Frontend Engineer (Benelux)

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Netherlands
Experience
Senior · 5+ years

Job description

Front-end developer role at Lateral Group, building digital applications with a focus on craft, design quality and reliability. The position is remote-first, with the option to work from an office.

At a glance

Work mode
Remote · Netherlands

What you'll do

  • Build digital applications as a front-end developer
  • Craft, polish and delight with attention to detail, creating beautiful, intuitive interfaces
  • Ensure quality and reliability: testing, documentation, proactive debugging, performance and browser compatibility
  • Manage your own projects and time as a self-driven 'manager of one'
  • Collaborate closely with others through pair programming, brainstorming with designers and code reviews
  • Work asynchronously and across time zones in a remote environment

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional front-end development experience building digital applications
  • Experience with modern Javascript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack)
  • Fluency in CSS
  • An eye for design and UX, with understanding of design principles, accessibility and responsive layout
  • Diligence about testing and documentation, proactively debugging issues
  • Knowledge of performance and browser compatibility
  • Self-driven and accountable, able to break down complex problems and drive solutions to completion
  • Great communication and empathy
  • Self-motivated and disciplined in a remote environment, able to collaborate asynchronously

Nice to have

  • Demonstrating craft
  • AI & Gen AI experience/tooling
  • Understanding backend concepts
  • CSR/SSR
  • DevOps experience (continuous integration, hosting, etc.)

Benefits

  • Real impact: work on meaningful products from healthcare and commerce to sustainability and next-gen tech
  • Remote-first, office friendly: work from home, a co-working space, or one of the offices
  • Async collaboration, respect for your time zone, focus on outcomes over hours
  • An outstanding team: talented, kind, hard-working people, no egos, no politics
  • Growth: supported in growing your craft, exploring new paths and stepping into greater responsibility
  • A culture of excellence: no burnout, no crunch, high-quality work delivered sustainably
  • Variety & stability: profitable, independent, over a decade strong

How to get hired

  1. 1Your work: show work that reflects you at your best; depth, design thinking and the logic behind your choices are reviewed
  2. 2Lateral team fit: speak with the Talent team about career direction, motivators and plans ahead
  3. 3Work trial: a take-home challenge that mirrors what the company actually does
  4. 4Engineering deep dive: a collaborative session with engineers
  5. 5Project fit: an interview focused on prioritization, collaboration across disciplines and handling the 'messy middle'

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About Lateral Group

A profitable, independent company, over a decade strong, that builds meaningful products from healthcare and commerce to sustainability and next-gen tech. It is remote-first and office friendly, with a culture of excellence, async collaboration and no burnout or crunch.

Key facts

  • Profitable, independent, and over a decade strong
  • Remote-first, office friendly
  • Prioritizes async collaboration and outcomes over hours
  • Has offices that team members can drop into

What they value

  • Kind, open, and constructive
  • Quality and continuous improvement
  • No egos, no politics
  • No burnout, no crunch