Lead Frontend Engineer (f/m/d)

Peopleware is a leader in providing workforce management solutions. Our innovative cloud-based SaaS products optimize workforce processes, helping businesses plan and manage their teams effectively. We’re now looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer (f/m/d) to join our team.

Your mission is to drive operational excellence within the engineering team. You will work closely with fellow engineers to foster collaboration, share knowledge, and enhance code quality. Your role will involve supervising team members, providing guidance and mentorship to ensure best practices are followed, and facilitating continuous improvement in our development processes.

What you’ll do:

• Engineering Leadership: Define, implement, and oversee software development, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.

• Project Involvement: Actively participate in the "Shape-Up" process, contributing to project scoping, solving complex challenges, and shipping high-quality production code.

• Hands-On Development: Engage in coding, troubleshooting, and optimizing alongside engineering. Dive into complex engineering challenges, lead by example, and inspire to achieve excellence.

• Code Quality: Ensure the consistency, integrity, and quality of production code through code reviews, application of development standards, and implementation guidance support for the team.

• Mentorship: Support the growth of engineers by providing constructive feedback and encouraging professional development.

• Design Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the design team to ensure frontend standards align with design abstraction, developing solutions to meet design requirements.

What you bring to the role:

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a minimum of 5 years focused on frontend development.

• Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, React.js, and preferably Next.js.

• Track record of shipping production code at a high rate while maintaining excellent code quality and consistency.

• Proven experience guiding engineers, and implementing architectural decisions and technical standards.

• Strong interpersonal skills with a passion for mentoring and supporting the growth of engineers.

• Effective communication and teamwork skills to work closely with design, product, and backend teams to deliver cohesive solutions.

• Willingness for occasional business trips to our location in Leipzig.

What we offer:

• Benefits: A hybrid working model (2 WFH days weekly), 30 days holiday, job bike, public transport ticket or free parking, company pension scheme, corporate benefits program, high-end IT equipment (including MacBook).

• Feel-good atmosphere: This includes a state-of-the-art office in Düsseldorf’s Medienhafen, free full catering (breakfast, lunch, snacks, drinks), team and company events.

• Flexibility: Do you need to adjust your working hours (part-time/full-time) or take time out (sabbatical) because your life situation has changed? If we are a match, we make many things possible.

• Creative freedom: Bring your ideas to the table, and we'll give you plenty of freedom for your creative development.

• Individual development: We value our employees’ personal growth. So, if you're not just looking for a job but opportunities to develop further, you've come to the right place.

• Further training: Constantly broaden your horizons! At our open spaces, workshops, conferences, in-house meet-ups and events, or learning from mistakes.

• Onboarding: Your direct colleagues will provide you with comprehensive training and will always be on hand to answer your questions.

• ... and lots more.

About Peopleware, in a few words:
Established in 1995, we are developing Software as a Service (SaaS) products for Workforce Management and Digital Education. Thousands of business customers around the globe use our solutions. We value simplicity, trust, and teamwork. You won’t find the usual hierarchical structures here but truly empowered product and customer teams. We are a diverse group of international professionals. On top of that, we are a certified Great Place to Work.

Sounds good? Let's talk next steps:

If this job offer makes your heart skip a beat, don’t wait any longer: Send us your application.

Even if you’re unsure whether you can fulfill all the tasks, are not always one hundred percent convinced of your abilities yourself, or think you don't have enough self-confidence, please don't hesitate to apply with us.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, protected veteran status, or disability status

We’re looking forward to getting to know you.