21 Oct
Jimdo
Great Britain
Job description
Jimdo was founded by 3 school friends in 2007 in a farmhouse in Northern Germany. Today, we’re a growing profitable business with a team of 250+ people from 50 nationalities based in over 15 countries.
Jimdo’s mission is to unleash the power of self-employed small business owners, the backbone of the global economy, and help them thrive.
We offer products and services to help founders start, grow, and manage their businesses.
Jimdo started as a website builder and has helped businesses create over 32 million websites. Over the years, our portfolio evolved to specifically serve the unique needs of micro businesses.
In addition to our GDPR-compliant website builder powered by AI, we offer an online store, logo creator,
legal text generator, business listings, social media integration, SEO, and more.
We are constantly developing new products and services that make the lives of micro business owners easier and help fuel their businesses.
We have a physical location in Hamburg, Germany, where teams come together for in-person collaboration. If you’re inspired by our mission and like the idea of working for a dynamic remote-first company where you can create impact from day 1, we’d love to meet you!
Your mission :
As a Staff Frontend Engineer at Jimdo, you will be expected to do more than just coding. We're looking for a leader who can create roadmaps for our frontend frameworks across the entire company.
You will have a substantial impact on shaping our software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, ensuring we deliver high-performance, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
We champion the idea that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and firmly believe in creating accessible websites and apps.
We favor lean and streamlined technologies over bloated ones, and we aim to attract professionals who share these values.
If you have a passion for lightweight JavaScript libraries or applications delivered directly at the edge and enjoy the challenge of leading a team to create highly performant, accessible, user-friendly web applications, we'd love to hear from you.
What you’ll be doing :
- Innovate, lead, and contribute to the frontend engineering direction of both our hosted and on-premise offerings.
- Collaborate closely with the Jimdo Product, Operations, and Engineering teams to shape the tasks we work on.
- Design and implement highly performant, accessible web applications using lean JavaScript libraries.
- Create roadmaps for our frontend frameworks, promoting a lean and efficient approach.
- Mentor, support, and challenge your team members to foster growth and collaboration.
What you bring :
- Extensive experience in web application development, with a focus on JavaScript.
- Strong knowledge of essential HTTP and foundational JavaScript principles.
- An inclination towards using simple, lean technologies.
- Familiarity with technologies such as Cloudflare Workers or CDN with computing at the edge is a strong plus.
- Demonstrated leadership experience, preferably in leading technical teams.
- An understanding of accessibility standards and a commitment to building inclusive, accessible digital products.
- Ability to work with a global team in a distributed work environment.
- A passion for JavaScript and web development in general
What we offer :
Meaningful mission :
By helping solopreneurs and small businesses succeed we’re making communities around us more sustainable, resilient, and vibrant.
Flexibility and Trust :
Fully remote work with elements of in-person collaboration.
Flexible working hours. We value outcomes over presenteeism.
Option to work outside of your country of employment for up to 90 days in a year.
Side hustles encouraged.
Diverse international team :
We’re 250+ people representing 50+ nationalities and based in 15+ locations.
Employee-led DEI Council, active ERGs.
Growth and Career Development :
Culture of knowledge sharing supported by our learning experience platform (LXP) HowNow.
Opportunity to share ideas and create impact from Day 1.
Flat hierarchies and short decision-making process.
Competitive benefits, including :
Compensation reviewed at least once a year.
Remote Office Set Up bonus.
Workation Policy.
Employee Assistance Program (resources, counseling).
Up to three free Jimdo websites that you get to keep forever!
Jimdo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means that we don’t discriminate based on race or ethnic origin, color, the language(s) you speak, where you (or your parents) are from, or whether or not you consider yourself to have a disability.
Neither will your age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, or political opinions play a part in your application with us.
We’re a diverse team in so many ways, and we love it that way.
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▶️ Front-End Staff Engineer Technology · Fully Remote
🖊️ Jimdo
📍 Great Britain