Kryha

Lead Frontend Engineer - Enterprise

Are you someone that can build beautiful, performant web applications? Do you like keeping up with the latest techniques and technologies in frontend development? Do you want your creative technical ideas to be listened to, heard, and implemented?

We are looking for a talented and experienced Lead Frontend Engineer that has strong problem-solving skills and coding skills to strengthen our already aspiring development team. Within this role, you lead and set the pace for the frontend engineering team.

About Kryha

Kryha is a blockchain product studio headquartered in Amsterdam. We empower enterprises to improve their ESG performance by reinventing supply chain collaboration. Our digital solutions allow customers to trace materials and confidentially share verified ESG data across supply chains, providing actionable insights through powerful dashboarding. 

Our multidisciplinary team consists of ~30 industry strategists, product designers, and software engineers. We are bridging the gap between the cutting-edge world of distributed technologies and enterprise innovation. We thrive in multi-stakeholder projects, allowing us to work with industry leaders (Fortune 500) all across the globe and be involved in shaping the future.

 

About the job

This position will be responsible for the frontend development of Kryha's user interface ensuring an enhanced user experience, reusability, consistency, reliability, speed, and security. The role requires strong technical leadership with hands-on development. You’ll be collaborating with product leaders, designers, and other engineers to establish best practices and help blaze the trail for our new and rapidly growing development team.

You will help the team succeed by thinking about ways to improve processes, suggesting ways to make the team more effective, and mentoring and modeling engineering best practices. Help other engineers remove any roadblocks they might have, work with them to predict possible future challenges, and identify bottlenecks

Responsibilities:

• ​​Provide technical and thought leadership to agile team members through mentorship
• Help develop ways of working in frontend development following industry best practices
• Carry out issue resolution, troubleshooting, roots cause analysis, and implementation of solutions
• Provide mentorship, identify improvement areas, define & implement a training process to constantly improve the frontend skills of the engineering organization
• Help interview and onboard future hires to the frontend team 
• Daily check-ins with the engineers and the product owners
• Stay on top of the frontend technologies, threats, and opportunities, what’s coming and going
  
  

What we expect from you: 

• 5+ years of experience in frontend development 
• Interested  in working with cutting edge technology
• Always voice your opinion for both threats and opportunities you see
• Comfortable with React and Typescript. Full understanding of the fundamentals and principles of JavaScript
• Able to work with REST endpoints documented with Openapi
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Ability to mentor and guide more junior developers in their growth
• Able to take a leading role in a project
• Self-directed, investigative, highly responsible, and work well in a team environment

What can you expect from us and the role: 

• Pioneer the next internet revolution: Be at the forefront of this technological revolution, and help us reshape industries with distributed technology. 
• Learn the in’s & out’s of blockchain technology: Collaborate with blockchain experts, and learn how the technology works and how to apply it.
• Influence the disruption of entire industries: Engage in technical discussions and help us design & build enterprise-grade blockchain solutions.
• Be part of our growth: Join a fast-growing company with a global footprint and grow along with us.
• Shape your own success: Unique opportunity to kickstart your own professional path, develop your expertise and accelerate your career based on your own ambitions. Let us know what you want and we will see what we can do!  
• Expand your international network: Work autonomously on different projects across the globe (we’re currently running active projects on 4 continents)
• Inspiring and ambitious colleagues: Work with a young and eager team dedicated to changing the status quo.
• Fun and energetic atmosphere: Join a warm group of open-minded peers and enjoy your time together during work as well as off-work team activities
  

Kryha was founded 5 years ago: The good elements of the startup vibe are still around but the team is experienced and our clients are mature. We really believe that our projects change the world for the better and that doing so must be fun! A beautiful office, Friday drinks, team lunches, sports, and yearly team activities are all part of the deal.

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Want to know more? Feel free to send us a message or give us a call at +31 6 27 05 52 35. For email, you can find us at jobs@kryha.io

For more information check out our Website and LinkedIn page!

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Note for recruitment agencies: Please don't send any introduction other than to jobs@kryha.io. If you think you can make "a match made in heaven." we are open to your introduction. But, we will only accept candidates with the following information: First and surname, salary expectations, reference check, and the candidate need to be aware of the introduction to us. Also, we would like to receive a summary of the terms of business. We don't agree to any terms of business attached to email introductions. 

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.