Introduction
Vanderlande provides baggage handling systems for 600 airports around the globe, capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. For the parcel market our systems handle 52 million parcels per day. All these systems generate data. Do you see a challenge in building data-driven services for our customers using that data? Do you want to contribute to the fast-growing Vanderlande Technology Department on its journey to become more data driven? If so, then join our Digital Service Factory team!
Your Position
As Lead Front-End Engineer, you will play a critical dual role:
Technical Expert
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Own the front-end architecture of the MyVanderlande customer portal, a responsive web app that integrates microfrontends and data from other digital services, ERP and CMS.
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Drive the implementation of best-in-class web engineering practices, performance, and scalability.
Technical competence leader
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Set the technical direction for front-end across multiple teams and products for a team of 5 professionals.
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Act as the go-to expert for front-end strategy, architecture, and maintainability.
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Guide and mentor front-end engineers across the platform.
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Lead the Front-End Guild: aligning standards, promoting reusability, and driving technical consistency.
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Partner with architects, product owners, designers, and engineering leads to influence product direction and ensure cohesive solutions.
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Be a champion for user experience, modern tooling, and maintainable design systems.
This is not just a development role — this is a leadership position with broad influence across the Digital Service Platform. You’ll have a seat at the table, and your voice will shape the future of customer-facing software at Vanderlande.
Responsibilities
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Build and develop our responsive web application that works well on a variety of screen resolutions and browsers.
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NPI- Tools and Develop new features for our products and services which provide our customers with actionable information through multiple channels.
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Participate in end-to-end development through prototyping, validation, implementation, launch, and further iterations.
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Actively contribute to continuous integration efforts and improvements in our way of working.
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Collaborate with UX designers to develop appealing and intuitive interfaces based on graphic designs or mock-ups.
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Write high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.
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Ensure code and design quality through code reviews and testing.
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Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and proper integration of front-end features.
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Stay up to date with new front-end technologies, techniques, and best practices.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar.
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Proven experience as a Lead Front-End Engineer (leading a team of min. 5 members) in Agile environments – working in or closely with Scrum or Kanban teams.
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Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills – able to align technical direction across teams, and explain decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Excellent change management and project management skills regarding new tool- or technology introductions or experience with NPI is a plus
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You have recent experience with Angular 15+, Typescript, RxJS, NgRx/Redux, Web Performance, Web Workers, HTML5 (+ markdown), CSS/SCSS.
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Cloud experience with one or more major cloud providers – Azure preferable.
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Strong understanding of declarative- , reactive- , object-oriented programming, web standards, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility.
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You have experience with developer tooling: Git (bitbucket), WSL, container technologies (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes.
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You have experience with and/or skills in UX design/development.
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You have experience using and contributing to a design system.
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You know how to develop secure front-end applications and are familiar with OAuth2.
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A track record of mentoring developers and elevating team capability.
Nice to have skills:
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GraphQl
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CMS (Contentful)
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Cypress / Playwright
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DevOps tooling for test automation and CI/CD.
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Understanding of back-end development in Java.
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Understand how to translate front end needs to back-end requirements and vice versa.
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Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
What we offer
In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.
This position offers a competitive salary range of € 6000 to € 7350 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.
On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:
- 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
- Flexible working hours.
- A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
- A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
- Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
- Working from home allowance.
- Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
- On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
- Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
- A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
- And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.
Your application
Kindly apply directly on our workday vacancy link with your resume and motivation letter!
PS: Due to process compliance, we cannot process email applications. Kindly use the correct vacancy link to apply for this vacancy.
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status