Smallpdf
Senior Frontend Engineer
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Zürich
Employer listed it 12 days ago · Found 7h ago
First listed 12 days ago and still open.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Zürich
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Zürich, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Zürich, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
Who Are We
Founded in 2013, Smallpdf has been simplifying PDF management for millions globally. We've combined Swiss engineering with a deep understanding of our user's needs, leading us to join forces with Pdftools in 2022. Today, our diverse team of over 100 professionals from 34 nationalities operates across Zurich, Belgrade, and Barcelona. We're committed to making PDF and life just a bit easier for over a billion users in 24 languages.
About the role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer , and a product engineer at heart, you’ll help shape user experiences for millions of people, with real ownership from idea to production. You’ll be an active voice in product and design discussions, contributing not just how we build things, but what we build and why.
We’re not looking for someone who just picks up tickets and writes code - we really want someone who is keen to learn and work in a cross functional environment. You’ll help turn ideas into quick MVPs, run A/B tests or other validation techniques, and use what you learn to guide future decisions. We value pragmatic trade-offs and fast feedback over perfection.
Beyond your product team, you’ll contribute to our Frontend Guild , helping evolve shared standards and practices that keep our frontend codebase healthy, scalable and able to support our future product and experimentation endeavours. Previous experience working on SaaS products with a global audience is highly appreciated, but not a hard requirement.
What you will do
Play a major part in delivering complex product features, experiments, or systems, from discovery and planning all the way to rollout and analysis
Build fast, reliable, and user-friendly interfaces using modern frontend technologies
Create experiments and prototypes to quickly validate assumptions and guide product decisions
Look at problems deeply, identify patterns, and propose solutions that are both scalable and maintainable
Work closely with Product, Design, and Data to align on goals and deliver meaningful outcomes, even in ambiguous problem spaces
Influence product direction through technical insight and user empathy
Contribute to how we work as a team, including our engineering standards, rituals, and processes
Support teammates, share knowledge, and help maintain a collaborative, open, and inclusive culture
Communicate clearly and thoughtfully, explaining decisions, trade-offs, and risks in an approachable way
About you
Strong experience building modern web applications at scale
Deep knowledge of React and TypeScript, combined with a pragmatic approach to architecture
Able to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and move work forward with confidence
Comfortable making decisions based on context and data
You actively question whether we are solving the right problem, propose alternatives, and help the team course-correct early
Passionate about product and motivated by solving real user problems
Keen to work closely with Product, Design, and Data to help shape what we build
Requirements
- ·Strong experience building modern web applications at scale
- ·Deep knowledge of React and TypeScript, combined with a pragmatic approach to architecture
- ·Able to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and move work forward with confidence
- ·Comfortable making decisions based on context and data
- ·You actively question whether we are solving the right problem, propose alternatives, and help the team course-correct early
Benefits
- ·🌍 You get to impact how over 30 million people get work done monthly.
- ·🚀 Push boundaries and dare to fail - that’s how we learn!
- ·🏝️ 30 vacation days - yep, you read that right - you can take them whenever you need them.
- ·🕘 Flexibility: we have flexible working hours.
- ·🧳 Need a long break? We offer sabbatical leave to employees who’ve been with us for over two years.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Smallpdf, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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