About us:

In the words of Inc Magazine “Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world”. Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the planet”, Bloomberg calls it  “Davos for geeks”, Politico “the Olympics of tech”, and the Guardian “Glastonbury for geeks”.

Whatever Web Summit is it wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team of nearly 200 employees, including world class engineers, data scientists, designers, producers, marketers, salespeople and more. 

We’ve disrupted an old industry by building incredible software and designing mind-blowing events. We’ve revolutionised how people come together in our world. We started with one event: Web Summit. But now we’re creating category defining events all over the world, from Asia to North America. 

We’re just getting started.

About the team:

The Web Product Team develops and maintains websites and applications for our ever growing number of vertical sites for brands such as Web Summit, Collision and others.  Our Web Developers work with Design, Content, Product and Engineering teams, creating world class user experiences, connecting attendees across the globe and testing website concepts on an array of different devices. While they focus on our larger sites, they flex skills and try out new technologies on any number of interactive pieces and side projects.

Due to increased demands, we are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to take the reins on new products. 

What you’ll achieve at Web Summit:

• You’ll take the lead on the design and architecture of a new suite of products
• You'll work in a small team of web developers, driving technical direction and decision making. 
• You’ll participate in website design and wireframing, development and maintenance, content editing and publishing, taking the lead on certain projects.
• You'll create and develop web content using ReactJS and the latest in Javascript frameworks and languages.
• You’ll work in a collaborative environment liaising directly with various departments across the business to generate world-class web content.
• You’ll provide support to the digital team with display advertising design and other ad-hoc projects.

Who you are:

• You are highly motivated and passionate about coding and technology in general.
• You have strong architectural experience, building out world class products from conception to delivery. 
• You are comfortable taking a project from initial specs to completion, dealing with project managers and stakeholders.
• You can gather requirements from specific teams and turn them into technical specs.
• You love working in a fast-paced environment with varied and rapidly changing goals.
• You have experience building custom sites on WordPress or other CMS platforms. You relish the challenge of learning new programming languages and technologies on the job.

Skills and abilities we’re looking for:

• 5+ years experience in a commercial Frontend/WebDev role.
• You've led teams and projects, from concept to delivery. 
• The ability to write clean, responsive code without using a framework.
• You are highly proficient with the latest Javascript languages, specifically React and Vue.
• Excellent HTML(5), CSS, jQuery and Javascript skills.
• Demonstrable experience developing websites, applications and CMS.
• Experience with WordPress, specifically custom theming/plugin development.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
• Git/BitBucket or other version control experience.
• Grunt/Gulp experience within complex applications a plus

Work Location

Home Office or any SUSE Location near the CET Timezone

Our Product

At this position you will work on the Open Build Service (OBS). A Linux release engineering platform to collaborate on building and distributing software. The OBS helps SUSE to ship software to its customers. For a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures.

Our Team

We are a team of Web Developers spread all over Europe. Most of us work from home, a few of us you find in the SUSE headquarter in Nuremberg/Germany. All of us focus on the full stack that makes up our application. From UI/UX design using HTML/CSS/Javascript, over Creating Business Logic with Ruby on Rails to Data Modeling on our SQL database. We also practice the DevOps culture and Operate & Observe our code in production environments. This means each and every one of us takes care of the complete life cycle of the code we produce. We conceive, write, test, instrument, deploy, roll back and debug our code! We also believe in the agile principles and organize our work together in the SCRUM framework. https://openbuildservice.org/bs-team

This position will report to the Engineering Manager of the team, Hendrik Vogelsang.

Our Values

Here is what we identify as our team culture and how those attitudes translate into our daily practices. We are looking for people whose personal values have some overlap with ours. We value: Customers. By understanding peoples' goals, needs and their limitations. Everything we build and change, everything we do, we do for the people using our product. Diversity, pluralism and freedom of choice. We think differences, not uniformity, in origin, circumstance and experience make people, the practice of software development and in the end, our product interesting. We believe it takes a diverse set of people to produce a product truly useful for everyone. Ownership. Instead of hiding behind processes, or driving relentlessly towards individual goals, we take ownership of the entire situation. We do that when things go smooth but also when things go wrong. No matter if they were in, or out of our control. No matter if that hurts and bruises our ego. It was never anyone else's fault, it was ours. We believe ownership is how we respect others. Collaboration. By working toward shared goals, in a horizontal structure with flexible leadership. We do not only share results with each other, but how we got there. We constantly reflect our behavior and how it brings everyone else forward with us. We win together, we lose together. Quality. By taking due time, avoiding shortcuts, pacing ourselves. By being critical of what we do and by welcoming critique from others. We always leave our code base, processes and team better than we have found it. Community. By curiously exploring what other people inside and outside this industry think, do and produce. We expose ourselves to all kinds of ideas and openly share our own views. We strive for personal growth by continuously learning about other people, technology, development methodologies and efforts. We are open minded, always evolving adventurers

