Frontend Developer (React/Typescript)

The WES UI Team, part of the R&D department, is responsible for delivering and maintaining software tools used across all company departments and by customers.
The team focuses primarily on developing and maintaining frontend applications using React and TypeScript, ensuring high-quality, user-friendly, and scalable solutions.

While the main expertise lies in frontend development, some applications also include backend components built with C# and .NET. Two applications involve backend development, while others are primarily frontend-focused and used both internally and by customers.

Advantages of working in the WES UI Team:

• Frontend Focus: Strengthen your expertise in React and TypeScript by building production-grade applications used across the company.
• Occasional Full-Stack Exposure: Gain experience with C# and .NET backends in selected projects, broadening your technical perspective.
• Diverse User Interaction: Collaborate with multiple departments and user types, ensuring your work has a direct, company-wide impact.
• Innovation Opportunities: Contribute ideas and improvements in an environment that encourages creativity and continuous learning.
• Collaborative Team Culture: Work alongside skilled, motivated, and supportive colleagues who share a passion for delivering quality software.

By joining the WES UI Team, you will have the opportunity to work on impactful projects, shape the company’s software infrastructure, and develop cutting-edge solutions in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Tool Development: Designing and developing modern web-based software solutions to support various company functions. The main focus lies on building and maintaining React and TypeScript frontends, ensuring performant, scalable, and user-friendly applications.
Some tools also include backend components built with C# and .NET, handled within the team when necessary.

Examples of developed tools include:

1. Warehouse Configurator: Enables the creation and visualization of warehouse layouts enriched with metadata, making them compatible with the traffic controller.
2. Handling Unit Configurator: A calculation tool that determines the optimal positions of handling units within the warehouse.
3. WES-UI: A key application used both internally and by customers to monitor and interact with warehouse operations. (And many more tools tailored to the company's needs.)

Full Software Lifecycle: Responsible for the software development process from A to Z, including analysis, coding, testing, debugging, and delivering training for end users.

Optimizing and Enhancing: Focus on refactoring, improving code quality and efficiency, and maintaining a highly performant software architecture.

Cross-Department Collaboration: Collaborate with various departments to gather requirements, ensure the software aligns with business needs, and provide ongoing support to enhance operational efficiency.

Medior : 4–5 years of experience in software development, preferably in an industrial or technical environment.

Required knowledge and experience in one or more of the following technologies:

• React and TypeScript (core focus)
• Modern frontend practices such as component-based architecture, state management, and responsive design
• Frontend tooling such as Vite, Webpack, or similar build tools
• Version control and CI/CD using Git and Azure DevOps
• Unit testing and integration testing with frameworks such as Jest or React Testing Library
• Clean code principles and software maintainability

Additional experience (nice to have):

• Basic understanding of .NET Core and C# for integration with backend services
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and JSON-based data exchange

Fluent in Dutch and English.

What do we offer you?

• A place in an enthusiastic, young organisation with the necessary ambitions
• The necessary freedom and opportunity to take initiative.
• An intensive training by experienced people.
• An attractive salary in an international environment with many benefits:
  • Company car with fuel card/charging pass
  • Group & health insurance
  • Meal vouchers (8€)
  • Net allowances
  • CAO90 Bonus
  • Laptop
  • iPhone + subscription
  • 20 days of vacation plus 12 extra days for working a full year on 40h-workweek instead of 38h (32 leave days in total)
• Satellite office in Berchem ( Antwerp )

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