Senior Frontend Engineer

Who We Are

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients. To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who will join the team responsible for developing a new product that empowers brokers through an intelligent, connected platform that simplifies workflows and fosters collaboration. Working with us, you will become part of an international team developing digital products for the maritime industry. The team you will join is a multifunctional team of developers, all supported by an Engineering Manager and Product Manager.

Responsibilities

• Playing an active role in development and being hands-on alongside other engineers in your team, building out our cutting-edge products

• Setting and shaping what good practice is across the frontend ecosystem, leading technical discussions and decisions from the front, and employing the right tooling and frameworks to do the job

• Directly engaged as part of the embedded product team to help shape the platform, utilizing direct client feedback and industry knowledge, all backed by data-driven evidence

• Developing, testing, and releasing new functions and features

• Participating in planning, creation, and adaptation of a SaaS platform

• Responsible for unit testing your code as well as conducting peer reviews

• Working in the Scrum framework

• Using Azure DevOps for backlog and repository management

• Effective collaboration across a multi-disciplined team, interacting with Product, Architecture, and DevOps functions of the business

• Working in an international team – the team consists of people of different nationalities, so all communication is based on English

Requirements

• Great understanding of English, both spoken and written (B2+)

• Flexibility – We are a growing team working in a dynamic environment that requires engineers to adapt quickly to change

• Responsibility and Ownership – As a senior frontend developer in our team, we need you to have responsibility for the quality of your application(s). Owning your contributions and that of your technical team based on your guidance and technical leadership is vital

• Commitment and proactivity – We need a person who is able to act and show initiative and who cares about the development of the product

• Openness and willingness to cooperate – Our team members work strongly together, are open to helping, and are not afraid to ask questions. We need someone who fits into this kind of supportive and collaborative work style

Core Skills

• Mastery of HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Responsive design experience

• Deep experience in multiple frontend frameworks such as Angular or Vue.js (React must be one of them)

• Extensive experience with testing frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, JUnit, Jasmine, etc.

• Strong knowledge of the latest ECMAScript standards

• Asynchronous programming using a multitude of techniques

• Advanced state management experience with patterns and practices using different libraries

• Good grasp of design principles, accessibility, usability testing

• Cross-browser compatibility knowledge, caching, and performance optimization techniques

• Hands-on experience with building SaaS systems

• Experience with Azure Cloud services

• Mentoring and coaching skills and experience

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills

What you can expect

Despite our dynamic growth, we managed to maintain a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere of a tightly knit team that can implement complex projects comprehensively and effectively. Each of us knows what is expected from us and has adequate space and freedom of action.

The actual work is important, but it’s also essential for us at Clarksons that we all stay happy, relaxed and motivated. That’s why we provide a wide range of benefits to all our employees:

• Private medical care (Luxmed)

• Voluntary group life insurance

• MyBenefit or Multisport card

• Language courses (English and German)

• Mentoring program and numerous internal pieces of training

• Employee referral program

• Paid days off from services (B2B)

• A paid day off to care for your health - “Dzień na U”

• Integration events, joint company trips, birthday celebrations and many other

What we offer

• Salary: DOE 25 000 - 29 000 PLN/month (B2B) or UoP

• Flexible working hours

• You choose how you work - from our office in Poznań or remotely from home, or like most of us, work hybrid

• Strong focus on growth, interesting projects & people who enjoy working with each other!