Frontend Software Engineer

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid in-office (London) 2 days/week

Global, impact-driven company

Autonomous product teams

Informal, supportive culture

Job summary

Too Good To Go is building a brand-new engineering hub in London and seeks foundational Frontend Software Engineers to join a new team. You’ll define, build, and deliver product features, collaborating with a global tech organization to refine, design, and maintain an international top-class product.

We use a React/TypeScript stack with RTK Query, MUI, and routing. You’ll contribute to scalable, accessible interfaces and work in a hybrid setup with some in-office time in London.

Qualifications

• Proven production experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, DOM manipulation, HTML, and CSS/MUI.
• Strong experience in modern frontend web development.
• Deep understanding of React.js, its core principles, and modern patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve frontend applications and user interfaces.
• Implement responsive, reliable visual elements and interactive workflows.
• Collaborate in an agile team to deliver high-quality code and features.
• Participate in ongoing improvements to performance and accessibility.
• Work on international product features across multiple languages.

Skills

Modern frontend development

JavaScript/TypeScript

React.js

State management (Redux/RTK)

HTML/CSS/MUI

Testing/CI (Jest, Playwright)

RESTful APIs

Cross-browser compatibility

Tools

React

TypeScript

RTK Query

MUI

Vite/Webpack

Git

Job description

At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.

40% of all food produced in the world is wasted. And that has a huge impact on the health of our planet, with 10% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food waste.

We’re more than an app: we are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste, so alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions - such as our Retail Technologies offering, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.

We’re growing fast: Our community of 127 million registered users and 253,000 active partners across 20 countries, have together already prevented 489+ million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 1.322.000 tonnes of CO2e!

The Role

We are building a brand-new engineering hub in London, and we are looking for foundational Frontend Software Engineers to help us kick it off. This is a unique opportunity: you will be joining a completely new team, building a new hub from scratch, and working remotely from the rest of our global Tech organisation.

As an integral part of this new product team, you will help define, build, and deliver our product features. You will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best way to achieve them together with your team. Your mission will be to help refine, design, implement, deliver, and maintain an international top-class product, ensuring quality, maintainability, and sustainability.

The Tech Stack

We have created a single-page React application localized into multiple languages with TypeScript, RTK Query, MUI, and react-router. Developers typically run the SPA locally with Vite or Webpack DevServer (including hot module replacement) against endpoints on test servers.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our frontend applications and user-facing infrastructure to stay ahead of our growth curve.
• Develop exciting new features for our customers, partner businesses, and internal systems to improve usability and operational efficiency.
• Implement responsive, reliable, and intuitive visual elements and interactive workflows across web applications.
• Actively participate in your team’s agile development processes with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Strive to deliver international top-class products with maximum quality, performance, maintainability, and accessibility.
• Take on additional tasks outside your current boundaries with help from your team to continue to grow and expand your skills.

The Ideal Candidate

• Strong experience in modern frontend web development.
• Proven production experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, DOM manipulation, HTML, and CSS/MUI.
• Deep understanding of React.js, its core principles (state, props, context, hooks), and modern architectural patterns.
• Experience with state management solutions (e.g., Redux / RTK Query, React Context API) and client-side routing.
• Experience with common frontend tooling, testing, and CI frameworks (e.g., Vite/Webpack, NPM, ESLint, Jest, Playwright).
• Proven success in building scalable, responsive visual interfaces with strong cross-browser compatibility and user experience design sensibilities.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, modern integration patterns, and code versioning tools like Git.
• Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team and takes pride in writing clean, high-quality code.

Our Values

• We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We believe in a #oneteam.
• We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another.
• We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple.
• We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving.
• We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing.

What We Have To Offer

• An opportunity to work in a global social-impact company and certified B Corporation! where you can see a real and tangible impact in your role.
• To be an integral member of our defined product teams. We are eager for you to make an impact and contribute to the product scope and development; Your insights are valuable, and we are here to listen.
• Work-life balance is important to us! Focus on the job to be done, not the hours spent, there is no need for overtime. On-call duty is not part of the job, but can be additionally agreed upon should you and your manager both wish it. We believe that happy environments create happy employees.
• We trust in our employees and encourage an autonomous environment that provides several opportunities for employees to contribute, develop and take ownership of their work in a way that works for them.
• To be part of an international company, with over 1,300+ colleagues across 20 countries that are on the same important mission.
• An informal environment, working alongside 190+ passionate people within Tech & Product.
• We celebrate our differences and our successes and have a strong values-driven team culture.
• We work in a hybrid set-up and value in office work weekly (2 days in office).

A Movement for Everyone
We want to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together. With that mission, it’s only natural that we want to build a diverse and inclusive team of highly capable individuals who are passionate about doing things in a better way. We strongly believe we all excel and are more creative when we’re allowed to be ourselves, and we’re committed to a culture where all of us belong.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.