Front-End Engineer (React React Native) – Store & Web

In a nutshell

At Picnic were revolutionising the way people buy groceries with our affordable and sustainable grocery service. We do almost everything in-house developing cutting-edge technologies and processes to ensure we continue to grow rapidly without missing a beat.

In all our customer-facing products we use React. Our mobile application uses React Native combined with our home-grown server-driven UI framework. We have ambitious plans to unify our mobile and web applications into a single platform. Quality is our top priority so we use TypeScript across the board.

We are looking for driven front-end engineers to help us bring the grocery shopping revolution to millions of this role in addition to working with React daily youll be working with our powerful server-driven UI framework thats at the heart of our businesss success:

• Powers our entire shopping app and enables rapid iterations
• Drives sophisticated personalization at scale delivering tailored content to each user
• Empowers our business teams to operate the store autonomously - dozens of operators and analysts make every day real-time updates without any further tech involvement

In this role you can expect to work with a wide range of technologies within the JavaScript ecosystem across the full stack! Experience with React Native is not required well get you up to speed with that on the job.

Tricks of the trade

• Growth: Work with cross-functional teams across the entire business pick up increasingly challenging tasks and projects and have ownership over your contributions
• Contribution: Work on our customer-facing Picnic store implementing new features on a daily basis and contribute to our React Native architecture and server-driven UI framework
• Collaboration: Collaborate with designers and product owners to create specifications for new features
• Our Tech: React React Native TypeScript and RxJS Redux Styled Components Jest NextJS Storybook

Were looking for

• 4 years of full-time software development and have worked with React React Native Typescript or similar JavaScript frameworks
• Experience in shipping applications
• A willingness and desire to work with a variety of technologies
• Hands-on experience with (unit) testing
• Enthusiasm to work with a variety of technologies and a problem-solving mindset
• The confidence to transform business requirements into a technical plan
• The willingness and flexibility to take feedback and learn from other developers

Picnic Perks

Every expert was once a beginner!

Youll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow including the Picnic Tech Academy Lunch & Learn sessions and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

Make a difference

Youll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean youll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

Teamwork makes the dream work

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries youll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

You are what you eat

Youll get freshly prepared healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian vegan and halal options). Coffee snob Dont worry our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

Stay healthy

Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with from tennis to yoga to climbing!

Attractive package

We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self as well as 25 vacation days per year so you can recharge your batteries

Benefits for expats

It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. Thats why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues if you want to find our relocation benefits see here.