rights program
• Employer pension contribution
• Healthy lunch
• In-house Nutritionist (from time to time!) 
• The opportunity to join HarverFIT
• A breathtaking view from our 7th floor office 
• The chance to watch Sci-Fi films with your colleagues
• You'll be landing on the right side of history