About Polarsteps
Looking for a new adventure? We're an Amsterdam-based team of 90+ (and counting) with 25+ nationalities amongst us. 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.
Your expedition: Frontend Engineering at Polarsteps
We're a small team, doing big things. We care a lot about providing a seamless, top-quality user experience for every one of our travelers — this has got us ratings of 4.8 and 4.7 on the app stores, where we've been featured multiple times. We've also been mentioned in two of Apple's WWDC keynote speeches, and Google created a video about us. The impact you can make from day one is huge, with everything you ship affecting more than 23 million users. We believe in giving our team members the freedom they need to craft to perfection while encouraging a practical mindset to avoid under- or over-engineering mishaps.
Your itinerary (day-to-day)
•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)
•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
1st class extras
•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: participate in our Polarsteps SAR Plan
•A yearly free flight or train to a random location (via our Teleporter)
•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
•Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you, but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar
•The option to work from another country for up to 8 weeks a year
•A personal development budget
•A pension plan
•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
