Senior Frontend Developer

Department: Product Engineering

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

Location: Ghent (twice a week onsite)

Contract: Payroll or Freelance

Role Mission

As a Frontend Engineer, your mission is to design, build, and evolve solutions that solve real customer problems and support business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

1. Product-Focused Engineering

• Build, maintain, and evolve customer-facing web and cross-platform interfaces
• Translate product goals into intuitive, accessible user experiences
• Ensure solutions are:
• Maintainable and scalable
• Performant and secure
• Tested and observable in production
• Collaborate with engineers to integrate APIs and data flows
• Participate in discovery, experimentation, and iteration
• Contribute to mobile-first and multi-device experiences

2. Engineering Quality & Craftsmanship

Apply best practices in:

• Component design and reuse
• Testing and testability
• Performance, accessibility, and resilience
• Error handling and observability
• Take ownership of quality and improve it over time
• Contribute to shared standards and best practices
• Reduce technical debt through pragmatic refactoring
• Improve developer experience (tooling, clarity, onboarding)
• Make sound technical decisions aligned with team and organisation

3. Collaboration & Team Contribution

Work closely with:

• Product Managers (value and trade-offs)
• Designers (experience and usability)
• Engineers (end-to-end delivery)
• Participate in team rituals and feedback loops
• Share knowledge and support team learning
• Proactively unblock work and seek alignment
• Remain flexible beyond strict role boundaries

4. Continuous Learning, AI & Growth

• Continuously develop technical expertise
• Stay up to date with tools and practices
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to:
• Improve productivity
• Enhance code quality
• Accelerate learning
• Engage with career progression through feedback and impact growth

Requirements:

Core Frontend Stack

• Strong TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• Advanced React (hooks, composition, architecture)
• CSS-in-JS, theming, and design tokens
• Experience with large/shared codebases (monorepo a plus)

State Management & Async

• Redux Toolkit and RTK Query
• Handling asynchronous flows and side effects
• RxJS / redux-observable (nice to have)

Testing & UI Documentation

• Jest or Vitest with React Testing Library
• Writing resilient, maintainable tests
• Storybook for UI development and documentation

Tooling & Ways of Working

• CI pipelines and automated quality gates
• Conventional commits and structured code reviews
• Small, high-quality commits and merge requests

Engineering Principles

• Declarative, functional-first approach
• High readability and low cognitive load
• Immutability and modular design
• Strong separation of concerns
• Pragmatic performance optimisation

Interested in learning more?

Koda Staff is managing this search exclusively on behalf of GAMING1.

If the role aligns with your experience, or you'd like to explore fit and scope in more detail, applications and confidential conversations are welcome.