Energy Platform Frontend Lead - React/TS

Covolt; Veghel; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Covolt in Veghel is hiring a Frontend Developer to own the frontend across customer, partner, and internal apps built with React and TypeScript. You will transform UX designs into scalable, performant interfaces and contribute to a shared design system.

You will lead the frontend architecture, advance AI-ready components, and collaborate closely with UX, backend, and data teams to ensure fast, reliable energy platform experiences for customers and partners.

Qualifications

• Proven production frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of component architecture, state management, rendering performance, and frontend best practices.
• Experience working with design systems, reusable components, and established frontend patterns.
• Experience translating Figma designs and UX flows into production-ready applications.
• Good understanding of UI, usability, and consistency across applications.
• Experience integrating REST APIs and working with JSON data.
• Affinity with backend development and willingness to make smaller changes in Python/Django/DRF.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and relational data models.
• Experience with Git, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Independent and proactive mindset. You can turn an ambiguous request into a concrete technical proposal and deliver it.
• Good communication skills in both Dutch and English.

Responsibilities

• Develop and extend Covolt's client-facing applications, partner portals, and internal tooling using React and TypeScript.
• Translate UX designs, user flows, and prototypes into production-ready frontend applications.
• Build and maintain reusable components, frontend patterns, and a shared design system.
• Prepare the design system for AI-assisted development by structuring components, design tokens, and documentation for AI tools.
• Develop interactive dashboards and data visualizations for energy flows, SoC, curtailment, revenues, alarms, and asset performance.
• Work with large volumes of real-time and time-series data ensuring clarity and responsiveness.
• Optimize frontend performance, rendering efficiency, and state management across apps with many assets and data points.
• Integrate frontend apps with REST APIs and backend services.
• Collaborate with UX/Product Design from earliest stages, providing feasibility and performance feedback.
• Work with backend/data teams to improve API integrations and, where needed, implement smaller backend changes in Python/Django/DRF.
• Maintain frontend architecture, code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Participate in code reviews and continuous improvement of development processes.
• Explore how AI-assisted development can accelerate implementation without compromising quality.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Component architecture

Design systems

UI usability

REST APIs

Git & CI/CD

Dutch & English communication

Proactive mindset

SQL basics

Data visualization

Storybook

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Python (Django/DRF)

Azure / Cloud

Storybook

ECharts (Nice-to-have)

Job description

Covolt in Veghel is hiring a Frontend Developer to own the frontend across customer, partner, and internal apps built with React and TypeScript. You will transform UX designs into scalable, performant interfaces and contribute to a shared design system.

You will lead the frontend architecture, advance AI-ready components, and collaborate closely with UX, backend, and data teams to ensure fast, reliable energy platform experiences for customers and partners.