Frontend Software Engineer, Skilllab
Career exploration platform
Job no longer available
Career exploration platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower people to turn their skills into careers.
Role
Who you are
- You are excited about our social mission to empower everyone to have a pathway to employment
- You have 4-8 years of experience in front-end development, with extensive knowledge in TypeScript, React (version 18+ with hooks), PWAs, Material UI and other libraries in the React ecosystem(emotion, jest, redux, swr)
- You have a learning mindset and bring the drive and curiosity to tackle new coding challenges
- You work collaboratively in an engineering team and are empathic towards our end-users
Desirable
- You have some experience of Ruby and Rails, Storybook, animation frameworks, bundlers, service workers, Web APIs, or Google Cloud
What the job involves
- Guidance solution beautiful and the user experience seamless
- You will ensure that every job seeker (regardless of age, gender, culture) can get personalized career guidance through our app
- You will code using React and TypeScript
- You collaborate with the other engineers through code reviews and by integrating with our backend and DevOps infrastructure
- You learn how we leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence to allow job seekers to better understand their skills and get matched to education and jobs
Our take
Founded with a focus on the integration of refugees into European labour markets, SkillLab is now a technology company assisting all job seekers that are in need of career support.
Using artificial intelligence, SkillLab helps people discover their skills and connects them to relevant careers and education. Founded in Amsterdam, the company operates in over fifteen countries and has grown its market position after its innovative use of AI was recognised with the Google AI Impact Award.
Despite expanding its services to cater to all job seekers, it hasn’t forgotten its original focus on work with social impact, recently partnering with Humans in the Loop to improve the employment and education prospects of forcibly displaced people in seven different countries.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2021
$1.8m
SEED
Total funding: $1.8m
Company benefits
- Join our bi-annual offsite events for the whole company
- Easily access your learning budget to invest in your personal development
- Access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator)
- Learn from your colleagues during company-wide lunch learning exchanges
- Receive feedback from your peers and team lead at least twice per year
- Contribute to various digital or physical company-wide events through the year
- Work flexibly from our office in Amsterdam, or remotely with intermittent trips to Amsterdam
- Get relocation support, incl. visa, 30% ruling application, to move to Amsterdam
- Get work equipment and commuting support if you don’t live in Amsterdam
- Work in a team with people from 12 countries, using English as their shared language
- Enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year, and additional leave (e.g. parental leave)
- Regularly interact with our users and see our impact on their lives
Company HQ
Oude Pijp, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Ulrich Scharf
(Managing Director)Previously co-founded rootAbility and Maastricht University Green Office, serving there as Sustainability Project Coordinator. Experience as Director of IT and Analytics for GRESB and as a Bank Clerk for Commerzbank AG.
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