Frontend Developer - Design System & Accessibility

Join our team to develop and enhance applications for our lottery systems, directly supporting numerous charities and making a positive impact every day. If you’re looking for a role where your technical expertise meets meaningful work, we want to hear from you! And every day at work, you’ll be doing your part for all the charities we support.

Steve Redshaw, Developer: “You enable advanced data-driven marketing ideas on a modern stack. At the same time, you help raise millions of euros for charities, large and small, all over the world! How much impact do you want to make today?”

As Frontend Developer - Design System & Accessibility, you will:  

• Together with the Design System team you will be responsible for enabling numerous product teams across our international lotteries to create best-in-class experiences for the players who use our websites and web-based apps.
• You will do this by contributing to and improving our Design System component library, as well as advising and supporting the teams using the Design System.
• As the team's web accessibility specialist, you will also take a lead role in improving the accessibility of our design system, including associated tooling and processes.
• Actively contribute to improvements in user experience and solve technical challenges.
• Keep up with new developments in Frontend technologies and integrate them into our projects.
  
  

You Would Describe Yourself As Follows

• You have extensive front end development experience, with at least 3 years in a relevant role; extensive HTML, CSS, Typescript and React experience is a must.
• You are an expert in web accessibility who knows their way around WCAG guidelines and screen readers, and you have played a key role in improving accessibility compliance and processes in a previous job.
• You are experienced with modern development tooling and methodologies, such as Agile, continuous integration and deployment, automated testing, Git version control – and you love a good feedback loop.
• Experience with the following will also be an advantage: design systems, NPM libraries, Tailwind, SASS, Jest, Storybook, functional programming, NPM, front end build tooling, front end frameworks, AWS, cloud infrastructure, monitoring.
• You are detail oriented. In the Design System team it is often necessary to put additional effort into achieving that extra 5%, so you should be someone who gets satisfaction from precision in your work.
• A monthly salary indication between €5.000,- and €6.500,- based on a 40-hour week and flexible working hours.
  
  

Join us

We believe an inclusive organisation is the ideal breeding ground for creativity, collaboration and innovation. Employee solidarity is important to us, too. Each of us has a part to play in that – we are the organisation, after all. We strive to make everyone feel at home. That means keeping an open mind and paying attention to each other’s welfare.

Can you see yourself as part of the team? We encourage you to apply – whatever your roots, religion, age, ability to work or life philosophy.

Please send your CV and cover letter (mandatory) to our Recruitment Business Partner Paulo Pablo through the link above.

Acquisition is not appreciated.

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We offer

A solid foundation

You can count on a good salary, a variable year-end bonus, and an excellent pension plan.

Development

No matter your role, your growth is a priority. Our Lottery Academy offers plenty of training. You get the chance to move up and work on international projects.

Work and travel

You work in our sustainable building near Amsterdam Zuid station. Plus, if you have a contract for more than 24 hours, you get an NS Business Card. That means free travel all over the Netherlands, even outside work hours!

Fun

We celebrate successes together with monthly drinks and parties. You’ll learn more about our charity partners during inspiring talks and activities. And there’s plenty more to enjoy working here at the Lotteries.

Sports and relaxation

Join pilates, kickboxing, or bootcamp. Or book a chair massage, physiotherapist- or vitality coach session, right at the office. After work, your VIP-KAART gives you free entry to 180 museums and discounts on fun outings.

Work-life balance

For a good balance, you get 28 vacation days per year based on a 40-hour workweek, plus flexible hours. Becoming a mum or dad? Congrats! During your maternity or parental leave, you keep 100% of your salary.

Meet the team

The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it’s a win-win!

Since the start of the Lotteries in 1989, we have raised over €13.5 billion for thousands of good causes. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day. This is what we call: The Power of Postcodes.

About The Postcode Loterij & VriendenLoterij

A marketing-driven charity organisation

The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it’s a win-win!

Our purpose: a better world, for everyone

Since our start in 1989, we have raised over €14.5 billion for thousands of charities. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day.

Inclusion and equal opportunities

People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it’s our team, our players, or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better – that’s just who we are.