Senior Fullstack Engineer - React, Node.js (All Genders)

Company Description

With over 25 years’ experience, plus the same enormous passion and ambition we had on day-one, we’re trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry. Our solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier – and that’s something we really care about. We work together to continually adapt; embracing change and the challenges it brings so that we can keep doing better. Join us and discover a place where your potential meets your passion for pets. That’s the power of plus.

Job Description

Join our Frontend Platform Team and help shape the foundations that power customer-facing experiences across zooplus. The team owns the shared frontend architecture, developer tooling, and platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to build and ship features faster, more reliably, and with a consistent user experience.

You’ll work closely with engineers, architects, and product teams across the organisation to improve developer experience, evolve platform architecture, and support scalable frontend development used by millions of customers across Europe.

This role offers a high level of ownership, technical influence, and the opportunity to work on platform challenges at scale.

What You’ll Do

Design and evolve shared frontend platform capabilities, SDKs, and application architecture

Improve developer workflows, tooling, and engineering standards across teams

Contribute to scalable frontend systems, rendering solutions, and platform performance

Collaborate with engineers and architects to support product delivery and technical direction

Help improve testing, automation, observability, and release processes

Share knowledge through collaboration, code reviews, and mentoring

How We Work

Collaborative engineering culture with high ownership

Platform mindset focused on enabling other teams

Pair programming, design discussions, and cross-team collaboration

Continuous improvement in developer experience and engineering practices

Distributed international team working fully in English

Tech Stack: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Jest, Playwright, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Qualifications

What You Bring

Experience building modern web applications and frontend platforms

Good knowledge of React, TypeScript, and Node.js ecosystems

Familiarity with CI/CD, cloud environments, and distributed systems

Interest in scalable architecture, performance, and developer experience

Experience working collaboratively across teams and driving engineering best practices

Comfortable working in modern development environments with testing and automation

Good communication skills in English

Nice to Have

Experience with mono-repositories, internal platforms, or design systems

Exposure to e-commerce or high-traffic environments

Knowledge of server-side rendering, edge rendering, or caching strategies

Familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling

Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT

Participation in open-source or inner-source initiatives

Don’t meet every requirement? We’d still love to hear from you. We value engineering mindset, collaboration, and potential as much as direct experience.

Additional Information

Headquartered in Munich, with offices across Madrid, Krakow, Wroclaw, London and Vienna, we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so you’ll be at the heart of an incredible, multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done, which means you’ll benefit from hybrid working, spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. There’s an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products, and you’ll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.

At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.

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