Frontend Developer for Adblock / Adblock Plus

Get to know us

At eyeo, we transform the internet into a trusted, sustainable and accessible place where users regain control over their experience, content creators and publishers are rewarded for their content, and advertisers and consumers can connect on mutually agreed terms.

eyeo’s market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for popular browsers. Our solutions empower users to control their online experience and privacy while providing monetization for content creators, publishers and advertisers.

Combining our partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 350 million monthly active users worldwide.

eyeo is a global employer of over 300 people working remotely in more than 30 countries (predominantly North America and Europe) with our HQ in Berlin and small offices in Cologne, Toronto and NYC (planned soon).

How we work

eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and take great pride in our company culture. We practice an independent, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional matrix teams that span predominantly EST and CET time zones. If working remotely isn’t for you, we also have a large office in Berlin and soon in NYC that you can choose to work from. We meet twice a year as a team and host an annual-company retreat, our Summer Week. By enabling remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a culture that provides a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging.

What you'll do

As a Frontend Developer, you will help maintain and evolve our product websites, including our flagship extension product websites getadblock.com and adblockplus.org. You'll be responsible for building and optimizing scalable, secure, and high-performing websites and web applications that deliver exceptional user experiences. 

This includes creating custom WordPress themes, plugins, and integrations and ensuring the websites remain up-to-date with the latest web standards and best practices. You'll also troubleshoot and resolve issues, implement new features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align the websites with business and user needs. Through your expertise, you'll play a key role in ensuring our web presence reflects our commitment to quality and innovation.

Your day-to-day activities: 

• Help launch, further develop, and maintain static websites, web applications, and frontend components, using cloud services and headless WordPress
• Monitor and adapt to changes in web standards, browser updates, and best practices to scale efficiently, maintain compatibility, and optimize performance
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, implement features, and troubleshoot issues
• Foster team collaboration by contributing to code reviews, mentoring colleagues, and sharing knowledge of best practices

What you bring to the table

• 5+ years of real-world experience working as a Fullstack Web Developer or a similar role
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with hands-on experience in building responsive and accessible web applications
• Experience with WordPress theme development, plugin development, internationalization, and Gutenberg block development 
• Comfort with modern web development workflows and tools, including continuous integration (GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI), Git, unit testing (Playwright), and Docker
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and optimize code
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in both synchronous and asynchronous team environments
• Experience with PHP, Python, Static Website Builders, NodeJS, Express, Cloud/Edge Functions, Google Cloud Services, Cloudflare services, WPML, BigQuery SQL, image and video optimization and TypeScript are nice to have

What we offer

• Work remotely or from one of our offices —we trust you to find what works best for you 
• Full package of benefits (health insurance, choice of hardware, paid vacation days, professional development and relocation budget, sabbatical leave, etc.)
• Offsite team days and the annual summer company retreat* Some benefits vary subject to the hiring location

Helpful links

• Monetization: https://eyeo.com/blog/acceptable-ads-evolution-feature-ecosystem
• eyeo in the news: https://eyeo.com/press/
• Blog updates: https://eyeo.com/blog/
• Life at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/careers/working-at-eyeo
• The team at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/team
• Open Source repository: https://github.com/adblockplus, https://gitlab.com/eyeo

Privacy Notice

eyeo is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief. When you apply, you’ll be automatically forwarded to our recruitment platform operated by an external service provider called Greenhouse (seated in the US). Greenhouse collects some information on its website, such as anonymous usage statistics, by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technology. For more information, please refer to Greenhouse’s Privacy Policy. All documents and information provided by you are stored with Greenhouse. In order to ensure an adequate level of data protection, eyeo and Greenhouse have entered into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“processors”) - Commission Decision C(2010)593. You can request a copy of this by contacting us at privacy[at]eyeo.com. If you don’t want your data forwarded to Greenhouse, please do not apply. For detailed and further information, please refer to our Privacy Policy at https://eyeo.com/en/privacy.