Frontend Engineer; Benelux

Overview

Lateral stands for technology excellence. We’re a profitable, award-winning design and technology company with over 20 years of experience launching bold ventures and transforming businesses. A globally distributed team of 200+ experts united by a shared purpose: the continuous pursuit of quality. Our clients come to us for results, quality and craft - and stay because we keep raising the bar.

As a Frontend Engineer at Lateral, you will:

• Craft delightful digital experiences: Design, implement, and maintain front-end features using React and modern JavaScript/Type Script. You’ll create reusable UI components and craft polished, responsive interfaces with a focus on quality
• Collaborate & communicate: Work closely with designers, back-end developers, and product managers in an asynchronous workflow. You’ll regularly communicate with clients to clarify requirements, demo features, and ensure we’re building the right thing.
• Optimize, Iterate & improve: Involve yourself in brainstorming and technical discussions. Ensure our apps are fast, accessible, and reliable. You’ll profile and improve page load times, refine animations, and tackle browser-specific quirks so that every user gets a smooth experience. When issues arise, you’ll dive in to debug and fix them, striving for robust solutions that scale (and writing tests to prevent regressions)
• Learn: Stay curious and keep up with industry trends, frameworks, and standards. You’ll be encouraged to continuously learn and bring in knowledge, evaluating new technologies thoughtfully to see if they can enhance our product or developer experience (we love learning, but avoid “innovation for innovation’s sake”). In short, you’ll help shape a culture of excellence, ownership, and growth on the team.

• Large scale B2B2C Commerce Platform: Help build a responsive, mobile-first experience for an international e-commerce client. For example, you might lead a dynamic multi-faceted search or a smooth checkout flow
• Develop from scratch an application: Collaborate with a senior backend engineer/architect to build a modern application. You’ll be involved in everything from crafting components to API definition.
• Real-Time Medical Dashboard: Develop front-end features for a real-time analytics dashboard for a pet healthcare client. You might use libraries like AGCharts to visualize large data sets, implement live updates via websockets, and ensure the interface remains highly performant and user-friendly.

Whatever the challenge, you’ll be building software that changes lives and moves industries forward.

We are seeking for team members who are both highly technical and deeply care about their craft and how the work gets done. You must bring:

• 5+ years of professional front-end development experience building digital applications. Experience with modern Java script libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack...), fluency in CSS
• Proven ability to craft, polish, delight
  , sweat the details. You have an eye for design and UX. Pixel-perfect isn’t just a phrase to you – you care about creating beautiful, intuitive interfaces that make users happy. An understanding of design principles and attention to details like accessibility and responsive layout is important.
• Quality and reliability You take pride in building high-quality software. You’re diligent about testing and documentation, and you proactively debug issues before they become problems. Performance and browser compatibility matter to you – you know how to make a web app fast and handle the quirks of different environments. Ultimately, you balance speed of delivery with maintainability, ensuring the code you ship today won’t be tech debt tomorrow.
• Self-driven and accountable: You’re comfortable managing your own projects and time without heavy oversight. When you take on a task, we can count on you to see it through with a sense of ownership. You’re a proactive problem solver who can break down complex problems, propose solutions, and drive them to completion. We trust our team members to be “managers of one” who take initiative and deliver results
• Great…