The Role
The Frontend Web Developer will work on feature development, monetization optimizations, and SEO improvements while collaborating with cross-functional teams on multiple projects.
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Who we are
JustWatch delivers data-driven digital marketing for the global entertainment business, from the biggest blockbusters to award-winning shows and major sporting events. We are entertainment-obsessed ourselves, fueling the world's largest streaming guide, which in turn gives us unparalleled insights into audience behaviours and content tastes.
The Front-end engineering team is responsible for developing JustWatch.com, which receives over 60 million visits a month, and the iOS & Android applications, with over 4 million installs. Together, these help users discover, start, and manage their streaming journeys.
You’ll be joining the web development team, which focuses on rapid, experiment-driven feature development, monetisation optimisations, and deep tracking integration, which informs business-wide decisions.
Who we need
As a Mid-level Front-end Developer, you’ll be joining a team of high-octane and passionate devs who get to work on projects from start to finish with full autonomy and ownership. We trust the skills, opinions, and insights that you bring to your work and interactions with other teams across the company.
You’ll work on projects like developing new application features around content discovery, optimising different monetisation strategies of the site, as well as improving the SEO and Application performance metrics of the site.
To succeed at JustWatch, you’ll need to be able to manage multiple projects at once, rotating over them as priorities update depending on external clients, SEO changes, and user signals.
We strongly encourage regular and open communication to create a pull rather than push project management approach, whether you’re in the office or remote.
What you will bring
This is an overall list of tech and skills that you may find yourself leaning on. Hitting each and everyone of them isn’t critical; if you feel confident in any of these, do apply! Whatever’s missing will become a source of learning with all of us.
What we work with
- Vue 3 (+ Vue Router, Pinia)
- Typescript
- GraphQL
- Vite
- Snowplow
- Sentry
What we need from you
- Have a side project/startup (in-development or live) and/or entrepreneurial spirit.
- Experience with a modern SSR JS framework, TypeScript, Webpack & Vite, performance monitoring, and improvements.
- Ability to work in a cross-functional team, closely collaborating with other Frontend Developers, Backend Developers & Product Managers.
- Project management (working on multiple projects at once, keeping stakeholders up to date)
- Rapid development (deployments, testing, monitoring)
- Constant learning, delivering results, and creating value are the core characteristics of everyone at JustWatch, and we are looking for these values in every person we hire.
- Core understanding of SEO
- Comfortable working with Git
- Excellent written and spoken communication in English
What you will work on
- Implementing video streaming technologies on JustWatch
- Redesign of the JustWatch home page, the first point of contact for millions of visits
- You can give feedback early on in the design phases
- Implement multiple design variants in the experiment framework
- Eventually, make a data-driven decision on the winning variant and integrate it fully
- Based on revenue and application tracking, optimise the selection and distribution of streaming offers
- Through a dynamic, global optimisation system we’ve built and continue to improve
- And way more, the type of projects we take on is super varied, ask us about it in the interview!
What we offer you
- An open-minded and international team that loves to collaborate to reach our goals.
- Day one impact, your thoughts, opinions, and work you do directly impact millions of people across the entire globe. It’s an opportunity to work at a global scale, along with the unique challenges and problem-solving this brings.
- We believe in a permissionless environment that lets us focus on delivering value without overcomplicating things.
- We prioritise meaningful work over perks, and that true fulfilment comes from intrinsic motivation, personal growth, and making a lasting impact.
- We trust you to maintain a no-nonsense attitude and support creating an environment that promotes innovation.
- We are committed to helping you achieve your personal and professional goals, and we offer a collaborative and supportive environment to do so.
- Truly a hybrid work environment. You are not required to come to the office, but you will want to.
Media is important to us, and we are always happy to hear from people who enjoy film! If you feel like you are missing some of the hard skills, don’t worry, we are hiring for the attitude, values, and personality.
If we caught your attention and you're eager to delve into our perspectives and thought processes, we recommend immersing yourself in our blog post, which elaborates on these subjects:
- A company culture that really works
- Audience as a Service
- Or visit our blog here: https://www.justwatch.com/blog
How to apply
Just hit the apply button at the bottom of this page, and leave us your CV, info, and a short intro that gives us an idea of what motivates you, why you want to work at JustWatch, and how you think you will help us achieve our goals.
💡 If you were paying attention, get ahead of all applicants by listing two things you took away from the links above.
Please only apply if you are interested. Copy&paste mass applications will receive a copy&paste rejection email. If you have any questions, please reach out to our talent team via LinkedIn or apply to this role directly through our jobs page.
Research shows women apply when meeting 100% qualifications, men at 60%. JustWatch welcomes all candidates, especially women and marginalized groups. Apply, let's talk, and explore if you're a great fit.
Top Skills
GraphQL
Sentry
Snowplow
Typescript
Vite
Vue 3
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The Company
What We Do
We are JustWatch. The only media company built for modern-day entertainment.
JustWatch Media helps entertainment brands around the world get to grips with new challenges and opportunities. From blockbuster movies, award winning shows, major sporting events and console games, we buy media for our clients across the major digital platforms.
Our media buying capabilities are powered by JustWatch The Streaming Guide. Live and localized in over 130 markets, it is the biggest streaming guide in the world, billions of data points from over 200,000 movies & shows and tens of millions of users, which means we understand audiences and content better.
We have offices in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Rome, London and New York and we’d love to hear from you.
Our mission is to connect entertainment fans with their favorite content worldwide.