Perks

Apart from the usual benefits of working for an established software engineering enterprise (competitive pay, rewards, established career ladder etc.) we can make the following happening for you. We are all about a healthy work life balance. You join a company that's still growing fast and yet is over a quarter century old. We didn't get here by burning out people. At SUSE we believe that without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. That is why we provide flexible working hours, a flexible vacation policy and access to professional life & career coaching. We'll give our best to help you maximize your well-being, because we are in it for the long run. We are all about creating opportunities for personal growth. You will have a personal budget for autonomous learning (O'Reilly/Linkedin Learning etc.) and for visiting industry events. The team spends every other Friday afternoon together sharing what they got inspired by. We frequently practice pair programming and kick off projects in mob programming. Every week you will have the opportunity to attend exciting lunch & learn sessions by SUSE industry experts. We also run company wide hackathons (Hack Week) multiple times a year where you are free to work on any activity of your passion for a week! We want you to become a better engineer. We are all about hacker culture following the community best practices. Most things you do for SUSE will be open source. We expect you to contribute back upstream. We encourage you to openly share your own views with the global Free Software community. That means you can spend the majority of your work time on your public track record. Your public code and collaboration will be your next resume!

Your Responsibilities

We are looking for someone with strong Ruby on Rails experience. You should also be well-versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Experience with site reliability is a plus but not a requirement. We require a strong proficiency in English (spoken and written) and the ability to convey what you want to other people. You might have a computer science degree, you might not have any formal education like that. That is not what we are looking for. You might have spend 20 years in our industry or 2. That is not what matters to us. We care about what you can do and how you do it, not about how you got here.

Here is what the team does day in day out:

Public Open Source Software Development

As the Open Build Service is a Free Software project, you ideally have a background in this development method.

• Implementing features/bug fixes for the product • Improve quality and lower technical debt of the product

• Review and evaluate code/issue submissions from other developers and customers

• Cooperate with the team and other stakeholders to align plans in an agile fashion

• Document features, workflows and concepts

Site Reliability Engineering

As we are practicing the DevOPS culture, you ideally know how to do

• Continuous integration of the product with other software in the stack

• Continuous deployment

• Monitoring the health and performance of deployments

• Incident management

• Infrastructure management

About us:

In the words of Inc Magazine “Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world”. Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the planet”, Bloomberg calls it  “Davos for geeks”, Politico “the Olympics of tech”, and the Guardian “Glastonbury for geeks”.

Whatever Web Summit is it wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team of nearly 200 employees, including world class engineers, data scientists, designers, producers, marketers, salespeople and more. 

We’ve disrupted an old industry by building incredible software and designing mind-blowing events. We’ve revolutionised how people come together in our world. We started with one event: Web Summit. But now we’re creating category defining events all over the world, from Asia to North America. 

We’re just getting started.

About the team:

The Web Product Team develops and maintains websites and applications for our ever growing number of vertical sites for brands such as Web Summit, Collision and others.  Our Web Developers work with Design, Content, Product and Engineering teams, creating world class user experiences, connecting attendees across the globe and testing website concepts on an array of different devices. While they focus on our larger sites, they flex skills and try out new technologies on any number of interactive pieces and side projects.

Due to increased demands, we are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to take the reins on new products. 

What you’ll achieve at Web Summit:

• You’ll take the lead on the design and architecture of a new suite of products
• You'll work in a small team of web developers, driving technical direction and decision making. 
• You’ll participate in website design and wireframing, development and maintenance, content editing and publishing, taking the lead on certain projects.
• You'll create and develop web content using ReactJS and the latest in Javascript frameworks and languages.
• You’ll work in a collaborative environment liaising directly with various departments across the business to generate world-class web content.
• You’ll provide support to the digital team with display advertising design and other ad-hoc projects.

