Lead Frontend Developer for Growing Marketplace

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

If you want to be part of a revolution within the film- and photo industry, and you want to be in charge of shaping the best possible platform solution for doing so, we are at this very moment looking for you to join us for the journey.


We are currently experiencing extensive traction, and are therefore looking for a Lead Frontend Developer with passion for both UX and application building, who can take a key role at our growing startup.

Your Role as Lead Frontend Developer

You will take a key role in the operation as:

  • Designing great user experiences for our members 
  • Setting the direction for creating scalable frontend solutions for marketplaces
  • Implementing of the Frontend coding
  • Supporting our CTO in making scalable solutions

Your skills

Skills we value in an applicant:

  • Solid skills in a JS framework. Preferably Vue.js or React. 
  • Experience working with frontend in AWS
  • Experience in setting up the build environment of the frontend code. We are using Codebuild and Codepipeline in AWS and would want it integrated in that flow.
  • Experience with server-side rendering of frontend resources.
  • Experience with Typescript and test driven development in Javascript
  • Obviously skills with HTML and CSS/SCSS or similar.
  • Good communication skills
  • A good sense of UI/UX best practices, and the ability to extrapolate a design based on guidelines rather than a finished design.
  • Basic knowledge of common SEO best practices

Softer traits

As we are a startup, it's important that the candidate thinks along the following lines:

  • Thrive in an environment where flexibility and adaptability is of the utmost importance
  • Love being a part of a tightly knit team with a flat hierarchy
  • Passion about the startup culture and independent 
  • Dream about creating scalable marketplaces for millions of users 

Our current platform is built on the open source platform of Sharetribe (Ruby / RoR), and we are currently working towards a more scalable solution using serverless architecture in AWS. 

About Wedio

Wedio is the biggest Danish sharing community for photo and video professionals. Wedio gives creatives the opportunity to access their desired gear and the financial flexibility in order to focus on their craft. Wedio provides creatives with the essentials in order to share gear safe and smoothly. This implies excellent insurance conditions, thorough user verification, a rating system, an easy suited communication system, a user-friendly platform, and a transparent environment.

We make renting easy. By promoting the listed gear and handling the formalities we encourage conveniency towards the owners. By gathering the supply of local gear in one marketplace, creatives are able to make quick and informed decisions when renting. At the same time, Wedio provides creatives with the opportunity to expand their network, and to interact with and help other like-minded artists.

Our mission is to create a more visual world. We achieve this by offering the tools and services that benefit creatives so that they can focus on their craft. We believe that visual content plays a crucial role in the future of communication, and thereby we have a vision of becoming the preferred global community for creatives.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you want to hear more!

 

Best regards

Kasper, Daniel and Morten 

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
Wedio

Experience flexibility by renting your film gear daily, weekly or monthly. Wedio is the fastest-growing European camera-sharing community for Filmmakers and Photographers — the Airbnb of professional film gear. We make it 40% cheaper, faster and safe to rent and rent out high-end film equipment between owners and renters in the film industry. In other words, Wedio is making the film industry much more flexible for creators. Today we have more than 2,800 members across The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom & Denmark. About to launch world’s first pro camera subscription Subscribe to the newest gear for a small monthly fee, and rent out your equipment, when you are not using it yourself. If you rent out your camera 2-4 times per month, the subscription will be covered. Our mission is to keep great stories alive. We achieve this by offering the tools and services that benefit you as a creator in order for you to focus on your craft. We believe that visual content plays a crucial role in the future of communication, and thereby we have a vision of becoming the preferred global community for creators.

Read more about Wedio

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