Senior Front-end Developer

We are searching for a Senior Front-end Developer with experience in NodeJS, TypeScript, and VueJS. Studyportals Headquarters is in Strijp-S, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Flexibility to work remotely. 

About Studyportals

We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. Every minute 100 students around the world trust our platforms (e.g., mastersportal.com) to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts. 

With 35+ different nationalities among the 200+ people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people. Eager to learn and serious about fun. Want to know more? 

Why are we searching for you? 

To help as many students as possible, we need to build and improve our functionality to grow significantly in users and conversion through technical excellence and next-level product thinking. New (internal) tooling to help the content generation (using AI), client campaigns, revenue tracking and much more. Our goal is to help students to find their best matching dream study. You contribute by writing kick-ass code! 
In short; there are enough (technical) challenges for you to dig in to. We value initiative greatly! 

What are your three main goals? 

• Rebuild our content management approach by leveraging AI-powered mass editing and review capabilities, ensuring content accuracy and clarity for students across all portals while maintaining quality standards.

• Creating new functionality, and optimizing the existing system, to grow the number of identified enrolments and revenue processes.

• Help us to become more scalable as a platform, by decoupling our dependencies and driving our microservice architecture. Staying in control of quality is key! 

How does your team look like? 

The Product Engineering department consists of 35 people. You are part of a scrum team of five. Your Product Owner (PO) sets the product priorities. You are, together with the Product Owner, responsible for designing and implementing new functionalities aimed at growing our user engagement targets. This means that you, as a developer, have influence on what to build, and how to build it. You report to our Software Engineering team Lead. He started as a developer at Studyportals and knows his way around the systems. His main responsibility is to make sure you can do your work in the best possible way, taking away impediments, driving technical innovation and making sure you can be the best version of yourself.

What Tech Stack do we use? 

The technology behind Studyportals’ platforms is based on VueJS, Typescript, Node/NPM, PHP, Docker and AWS. Virtually all our systems have been developed in-house and are following modern quality standards. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS. In parallel, we are scaling up our infrastructure, moving towards SOC2 compliance. 

We also experiment with new technologies when they help us innovate faster or smarter - from AI tooling to emerging frameworks.

Requirements:
• At least a bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or a related field. 

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Front-end Developer. 

• Experience building applications in JavaScript component-based frameworks (e.g., VueJS, React or Angular). Modern JavaScript, TypeScript, NPM, and Webpack. Proficient in both Front-end and Back-end development. 

• HTML5 and SCSS/CSS3 are second nature to you, and you care about performance, accessibility, and responsive design. 

• You have a proven track record of architecting and implementing performant and scalable front-end applications.

• Experience with (different types of) automated testing as part of CI/CD driven software development. 

• You write clean, modular, and maintainable code, following SOLID and modern software design principles. 

• You like to collaborate, appreciate open communication, and are comfortable with working cross-functionally.

Benefits:
• Competitive salary including a bonus and pension
• 32 vacation days (including bank holidays) you have the flexibility to take your holidays whenever you want (e.g., be off on Chinese New Year instead of King’s Day)
• Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs
• Flexibility to work remotely 3 days per week, including a remote working allowance
• Possibility to work from abroad 2 times a year
• An annual personal development budget because personal growth is KEY!
• A nice and fun office in the heart of Eindhoven; five minutes’ walk away from the station