Senior Frontend Engineer; React​/TypeScript, Startup Environment Europe

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Senior Frontend Engineer (React / Type Script, Startup Environment)

WAND is an innovative startup focused on transforming the way people connect with technology through smart, user-centered solutions. By combining cutting‑edge development with intuitive design, WAND empowers businesses and individuals to work more efficiently, make better decisions, and unlock new opportunities for growth. Driven by creativity and impact, the company aims to build tools that are both powerful and accessible.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, high‑quality frontend applications using React and Type Script

Own features end-to-end — from ambiguous product requirements through technical design, implementation, testing, and release

Architect maintainable frontend systems with a strong focus on performance, usability, and long‑term extensibility

Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate business needs into effective technical solutions

Operate effectively in a fast‑moving startup environment, balancing speed with engineering quality

Proactively identify technical debt and drive pragmatic improvements to architecture, tooling, and development workflows

Write clean, well‑structured, and well‑documented code that sets a high engineering standard

Participate in and elevate code reviews through thoughtful, constructive feedback

Optimize application performance through measurement, analysis, and modern frontend techniques

Implement robust testing strategies across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end layers

Integrate frontend systems with REST and/or Graph

QL APIs reliably and securely

Use AI‑assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate delivery while maintaining correctness and architectural integrity

Evaluate AI‑generated output critically, identifying edge cases, security risks, and performance concerns

Contribute to CI/CD practices and support reliable deployment pipelines

Help define and refine engineering processes as the organization scales

Operate across multiple projects or codebases, maintaining consistency and quality standards

Communicate technical decisions clearly and document important architectural choices

Support a calm, solution‑oriented engineering culture, especially during high‑pressure situations

Comfortable working in a startup environment with evolving requirements and immature processes

Able to remain effective under time pressure, changing priorities, and uncertainty

Proactively helps shape and improve processes rather than waiting for them to be defined

Maintains a calm, solution‑oriented mindset during high‑pressure situations

Understands that early‑stage products require pragmatism, ownership, and adaptability

• Strong experience with React (hooks, context, controlled/uncontrolled components, composition patterns)
• Solid knowledge of state management (React Context, Redux, Zustand, or similar)
• Experience building scalable, maintainable frontend architectures
• Strong grasp of HTML, CSS
  , and modern styling approaches (CSS Modules, Styled Components, Tailwind, etc.)
• Understanding of performance optimization (memoization, rendering behavior, code splitting, bundle analysis)
• Experience with testing (unit, integration, and basic E2E; e.g. Jest, Testing Library, Playwright/Cypress)
• Familiarity with frontend build tools and ecosystems (Vite, Webpack, Babel, npm/yarn/pnpm)
• Experience integrating with REST and/or Graph
  
  QL APIs
• Writes clean, readable, and well‑documented code
• Comfortable with code reviews and providing constructive feedback
• Able to identify technical debt and propose pragmatic improvements
• Understands trade‑offs between speed, quality, and long‑term maintainability
• Experience working in CI/CD environments

• Comfortable using AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor, Claude etc.) as part of the development workflow
• Able to critically evaluate AI‑generated code
  , identify mistakes, edge cases, and security/performance issues
• Uses AI to accelerate development without sacrificing code quality or architectural integrity
• Understands when not to rely on AI and when manual problem‑solving is required

Able to work closely with designers, backend engineers, and product managers

Understands product requirements and translates them into technical solutions

Can independently drive tasks from ambiguity to implementation

Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

Comfortable operating across multiple projects or codebases simultaneously

Able to quickly understand existing architectures and business domains

Can prioritize work, switch context efficiently, and manage competing demands

Maintains consistency and quality across projects with different constraints

Location:

Other, Central Europe

Senior

Technologies:

JS, Next.js, Node.js, React, React Native, Type Script