Senior Front-end Developer

Amsterdam - In this role as a senior frontend developer you will help create the best experience for delivering news to millions of users. 
Our Selectives development teams create the best user experience for our premium publishing brands: De Volkskrant, Trouw, Het Parool, De Morgen, HUMO, Margriet, Libelle and Flair. We are building and running a white-label platform for all these brands including web, mobile, tablets, and backend. You will join one of our 6 teams and build technology with Next.js and Typescript.

What you will be doing
You’ll be working in a full-stack team, both web and app development, to deliver new features like podcast pages, playlists or article enrichments. Everything to enrich the experience for our visitors and enable the editorial team to bring the news in the best possible way. You will also be working together with other front-end developers from different teams.
Currently we're working at the office every Thursday. Most other days we work remotely.While building new web frontend features for our platform you will always strive for the best code quality and apply the necessary security measures. You will also work closely with the Product Owner, our (UX) designers and business stakeholders. Your main tasks are:

• You build it, you run it: designing, coding, testing, deploying, implementing new features and doing day-to-day operations for all our websites

• Identify bottlenecks and improve the system to make it more robust, scalable and work fluently.

• Share knowledge with our other web frontend developers and together make sure our platform grows and moves in the right direction

Who you are
For this position, we expect a senior level of maturity and some years of experience with high traffic websites. Naturally asking questions and proactively giving suggestions to see where you can add value. We’re looking for someone who likes taking initiative with a collaborative attitude. You have deep knowledge of:

• React
• Next.js
• Typescript

And experience with:

• Storybook

• Monorepo

• Jest / Playwright

• Nodejs

• WAI (Accessibility)

We offer

• An experience-based salary

• 12% personal choice budget (of which is 8% holiday allowance)

• Participating in profit every year.

• 36-hour working week

• Over 350 training opportunities in our own academy. We also pay for your training that isn't in our academy. If you'd like to become TOGAF certified, we'd be happy to offer you this.

• Does a physical newspaper or magazine on your doormat make you happy? We offer you a subscription of your choice!

• We also offer travel allowance, a flexible work allowance and a staff discount for specific options.

• There is also knowledge sharing from our tech colleagues

Even more reasons to work at DPG Media
At DPG Media, we work for more than 90 strong news brands, magazines, television shows, radio stations, and online services such as Qmusic, NU.nl, Tweakers, Libelle, and VTM. Although we look like a media group, we are really a tech company. We get digital transformation done.

We offer a high-performing tech workplace where we treasure freedom, from how you find solutions to choosing your path. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, an apprentice, a team player, and, of course, to be you. We welcome everyone to apply, whatever your background may be. A great bunch of smart colleagues awaits you and are eager for you to join the team, whether that be a project team, a pub quiz team, or a sports team.

Learn what we have to offer you or get to know our tech company! And while you’re at it, you can find us on LinkedIn and Twitter too.