Frontend Product Engineer, Senior

Senior Frontend Product Engineer

Valencia, Spain - Hybrid

We are Datamaran: a fast-paced, energetic and high-growth technology company.

Datamaran is the only software analytics platform in the world that identifies and monitors external risks, including ESG. Trusted by blue-chip companies and top tier partners, it brings a data-driven business process for external risk and materiality analysis. In house - at any time. At Datamaran our mission is to positively impact the world by helping corporations to have a robust sustainability strategy with our SaaS platform. Literally, the software helps our clients to make the world a better place with ESG strategy decision-making! Now, we need you to help to accelerate this transformation.

We recognise that people of different backgrounds widen our perspective, so we’re committed to diversity, equality and inclusion in everything we do. Datamaran is proud to be an equal opportunity employer as such all applications received will be considered without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.

Our eclectic team of talented individuals represent over 25 nationalities, with 50% of our leaders being female. Datamaran is a fully digital and distributed company, already with over 100 members of staff working across the globe, with offices in London, Valencia, New York and the Netherlands.

Such a unique mix makes Datamaran a unique, collaborative and ambitious workplace.

Our growing and dynamic engineering team is looking for an energetic Senior Frontend Engineer to join one of our cross-functional product teams. The ideal candidate will bring a substantial depth of knowledge in front-end web technologies, will play a significant role in shaping the user experience and function of our web applications, and will not shy away from getting hands-on in back-end and API work as needed. She/He will also actively contribute to all stages of Datamaran User Centric product development and display a keen interest in latest innovative technologies such as generative AI.

In this integral position, we’ll look to you not only for your comprehensive technical knowledge in front end development, but also for your contribution to product discovery through brainstorming, problem-solving and alignment sessions with the broader team. Your experience will be crucial in guiding more junior engineers on your team, ensuring we build and deliver truly user-centric and innovative products.

A one thousand feet view of our tech stack:

• Our web application is built on vue.js, node.js and javascript
• Our data stores include ElasticSearch, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
• Our server side and data pipelines are built in Python and FastAPI
• Everything is hosted on AWS, on EC2 or in lambda functions

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, build, and enhance Datamaran web application
• Work closely with UI/UX designers, product managers and other roles in an agile team to develop and implement new features
• Debug, deploy, and maintain large scale web applications
• Participate in product discovery phases, bring invaluable insights regarding user-needs and potential solutions

Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional front-end development experience across several projects, with a focus on HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6+), Node.JS. Nice if you have some experience with Typescript
• Proven expertise with Vue.js (if you have experience with another frontend framework/library such as React, Angular, Svelte, etc.) and want to work with Vue, it might also be considered).
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards
• Must have experience with source control systems like Git
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to quality
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Embraces and promotes development best practices, such as SOLID, unit testing, CI/CD

Bonus points and nice-to-have

• Experience with web performance optimisation
• Some knowledge of backend frameworks in Python, like FastAPI, or demonstrable experience working with back-end technologies
• An appetite for learning new technologies
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Mongo DB and ElasticSearch
• Familiarity with DevOps and AWS, as well as Docker

If you are passionate about front-end development, agile methodologies and want to be part of a close-knit Scrum team, we would love to hear from you!

Note to recruiters:
Thank you for your ongoing interest in Datamaran but there is no need reach out to the Hiring Team, HR, Recruiting.... We receive hundreds of approaches from recruiters but would confirm here that we are all set. We will continue to scale Datamaran successfully through our internal recruiting team and team initiatives. We appreciate your cooperation!

Benefits

• A salary above Spain-average for this position
• Flexible hours
• Hybrid working, with typically circa 3 days with the team in the Valencia hub
• 11€ per day meal-allowance + food and snacks at the office (and paellas!)
• Private health
• Private pension (company doubles your saving)
• Best equipment: choose between Mac or Linux
• Frequent training, budget for conferences, OReilly subscription
• Access to Urban Sports
• International environment (over 25 nationalities), with 50% of our leaders being women, and almost 50% of our tech team too
• Working in a climate-tech company, helping corporations to identify ESG risks