About Staizen

At Staizen, we live and breathe transformation. We support and guide our clients through the toughest and nitty-gritty parts of building, modernizing, and running digital products and platforms. Transformation is not easy and to be the best partners, we challenge ourselves to constantly practice what we preach in the way we do, build and lead.

The name Staizen is short for “State of Kaizen”, inspired by the Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement. We are all about getting 1% better every day because sustainable transformation is not about the big bang but manifests in the daily choices that we commit to do every single day.

What we offer

• Get the chance to work on transformation at scale missions for complex industries such as banking, e-commerce, insurance
• Be part of exciting communities where you can collaborate, grow and learn across the board
• We are remote-first  with global operations across Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Philippines, Singapore, and Cyprus, with optional co-working spaces for the team

Perks & Benefits

• 1% better yearly budget - your personal growth & learning fund
• Co-working spaces - for the times when you want to spice up and change environments
• Remote set-up budget - to get you up and running wherever you decide to work
• Team-up budget - Monthly lunch/dinner budget for physical or virtual team bonding
• Good medical coverage - so you don’t have to worry about your health
• Flexitime - We follow the standard business hours, but we trust you to find your most productive time

Responsibilities 

• Leading topics related to implementation in the new platform frontend for ecommerce
• Providing technical consultation on frontend related topics
• Taking part in code review to help improve team’s knowledge and to suggest improvements
• Acting as a mentor and guide on technical issues for junior developers
• Investigating latest technology and build quick Proof of Concept functionalities to address future business needs
• Promoting in the best-in-class development principles and quality standards – i.e. Clean Code, BDD/TDD
• Contributing in in the Development Community of Practice to agree and endorse the development principles andfor the company development teams best practices
• Helping the organization structure complex engineering issues: technology, Improvement / Continuous Delivery

Requirement

• 5+ years proven track record in this role preferably in an international and multicultural environment working in classing and virtual teams
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP) for software development and DevOps
• Results oriented: Proven track-record of delivering on targets
• Strong fundamentals in software design and development
• Professional experience in JavaScript development-including proven track record for NextJS, React and Typescript
• Experience with Redis
• Experience with performance optimizations
• Experience in writing unit tests (e.g. Jest and other testing utilities)
• Solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts
• Knowledge of CSS pre-processors and frameworks (preferably SCSS)
• Knowledge of architecture design patterns and software craftsmanship principles (Clean Code, Clean coder, Clean architecture)
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery using continuous delivery tooling such as Jenkins/AzureDevOps and practical experience with Docker containerisation
• Understanding of performance, requirements cross- browser / cross-device development, testing, optimisation, and frontend performance
• Fluency in English — verbal and written
• Knowledge of UX and design sensibilities, wireframe tools like Abstract, Figma, tracking tools (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics) is a plus