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

• Warehouse Configurator: Enables the creation and visualization of warehouse layouts enriched with metadata, making them compatible with the traffic controller.
• Handling Unit Configurator: A calculation tool that determines the optimal positions of handling units within the warehouse.
• 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.
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• 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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Any T&Cs from these third parties will not be accepted unless upon signature of the T&Cs by a person in charge of HR.

Candidates remain registered in the system for 12 months and cannot be proposed again during this period.