Senior Front-End Software Engineer

Covantis; Polska; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Covantis, a Swiss start-up revolutionizing agricultural trade with digital tools, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Front-End or Full-Stack) to join a dynamic, remote-friendly team across Europe. You will tackle hard engineering problems, shape features, and contribute to multiple products, starting with Covantis Voyages and its complex microservice ecosystem.

You will collaborate with a PM and Designer, drive technical design, write ADRs, and deliver production-ready code with CI/CD,

Qualifications

• Senior-level software engineer with 5+ years of experience.
• 2+ years of frontend experience using React.
• Strong experience with a high-level strongly typed programming language.
• Advocate for testing; familiar with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with PM and Designer to define solutions.
• Develop features across Covantis Voyages with a multi-product scope.
• Build web front-end and contribute to back-end and infra as needed.
• Deliver code to production using CI/CD and best practices.
• Participate in design discussions and write ADRs.

Skills

React

TypeScript

CI/CD

Testing

Observability

AI coding

Tools

Node.js

Nest.js

Postgres

Kafka/MSK

Redis

Terraform

GitLab

Kubernetes

Job description

Covantis, a Swiss start-up founded in 2020 by global Agri trading leaders ADM, Bunge, Cargill, COFCO, LDC, Marubeni, and Viterra, is revolutionizing the agricultural trade industry through digital innovation. As a platform designed by the industry for the industry, Covantis connects market participants globally, streamlining trade execution processes to boost efficiency and mitigate risks. Offering a portfolio of cutting-edge products powered by AI, the platform optimizes document workflows, facilitates electronic documentation, and enhances contract mapping. With over 50 employees across 11 countries, Covantis fosters a growth-oriented, change-driven culture, driving the agricultural supply chain into a new era of digitalization embraced by the industry’s leading players.

Who we are looking for

Covantis is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Front-End or Full-Stack) who loves (and is good at) solving hard yet exciting engineering problems and bringing new products and features to life. If you love being a part of the solution, actively contributing to discoveries, gaining deep understanding of customer needs, analysing intricate details of their business processes and empathising their pains, and ready to shape and implement solutions to those problems, this is a role for you.

What you will do

As a Senior Software Engineer at Covantis, you will work across multiple products in our portfolio (we currently have 5) to develop and improve features that directly address real-life problems in the supply chain operations. Your first assignment will likely be Covantis Voyages – our biggest and the most mature product with complex microservice architecture, well-established incident management and a solid user base of loyal customers from agriculture commodities and shipping and trade industry.

• Work directly with a Product Manager and a Designer to understanding business cases and user needs and shape/design a solution together, consulting the rest of the team and Engineering Manager when necessary. We expect you to not only decide on how to implement things from the technical perspective, but brainstorm with the PM or the Designer helping define what the solution to the problem would even be.
• Collaborate with other developers to deliver complex solutions for automating or digitalising all sorts of processes in supply chain operations.
• Participate in technical design discussions. Produce technical documentation as needed in support of complex technical concepts, write ADRs for topics requiring complex decision making and cross-team alignment.
• Build web-application front-end. We also support and encourage contributions beyond that – to the back end, infra, org-level policies and practices etc.
• Deliver code to production using CI/CD and best DevOps practices.
• Be involved in all phases of software development life cycle: implementing new features or changes to existing features, writing tests, fixing bugs/defects, doing code reviews, deploying to production, responding to incidents etc.
• Occasionally help other teams working on other products if they happen to have a particularly challenging case or a tight deadline.

Node.js, Nest.js, React, Jest/Vitest, MUI on Covantis Voyages, Tailwind on other products, Refine, Storybook, Chromatic, Playwright, Postgres/RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, Kafka/MSK, S3, K8s/EKS and other managed services in AWS, Terraform, GitLab, Elastic

Experience and Required Hard Skills

Required:

• Senior-level, 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in developing front-end for web apps using React.
• Strong experience any high-level strongly typed programming language.
• Familiar with best practices in architecture, performance, security etc.
• Strong advocate for testing, experience with modern testing frameworks and best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps best practices to build, test and ship your code fast.
• Experience with monitoring / observability tools.
• Advanced skills in use of AI coding agents.

Nice to have:

• 2+ years of experience in developing back-end for web apps using a common web framework.
• Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience with IaaC.

Languages

Fluent English is a must

Soft skills we value

• Strong Communication: You can explain complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaboration: You thrive in a team environment, valuing input from others and contributing to shared goals and work closely as a remote team.
• Adaptability: You’re comfortable with change and can pivot quickly when priorities shift.
• Problem-Solving: You approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset, a sense of curiosity and a strong determination to investigate, research, and thoroughly understand the problem initially, followed by validating the solution.
• Empathy: You understand the needs and concerns of teammates and customers, fostering a supportive work environment.

What you will love about us

• We’re truly agile. No fancy methodology cargo cult. We use elements of common agile practices to the extent that they are useful to us, adapting our way of working based on what the team feels is right for the moment.
• Work full-time with flexible hours and remotely in the country you are hired in.
• An entrepreneurial environment with immediate responsibility and a chance to make a difference from the day 1. No-one’s going to give you detailed requirements and prescriptive designs for a feature. You are a part of the solution. You will be working directly with a Product Manager and a Designer (maybe even interacting with customers at times) to understand the business case, customer needs and shape a solution together. If you prefer working with fully detailed requirements in Jira, engineering roles at Covantis might not be the best fit for you.
• Unlimited individual growth opportunities and the ability to create a personalized career path. Many of our team members have successfully transitioned from QA to Software Engineering, from Back-end to Full Stack, and from Engineering to Management. We actively support professional development by matching individuals with the right opportunities and initiatives to expand their knowledge and maximize their impact. Plus, we provide a generous learning and development (L&D) budget to support continuous learning and career advancement.
• An inspiring environment working together with the brightest software engineers in truly international team across Europe. Our hiring philosophy is "We seek out people who would be among the best you've ever worked with". That requirement of course applies to you too, but also guarantees that the team you join is going to be top tier.
• Our company comprises amazing people, a supportive atmosphere and a culture built on mutual support, respect and care for people, that can only happen in a fun and rewarding workplace built by the kind of people Covantis employs.
• Innovative project transforming the supply chain operations for the entire industry, with big name clients and exposure to cutting edge emerging technologies.

Give us your best and we will give you ours!