Junior-Mid Frontend Developer / Ux-Ui Designer

Mindearth; Bardi; Ibrido; EUR 35.000 - 45.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible hybrid work model

Equipment budget

Meal vouchers

Mentorship by senior leadership

Ownership of projects

Access to AI and geospatial tech

Descrizione del lavoro

MindEarth is seeking a Junior-Mid Frontend Developer / UX-UI Designer in Milan. You’ll build interactive web applications with React/TypeScript and craft accessible interfaces, while shaping visuals and usability with designers.

This hybrid role blends coding with design input to turn geospatial data into usable tools. You'll collaborate across disciplines, participate in product discovery, and contribute to a growing component library.

Competenze

• 1–4 years of professional experience building frontend applications with React and TypeScript.
• Solid grasp of modern CSS and experience with Tailwind.
• Demonstrable eye for design, typography, spacing, and color with a portfolio or production apps.
• Interest in accessibility and inclusive design; WCAG familiarity is a bonus.
• Comfort working with designers using Figma or similar tools.
• Good written and spoken English; able to work in a small, async-friendly European team.

Mansioni

• Build and maintain interactive web applications with Next.js or similar, React, and TypeScript.
• Implement map-based visualizations using map libraries.
• Design UI components, layouts, and interaction flows using Tailwind CSS.
• Ensure accessibility: semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, contrast, and screen-reader friendly components.
• Collaborate with data scientists and geospatial engineers to understand data behind interfaces.
• Contribute to a growing internal design system and conventions.

Conoscenze

React

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

UX/UI design

Accessibility

Figma

Product thinking

English

Geospatial concepts

Strumenti

MapLibre

Mapbox GL

Leaflet

D3

WebGL

Next.js

Descrizione del lavoro

About the job

Position: Junior-Mid Frontend Developer / UX-UI Designer

Location

Milan, Italy (hybrid)

Contract Type

Full-time, permanent

Salary Range (gross annual salary)

€35,000 – €45,000

Company Profile

MindEarth is a dynamic Swiss–Italian frontier-tech company at the intersection of advanced machine learning and big data analytics for geospatial intelligence. By integrating satellite imagery, mobility data, and crowd-sourced mapping, we empower organizations across industries to make data-driven decisions that enhance sustainability, improve operational efficiency, and build confidence and resilience in the face of uncertainty. Our solutions enable businesses and governments to extract actionable insights from complex spatial data, transforming them into powerful tools for improving urban resilience, optimizing infrastructure, and managing environmental risk.

Opportunity

MindEarth builds web applications that turn complex geospatial data, satellite imagery, settlement footprints, mobility and socio-economic datasets, into products people can actually use. We're looking for a frontend developer with a strong design sensibility to join our engineering team. This is a hybrid role by design: you'll spend most of your time building interfaces in code, but you'll also shape how they look, feel, and behave. You don't need to be a complete product designer, you need good instincts for visual design and usability, and the curiosity to participate in product discovery rather than just executing tickets. You'll work directly with our Senior Geospatial Full Stack Engineer, who will mentor you on both the engineering and geospatial sides of the work.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain interactive web applications with Next.js or similar, React, and TypeScript
• Implement map-based visualizations using deck.gl and MapLibre GL
• Design UI components, layouts, and interaction flows: from quick Figma explorations to polished, production-ready interfaces styled with Tailwind CSS
• Build interfaces that are accessible by default: semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, sensible contrast and focus states, and screen-reader-friendly components
• Participate in product discovery: help translate loosely-defined problems ("we need to show X to this client") into concrete, well-scoped interfaces
• Iterate on designs based on user feedback, client demos, and internal reviews
• Contribute to a growing internal component library and design conventions
• Collaborate with data scientists and geospatial engineers to understand the data behind the interfaces you build

Your profile

• 1–4 years of professional experience building frontend applications with React and TypeScript
• Solid grasp of modern CSS and experience with Tailwind (or ability to pick it up quickly)
• A demonstrable eye for design: you notice spacing, hierarchy, typography, and color, and your work shows it: a portfolio, side projects, or production apps you're proud of
• An interest in accessibility and inclusive design: awareness of basics like color contrast, keyboard navigation, and semantic markup, and the motivation to keep learning (WCAG familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement)
• Comfort working with designers' tools (Figma or similar) at a practical level: creating mockups, organizing components, handing off or picking up designs
• Interest in product thinking: asking why before how, questioning requirements, proposing simpler solutions
• Good written and spoken English; comfort working in a small, async-friendly European team
• Willingness to learn geospatial concepts (projections, tiles, vector vs. raster data) on the job

Nice to have

• Experience with geospatial or data visualization libraries: , MapLibre, Mapbox GL, Leaflet, D3, or WebGL in general
• Familiarity with Next.js (App Router, SSR/SSG trade-offs)
• Exposure to cloud-native geospatial formats (COG, PMTiles, GeoParquet, GeoZarr) and tiling services
• Experience auditing or improving accessibility in real products (axe, Lighthouse, screen-reader testing, ARIA patterns)
• Experience running or participating in user research, usability testing, or discovery workshops
• Basic Python or backend experience (Node.js APIs, REST)

What we offer

• Flexible hybrid working model with international exposure.
• Budget for equipment
• Meal vouchers
• Direct mentorship from senior engineering and science leadership, including deep geospatial expertise
• Real ownership: small team, short feedback loops, your design decisions ship
• Access to cutting-edge AI, geospatial analytics, and Earth Observation technologies.
• A highly interdisciplinary team combining expertise in data science, engineering, legal, and business development.

Why join Mindearth?

Most frontend roles put you at the end of the pipeline. This one puts you in the room. You'll join a small, interdisciplinary team working on a problem that matters, turning satellite imagery and mobility data into tools that cities, businesses, and governments actually use to build resilience, run infrastructure more efficiently, and manage environmental risk.

The interfaces you build will be the point where complex geospatial science becomes something a decision-maker can act on. That's a rare mix of craft and consequence: you'll shape how these products look and behave, learn the geospatial and engineering fundamentals directly from senior people who do this work every day, and see your decisions ship in weeks rather than quarters. If you want to grow as both a developer and a designer, care about building things that are accessible and well-made, and would rather help figure out what to build than just execute tickets, this is a good place to do it.