Who you are:

• You are highly motivated and passionate about coding and technology in general.
• You have strong architectural experience, building out world class products from conception to delivery. 
• You are comfortable taking a project from initial specs to completion, dealing with project managers and stakeholders.
• You can gather requirements from specific teams and turn them into technical specs.
• You love working in a fast-paced environment with varied and rapidly changing goals.
• You have experience building custom sites on WordPress or other CMS platforms. You relish the challenge of learning new programming languages and technologies on the job.

Skills and abilities we’re looking for:

• 5+ years experience in a commercial Frontend/WebDev role.
• You've led teams and projects, from concept to delivery. 
• The ability to write clean, responsive code without using a framework.
• You are highly proficient with the latest Javascript languages, specifically React and Vue.
• Excellent HTML(5), CSS, jQuery and Javascript skills.
• Demonstrable experience developing websites, applications and CMS.
• Experience with WordPress, specifically custom theming/plugin development.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
• Git/BitBucket or other version control experience.
• Grunt/Gulp experience within complex applications a plus

JOIN OUR AMAZING COMPANY!

Being part of WebDevStudios means more than just having a job. We strive to foster passion, creativity, innovation, and pride in what we accomplish every day. We look to our employees to show us where they really shine and put each individual’s skills and interests at the forefront of our projects.

We could not accomplish what we do daily without our employees and the wonderful jobs they perform. They are our most valuable resource. We recognize that when you love what you do, your best self-shines through.

Do you enjoy working with the server-side principles of web applications and WordPress themes? Are you enthusiastic to push the web forward, and better yourself? Are you passionate about mentoring and serving your teammates? Join and let’s work together to solve some of the most interesting and challenging engineering problems in the WordPress space through our partnerships with our amazing clients.

Your Day-to-Day

As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the effort to define and develop the technical vision of projects for your team. You will also be ensuring the code being delivered, is of substantial quality. In practice, this means mentoring your team, reviewing code, coordinating releases, working with Project Managers and stakeholders to keep an eye on milestones and budgets. You will need excellent verbal and written communication skills — while adhering to our values, Agile methodologies, coding best practices, and established organizational processes.

This is a full-stack engineering role, and modern frontend experience is often needed alongside traditional PHP backend expertise.

Learn more about what it’s like to be part of the gang at WebDevStudios.

Qualities that matter to our team:

• A positive attitude, a good work ethic, and enjoy helping others.
• Be a supportive team member and leader.
• Be candid and respectful.
• Not afraid to ask for help, teachable, a quick study, and have the ability to be flexible when “stuff happens.”
• Understand deadlines and can complete a variety of tasks throughout the week.
• Willing to participate in company-paid training courses to further their skills.
• Excited about contributing back to open-source technologies.
• Comfortable communicating via Slack and participating in video calls with their team while working remotely.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver solutions for prioritized deliverables.
• Lead, mentor, and support other Engineers.
• Ensure project teams meet documented deadlines, budgets, and complete tasks in accordance to project milestones.
• Enforce coding best practices and testing requirements.
• Communicate the status of your work to Project Managers and participate in a project team and department calls.
• Take responsibility for the engineering success of your project(s).
• Be available during normal business hours.
• Able to work remotely, with a strong emphasis on communication and organizational skills.

Requirements

• You have 2+ years of professional experience as a Lead Engineer, Technical Lead, or Team Lead.
• You have significant experience with most of the following areas of technology and the ability to quickly learn and close any gaps that you encounter while engaged: WordPress at scale, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Gutenberg, WP-CLI and WP REST-API, RESTful services and APIs, linting PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.
• You have good working knowledge with: build-tools like Gulp, WebPack, Docker, package management tools like NPM and Composer, Git, and CSS preprocessors like SASS.
• You have experience developing responsive interfaces and debugging for a wide range of browsers and devices.
• You have a strong comprehension of PHP and object-oriented programming (OOP) practices.
• You have experience setting up code deployments and build/test environments.
• You are familiar with Agile SCRUM and Waterfall project methodologies.
• You can follow, and help enforce, coding best practices.
• You possess the ability to work effectively and dependably in remote environments.
• You possess the confidence to effectively present well-reasoned options to decision-makers.

Benefits

We know the value in supporting our employees’ holistic well-being, and we make sure our benefits package reflects our commitment to our team.

• 100% Paid Medical
• Paid Sick Leave
• Unlimited Flex Time
• 25 days paid time off
• Work from anywhere
• Employee 401k
• Paid Continuing Education
• Paid Parental Leave
• Annual Company Retreat