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 DescriptionJoin 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
QualificationsWhat 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 InformationHeadquartered 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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Skills Required
- 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
- Good communication skills in English
What We Do
We are zooplus. With over 25 years of exclusive focus on online retail in pet supplies, we are a trailblazer in the industry. Every day, we go the extra mile to meet the unique needs of pets, delivering exceptional value to our customers with an ever-expanding range of nutritional and lifestyle products, proprietary premium food and accessory brands, expert advice, convenient services, and loyalty programs. Our commitment to innovation drives us as a team to lead the industry and set new standards for personalized, convenient shopping, consistently exceeding our customers' expectations. This dedication has made us the number one choice for over 12 million customers in 30 countries across Europe. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, zooplus employs over 1,200 people across Europe.
