Senior Front End Developer

Job Description

Rotterdam - In this role as a senior frontend developer you will help create the best experience for delivering news to our readers.

On a daily basis our content reaches millions of users, making DPG Media the biggest media house of The Netherlands and Belgium. We have built a white-label platform for web and app which serves our 2 biggest national news brands AD.nl and HLN.be, as well as 8 regional brands in the Netherlands and Belgium. You will join one of our 3 teams and build technology with Next.js and Typescript.

About the team

You will be part of a cross-functional and agile web development team that consists of developers and UXers of many different nationalities. So, our communication is in English.

Our home base is our Rotterdam office - located right next to Rotterdam Central Station - and close to our editorial staff and other digital teams that work on this platform. On Tuesdays, we have our office day, and most other days, we work from home.

What you will be doing

Youll be working in a full-stack team, both web and in the future app development, to deliver new features like flexible homepage, article preview and article enrichments. Everything to enrich the experience for our visitors and enable the editorial team to bring the news in the best possible way. You will also be working together with other front-end developers from different teams.

While building new web frontend features for our platform, you will always strive for the best code quality and apply the necessary security measures. You will also work closely with the Product Owner, our (UX) designers, and business stakeholders. Your main tasks are:

You build it, you run it: designing, coding, testing, deploying, implementing new features and doing day-to-day operations for all our websites

Identify bottlenecks and improve the system to make it more robust, scalable and work fluently.

Share knowledge with our other web frontend developers and together make sure our platform grows and moves in the right direction.

Who you are:

For this position, we expect a senior level of maturity and at least 4 years of experience with high-traffic websites and NextJS. Naturally asking questions and proactively giving suggestions to see where you can add value. Were looking for someone who likes taking initiative with a collaborative attitude.

You have deep knowledge of NextJS and Typescript and optional: Design System, basics and UX/UI development

With us, youll get an inspiring work environment thats constantly evolving. Colleagues who think in terms of possibilities, see the glass as half full, and we give you the chance to develop yourself every day. We do this, among other things, through our DPG Campus / DPG Academy. This gives you every opportunity to bring out the best in yourself and be a true media maker!

A salary that matches your work experience
A 36-hour workweek (depending on contract type)
8% holiday pay and 4% personal choice budget
Annual profit sharing based on DPG Medias performance
Opportunities for development, both on the job and online through our DPG Academy / DPG Campus
Opportunity to customize your own cultural holidays!

More reasons to want to work at DPG Media (NL)
At DPG Media, we work for more than 90 strong news brands, magazines, TV shows, radio stations, and online services such as Qmusic, NU.nl, Tweakers, Libelle, VTM, and more. We reach over 90% of the Dutch population and 8 out of 10 Flemings every month. We offer you a professional work environment where we highly value freedom. We give you all the space to work on your future by offering workshops and training. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, a learner, and a team player with us, and most importantly, feel free to be yourself. At DPG Media, everyone is welcome. So, apply, regardless of your background. Over 5,500 smart colleagues are eager to welcome you into a team, whether its a project team, a pub quiz team, or a sports team.

Discover what we have to offer. And, while youre at it, you can also find us on LinkedIn and X.

Applying, and then?
Are you ready to get started? Apply now! Youll receive a response to your application within 10 working days, letting you know whether youre in the first selection round. If you are, well contact you by phone to schedule an appointment at our office in Amsterdam. Want to know more? Contact Tino (Recruiter) via email: [email protected]