Frontend Developer

**Deliver smooth and highly engaging user experiences**

Twipe is a mediatech scale-up based in Leuven, Belgium working with leading newspaper publishers in Europe and the US to grow their digital subscribers and sustain quality journalism. We offer cloud based digital edition publishing, analytics, and personalisation solutions. Our solutions accelerate the growth of newspapers like the Le Monde, The Telegraph and DuMont.

To inspire our industry, we gather and analyse industry knowledge and share insights with our growing Future of News publishers’ community.

As **Frontend Developer** you are interested in building performant React based web apps and React Native mobile apps platforms. You will focus mainly our webapps or mobile apps depending on your core skills and will contribute to other frontend teams in Twipe. Dare to make the difference and have impact from Day One

**Your responsibilities**:

- Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs that match designs.
- Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
- Integrate carefully selected third-party API’s.
- Write unit and integration tests.
- Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
- Reach out to the open-source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes.

**Your skills****:

- Ability to take total ownership over your work.
- Identify with the goals of Twipe clients and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.
- An understanding of React/React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
- Ability to work through new and difficult React/React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
- You have a forensic attention to detail.
- You have a strong work ethic, a real “can do” attitude.
- You are a true team player, a good listener and have strong communication skills.
- You have a Growth Mindset. You’re constantly striving to learn new things and improve.
- You follow industry news, regularly tinker with new technologies, and read books and blogs to keep your skills sharp.

**Your profile**:

- Bachelor’s degree in (applied) computer science, master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent through experience.
- 4+ years of professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of professional experience working with React and/or React Native.
- Experience working with Swift, Objective C, and Java are a plus but not required.
- Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
- Experience with libraries/frameworks such as Redux, Redux-saga.
- Experience with common software engineering practices such as OO-development, common design patterns, unit testing, secure coding practices (OWASP), writing clean and neat code and documentation.
- Knowledge of common technologies such as REST web services, OAuth, JSON, XML, SQL.
- Experience with agile software development.

**What do we offer?**:

- The opportunity to make a difference from day one in a technology scale-up, solving problems of global interest for the media sector.
- We offer personal development opportunities and have a strong trackrecord of growing people beyond their competences and comfort zone.
- A challenging job in a young & dynamic company at the fore front of innovation in emerging technologies.
- The opportunity to join a young, international team with entrepreneurial spirit, at the verge of international breakthrough.
- An attractive workplace at the crossroads of creativity, design and technology.
- Team building events like a well-deserved Tomorrowland VIP experience, a team trip to climb Mount Etna or a skiing trip in Austria.

**Interested in the transformation journey of the publishing industry and eager to be part of a growing business? Join our team**

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