Senior Frontend Engineer | Join our Talent Community

Company Description

We Dream. We Do. We Deliver.

About Merkle

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty.

Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com.

Our team is expanding and we are looking for Senior Frontend Engineers to join our Talent Community.

Please apply to this ad if you would like to be considered for our Frontend Engineer Talent Community, and to be kept in the loop on future job openings in our team.

We have hybrid offices in Zurich, St. Gallen, Geneva and Lausanne.

Job Description

• Developing new user-facing features using React / Angular / Vue.js or using Vanilla JS
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimization of components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Design front-end architectures for component library integration with multiple platforms

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• At least 4 years of Information Technology experience
• Experience with HTML5 and CSS3, SCSS, SASS
• Experience with one of the JS libraries or frameworks
• Knowledge and experience with full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies
• Optimisations on a current component library (APIs, component Library, …)
• Implementation and development around motion, a11y, design tokens, theming and more
• Hands-on when needed on bug fixes, backlog, support tickets
• With a good sense of User Experience and Design as a whole
• With the ability to establish good communication flows between stakeholders, designers and developers in the team.
• Overall Frontend Architecture Evaluation and Scalability
• Fluency in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React / Angular/ Vue.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React / Angular/ Vue.js workflows (such as Redux / NgRx / Vuex)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern frontend build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common frontend development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Ability to work in diverse teams
• Always with a mindset for benchmarking and optimisation
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (GIT based)
• Experience with Design Systems implementation most valued
• Very good German or French is a plus

Additional Information

We work with motivated people, who support and enrich each other. We live the possibilities of the digital world through home office, meaning you can work anywhere (within Switzerland) with flexible (annual) working hours. We also value face-to-face exchanges - coffee or tea, biscuits or fruit are all welcomed on board and shared throughout our offices.

If you ever feel the need to take a break from the digital world, we love to get hands-on together and use pens, paper, and whiteboards for brainstorming sessions. Need to clear your head? Hit the foosball table, PlayStation, massage bench or yoga mat. For networking and (brain) food, we offer regular exchange formats, like meetings, tech labs and more. Not enough? We are full believers in education and support training, whether it be internally or externally. We support you.

These are some of the things we offer:

• 40-hour week & overtime compensation
• Independent home office management
• Flexible working hours model (flextime)
• Additional days-off on top of holidays (wellness days, volunteer days)
• State-of-the-art, creative office space with ergonomically equipped workstations
• Wide range of further education and development opportunities through our in-house Academy
• Various discounts e.g. for lunch options

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/worldview, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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