Welcome to SkillLab

At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has a pathway to employment. We enable and lead a radical change - a focus on skill-based approach to employment services. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient labor markets by empowering people to turn their skills into careers. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 25+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.

Your opportunity

Say goodbye to various approval loops to change app icons. You will be working on big, new features and immediately see the result of your engineering work.
You will work on an innovative and AI-driven career guidance solution that will help millions of job seekers across the world to find jobs and education.
You will experience the culture of a technology start-up and work in an international environment with SkillLabers from +28 countries.

Your team

You will join our front-end team as the new Front-end software engineer in Amsterdam. The engineering team is comprised of three small squads. The three squad leads are Yasser, Lala and Aaron. Aaron is also the Head of Engineering at Skilllab. Other SkillLabers who make the engineering team awesome are:

Barry, Nubar and Refai as our backend engineers.
Ivana, Kilani, Ibraheem, Nouraldin and Mojtaba as front-end engineers.
Gaspar as our full-stack engineer and domain lead.
Luiza and Nathany who take care of our QA processes.
Hamza is managing our DevOps work.

We are proud of the people we collaborate with and excited to work at a company with a strong social mission. We hope you will be too!

What you will do

You will write the code for new features that will make the front-end of our career guidance solution beautiful and the user experience seamless.
You will ensure that every job seeker (regardless of age, gender, culture) can get personalized career guidance through our app.
You will code using React and TypeScript.
You will collaborate with the other engineers through code reviews and by integrating with our backend and DevOps infrastructure.
You learn how we leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence to allow job seekers to better understand their skills and get matched to education and jobs.

Requirements

Your skills

You have 3-5 years of experience in front-end development, with extensive knowledge in TypeScript, React(version 18+ with hooks), PWAs and libraries in the React ecosystem(emotion, Material UI, vitest, redux, swr).
You have a learning mindset and bring the drive and curiosity to tackle new coding challenges
You work collaboratively in an engineering team and are empathic towards our end-users

Extra awesome

You have good working knowledge of Next.js, Remix, or other frameworks with strong support for server-side rendering.
You have some experience of Ruby and Rails, Storybook, Playwright, animation frameworks, bundlers, service workers, Web APIs, or Google Cloud.

Salary & start-date

We use a salary benchmark for the Dutch high-tech sector to set your salary based on your experience. We expect that the annual gross salary for the experience we are looking for ranges from 55k-65k Euro per year.
We accept applications on a rolling basis, and we envision a start date as soon as possible.

Benefits

You will enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year (20 days as the statutory minimum holiday entitlement in the Netherlands plus 5 extra days from SkillLab).
You can work flexibly both from our office in Amsterdam or remotely within the Netherlands. You can also extend your holiday stay in a different country and work from abroad for a limited period of time.
You will get an extensive relocation support to move to Amsterdam including visa sponsorship, 30% ruling application, your plane tickets, covered real estate agent fees etc.
You will have a personal learning budget to invest in your professional development.
You will have access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
You will have access to a monthly flexible budget of benefits via Alleo app. You can spend this budget on a large selection of providers, ranging from gym memberships to bike subscriptions and online stores.
You will join our bi-annual company offsite retreats in different locations like Belgium, Netherlands etc.

What else to know?

This is how we lead tech projects at SkillLab: https://lala-rustamli.medium.com/leading-technical-projects-the-skilllab-way-717a6c5ac268
Read more about our compensation framework: https://skilllab.io/en-us/news/skilllab-compensation
Get some tips for your interview with SkillLab: https://skilllab.io/en-us/news/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-skilllab

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