(Senior) Frontend Engineer

Polarsteps; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 68,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary 68k-80k EUR (medior)

Equity in Polarsteps SAR plan

Annual travel for a location

MacBook Pro provided

Hybrid working

Home office setup

30 days vacation

Culture days

Optional travel for background work

Development budget

Pension plan

Office lunches and team events

Office in downtown Amsterdam

Polarsteps Travel Books

Job summary

Polarsteps, an Amsterdam-based team, is seeking a Frontend Engineer to join a small, highly collaborative web team. You will work on the front of our travel app, delivering features that impact millions of users with a strong emphasis on performance, polish, and user experience.

The role combines hands-on development with prototyping and internal tooling, in a hybrid Amsterdam office setting. You’ll contribute from day one, participating in agile ceremonies, collaborating with designers and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend development experience.
• Proficient with React and TypeScript.
• Strong focus on performance and UX.
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling for faster delivery.
• Collaborative in Agile teams and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop features for Polarsteps' web app used by millions.
• Create prototypes and share knowledge with Product team.
• Build internal tools to improve workflows and efficiency.
• Collaborate daily with PMs, designers, and engineers.
• Improve resiliency, maintainability, and scalability of the platform.

Skills

Frontend development

React

Typescript

Performance optimization

Automated testing

AI tools usage

Team collaboration

Agile

Tools

React

Typescript

Playwright

Python

Node.js

TanStack

Job description

Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place.

We're an Amsterdam-based team of 90+ (and counting) with 25+ nationalities amongst us! A varied bunch of “Citizens of The World” with a wide range of skills and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our travel belts. And we have something important in common (other than our very well-worn passports): We want to change the way people travel.

And that's exactly what we're doing, with the travel app to plan, track, and relive trips in a smart and beautiful way.

Polarsteps has over 20 million users already, but, for us, this is just the beginning. We have big plans for the future, and so we need even more talented and enthusiastic people to help us on our journey.

Want to know more about us? Here you go.

Your expedition: Frontend Engineering at Polarsteps

We’re a small team, doing big things.

If you haven't seen our app yet, go ahead and check it out; you'll see that we care (a lot) about providing a seamless, top-quality user experience for every one of our travelers. And it is this that has got us ratings of 4.8 and 4.7 on the app stores (where we’ve been featured multiple times). But it doesn’t stop there: not only did Google create this awesome video about us, but we’ve been mentioned in two of Apple’s WWDC keynote speeches!

We’ve got an impressive past, but we’re even more excited for the future, and the impact you can make from day one is huge, with everything you ship affecting more than 23 million users. Even with that in mind, we believe in truly giving our team members the freedom they need to craft to perfection while encouraging a practical mindset to avoid under- or over-engineering mishaps.

We are seeing enthusiastic and accelerated growth of the travel industry, and with that comes both opportunities and growing pains. So, if you enjoy creating thoughtful user experiences, obsessing over performance and polish, and solving the challenges that come with building a product used by millions, you're in for a lot of fun with us.

Your itinerary

What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day.

You will:

• Work on all things at the forefront of our beautiful and complex web app, and create new features that will impact millions of users.

• Help our Product team by creating prototypes and sharing your knowledge.

• Build fun internal tools like our teleporter.

• Take part in daily interactions with product managers, designers, other engineers, and the rest of our team, we believe in a deeply collaborative environment.

• Proactively improve the resiliency, maintainability, and scalability of our platform, addressing technical debt when needed or, even better, preventing it when it makes sense.

The equipment in your backpack

What we’re hoping you’ll bring with you.

5-7+ years of a strong frontend background. We work with React and Typescript and would love it if you are familiar with them, or a similar technology.

A pragmatic approach to solving the problem at hand. You shouldn’t be scared of tackling big challenges in automated testing, optimizing performance or developing new features.

You use AI tools daily to move faster, but never to skip understanding. You can explain, defend and debug every line you ship, whether you wrote it or an AI did.

A history of working on intuitive and beautiful front-end solutions

Experience working in an Agile team environment.

A keen eye on User Experience

Bonus points for Tanstack, Playwright, Python, Node.js

1st class extras

Some cool things to make the journey extra sweet.

• Salary range: Between EUR 68.000 - 80.000 (medior level) and EUR 84.000 and 99.000 gross per year + 8% holiday allowance (based on 40 hours/week). Where you land in the range depends on your experience and skills, to be evaluated during the interview process.

• Equity: You'll be able to participate in our Polarsteps SAR Plan.

• A yearly free flight or train to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin here.

• A shiny new MacBook to work your magic on.

• Hybrid working. Split your time between the office and your home, as you see fit.

• An extensive home office set-up, everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk.

• 30 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you).

• Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you, but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.

• The option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.

• A personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!

• A pension plan to help you save for those around-the-world retirement trips.

• Delicious daily office lunches.

• Awesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.

• A lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.

• Free Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far-flung adventures.

At Polarsteps, we believe the best products are built by people as diverse as the travelers using our apps! That's why we specifically encourage people underrepresented in the tech industry to apply for a role with us. Because we believe that diversity, be it age, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, or gender identity, makes both the world and the workplace better.

Think this is the path for you? Find out more about how we hire.