Senior Frontend Developer [f/m/x] (38.5h/week) | SaaS | Remote possible

Swat.io is a Software-as-a-Service product that supports marketers in Social Media Publishing and Community Management. We are proud to be an independent, self-financed, product-led SaaS company focused on building a product that users actually love.

Today, our goal is to keep sustainably growing and become a unique player in the 1% elite circle of SaaS beyond 10 million ARR. We want to create meaningful impact for our clients, team, and company, becoming an integral part of our customers’ daily workflow. Guided by our core values — we add value, we drive progress, we own it, we thrive together —we prioritize quality over quantity. We focus on exceptional talent and a collaborative, supportive culture, believing that revenue follows quality, not the other way around.

At Swat.io, we are a team of 50 product enthusiasts. We rarely hire additional roles to stay lean & agile. We need makers who love to thrive in such an environment.

As a manager of one, you’ll join our 12-person Development Team as a highly-skilled and passionate Senior Frontend Developer. Alongside 4 other Senior Frontend Developers we’re opening up another position - which is rare for our team. You will be responsible for our reusable component library, major new feature implementations, as well as refactoring existing code to live up to our highest standards. This is a frontend development role that also focuses on infrastructural work, such as node server micro service improvements or development setup (think of: webpack, …) improvements.

You enjoy taking on projects on your own - from talking to product owners to raising refactoring ideas to implementing and reviewing all necessary codes. You’re not hiding away from setting the bar higher for everyone - while sharing fun stories, memes and gifs in our frontend weekly.

Who you are not:

This is not a role for a junior or intermediate developer. Everyone in the team has a strong senior background in engineering and can take over projects on their own. We can’t educate you on the job, but we can assign you lots of interesting challenges to tackle.

In this role, you'll be expected to tackle a variety of challenging Javascript projects. You'll be trusted to take full ownership of implementing new features as well as improving the infrastructural components of our tech stack. That will include:

• catch up with product team requirements

• work on even more projects at the same time

• catch up to our 6 backend developers to challenge them even more

We expect you to:

• get up to speed with the tech stack

• suggest additional stack changes

• contribute on all parts of the app without any help from someone else

• take over big projects on your own

• change the status quo

We define ready as

• Experienced and contributed to all various kinds of development projects in the past

• Easily getting up to speed with a big code base written in modern React / TypeScript

• Confidently shipping well-written new user-facing features

• Knowledge of what it takes to write and test maintainable code

• Critical thinking abilities and guts to express own opinions

• Manager of One - > being self-led and not afraid to take initiative and responsibility

• Openness to mistakes and learning from it

Don’t worry if you don't meet all qualifications listed here. If you are a senior frontend developer and this opportunity catches your eyes and you are passionate about the field of work, we are happy to receive your application. If we both think we are a good match, and team fit is as important to us as a technical fit, we will find a solution and grow together.

Product Unit Guiding Principles

Iterate Agilely:

• We prefer small iterations over waterfall.
• We ship often & early.
• We embrace continuous change.

Simplicity Wins:

• Simplicity is in our DNA
• No project is too small, but there is definitely a „too big“.
• We value clear and simple design.
• Simplicity also means no technical debt.

Collaboration First/ one for all, all for one:

• Arguments before ego.
• We are one team that supports each other.
• We are managers of ourselves.

Data-Driven Excellence:

• Data is a strong argument.
• Challenge the status quo.

Positive Team Culture:

• We are good & fun people.
• We assume the best intent.
• We give feedback because we care about each other.

• Our frontend team builds upon a React Single-Page-App, written in TypeScript, connected with our backend through Apollo GraphQL. We use Styled Components, Prettier, Webpack, SWC. 

• In addition, we improve and maintain a handful of Node services handling features like File Upload and Real-time Notifications.

• For our daily work, we use Linear as Issue Tracker, Around as Video Conferencing, and Slack for sharing GIFs/memes/wisdoms and dad jokes.

• We work in two-week Scrum Sprints with our 6 Backend Developers and 2 Product Owners and 2 UX/UI Designers and 1 QA Tester. We try to keep meetings to a minimum (no dailies!), but still find time to share the latest Netflix reviews at our Frontend weekly.

• We don’t have a full-time team lead, we directly report to our CEO Product. He started as an engineer and then led the engineering team for years. While he is still here for some code reviews & vacation requests, the team tries to manage themselves on their own.

• Hybrid work mode: You can comfortably work full-remote and/or from our Vienna office. No RTO, no mandatory office days. Whatever works best for you, as long as you are in the Central European Time zone plus or minus 2 hours. If the time difference of your current location is more than CET ± 2 hours but you plan to relocate, please mention it

• Space for your own ideas and improvements to our product

• Generous annual educational budget for your further development

• We support family leave for all parents and guarantee the same job upon your return also from educational or sabbatical leave

• Top-notch MacBook Pro

• Office workspace with perfect access to public transport (U4, U6) & the Vienna bike network (Vienna, Austria)

• Our team is as international as our audience; English is a must-have and everything else is a bonus

• Permanent contract with an annual gross salary starting from EUR 70.000,- for a 38.5-hour work-week (depending on your individual experience, there is of course a willingness to offer a market-conforming overpayment)

• We hire international talent through remote.com

• Regular team activities and company events where all Swaties from around the world come together & celebrate

• If you work in Austria, we support an annual pass for public transportation (Wiener Linien) or a partial reimbursement for the climate ticket

• The preferred starting date is now, but we are ready to wait for our perfect candidate

More on our benefits: https://swat.io/en/jobs/

We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

• Annoying micro-management

• Office politics

• Lengthy coordination and approval processes

• Monotonous tasks and boring work

• Egos and bullshit before real results

Your contact people are Johannes, our CEO Product and direct manager for this role, and Jane, our People & Culture Manager.

Next steps:

CV screening →  "Get to know us" interview with Johannes →  Team interview → Offer & Open questions → Agreeing on the color & preferred keyboard layout on your Mac → Happy Start with us 

Our job posting got your attention – great! We are looking forward to getting to know you better. Show us who you are – we are interested in your personality and how you fit into our team.

If you have questions about us and our culture, our Team, or our recruiting process, check out our company page: https://swat.io/en/company/ and the FAQ section.

Swat.io started as a bunch of developers 13 years ago. We built the foundation of what we now call “our product”. Over the years, we’ve found like-minded developers with a strong “maker mindset”, with a motivation to thrive together. We’ve found experts who pushed the boundaries further. We scaled the project from 1 customer to a product with over 1000 customers. While we still have the very first employees on the team who can tell you all the nitty-gritty details about our implementations, we’ve also onboarded former CTOs/VPs into our development team along the way. What do we have in common? We’re happy to learn, to help ourselves, and laugh together.