Staff Engineer, Web Platforms

Choco is on a mission to enable the global food system to become sustainable by optimizing the way food is sold, ordered, distributed, and financed. Our AI-focused software connects distributors with their customers to operate waste-free and efficiently. A problem of this magnitude requires a massive scale and only the best people will be able to solve it. Are you in?

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About the role

Directly reporting to the Head of Engineering, the Staff Frontend Engineer is pivotal in steering our web engineering strategy. This role is tasked with leading high-impact technical projects spanning across cross-functional product teams, enhancing our microfrontend architecture, and ensuring the development of cutting-edge web products.

As a functional expert, the Staff Frontend Engineer plays both a consultative and hands-on role. But this role is about more than expertise - it's also about mentorship. Our Staff Frontend Engineer aids fellow engineers, fostering an environment where technical skills are continuously sharpened and expanded. From enhancing our application processes to fortifying security measures and optimizing engineering tasks, their contributions resonate throughout the entire tech infrastructure.

In our dynamic technical landscape, the Staff Frontend Engineer stands as a beacon of expertise, always driving forward with precision and professionalism.

Our working model reflects a balance between the highly collaborative nature of our business and modern-day flexibility. As a part of our product team, we look forward to seeing you in our Berlin office 3 days a week,

What you’ll do

• Drive the organization’s engineering strategy for web. Bringing the interests of engineering and the company together.

• Discover, incept and drive strategic technical projects arching over several cross-functional product teams.

• Work with our engineering teams to enhance its microfrontend architecture and platform to develop cutting edge web products

• Act as a functional expert, a go-to person, an impact-multiplier, an enabler and as a troubleshooter when needed.

• Share your knowledge, develop expertise in our product and grow with your team to become an even greater engineer. Mentor other engineers and support them to acquire both wide and deep technical knowledge.

• Touch and improve different areas of our applications through tooling, CI/CD, security, or related engineering processes.

The technology you’ll work with

• We use React, TypeScript, micro frontends architecture, Jest, Styled Components for our web frontend. Our mobile apps are written in Kotlin, Swift, Flutter and we utilize AppSync with GraphQL.

• We have a cutting-edge environment and use NodeJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS DynamoDB and our infrastructure is powered by AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline and AWS S3.

• Our complete stack can be viewed here

What we’re looking for

• 8+ years of professional hands-on experience as a senior, lead engineer or staff engineer in complex development projects.

• Expert in various frontend technologies and modern frontend frameworks, and testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress

• You are fluent in Typescript and keen on trying out new technologies

• Strong experience with complex microservices, event-driven architecture, integrations and developing APIs

• Very deep knowledge in system designs and software architectures

• Previous experience in defining and building up CI/CD pipelines to support development.

• Ability to drive the technical vision of a 50+ engineering organization and drive business critical projects.

• Ability to identify, articulate issues and take ownership for delivering practical solutions, while prioritizing tasks effectively.

• Outstanding communication and influencing skills combined with empathy and eagerness to share and develop others

• Good learning ability, open-mindedness and good self-organizational skills will be absolutely key to the success of your work and the business overall.

• Experience with Microservices, Event-driven architecture, Integrations and Developing APIs

Choco was founded in 2018 in Berlin. Now, we are a dedicated team of over 200 Chocorians across Europe and the US. We seek hungry and humble individuals who embrace hard work, put our team first, and are committed to building a lasting company. Our mission demands urgency and speed while maintaining a long-term vision.

In just five years, Choco has raised $328.5 million and achieved unicorn status in 2022, with a valuation of $1.2 billion. We're supported by some of the world’s best investors like Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Coatue Management, and LeftLane Capital.

Choco is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are committed to ensuring that our technology is available and accessible to everyone. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.