Frontend Engineer

SOUNDBOKS is a dynamic and innovative audio tech company and an aspiring lifestyle brand. You may have seen our products and us at a music festival, your favourite sport event, your friend’s celebration or at your beloved artist’s release party. We create the loudest, most durable, and arguably the coolest Bluetooth speakers on the market.

Growth is not something we offer, it’s who we are. Learning is at the centre of everything, people will teach you what they know and the involvement is yours to take. We’re talking a real-time, on-the-job, experiential approach to learning, and it’s our ultimate goal that you leave the office everyday having learned something new.

With 90 team members in Denmark and the United States, SOUNDBOKS is equal parts seasoned professionals and passionate unconventionals. We’ve got an amazing thing going, and it’s only getting better.

ROLE FRONTEND ENGINEER

TEAM DIGITAL EXPERIENCE

HOURS FULL TIME

LOCATION COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

START DATE ASAP

The Digital Experience team at SOUNDBOKS is a part of the Commercial organisation. The team focuses on building our owned platforms, both the website and the mobile app, and ensures delivering the best possible and harmonious digital experience to our customers.

As a Frontend Engineer at SOUNDBOKS, you will be a part of a team consisting of developers, a QA engineer and designers in order to implement a cohesive UI/UX across the platforms, including the mobile app. It’s a dynamic role where the eye for design comes in handy and your natural instinct for fine-tuning will help solidify future solutions. The chance to switch between different projects will also make sure it’s not a stand-still kind of a job. In short, you will focus on assuring that our app and web users have the smoothest experience possible.

Okay, let’s make things a little more concrete. Here’s what we expect your daily life to look like:

Challenge, translate and guide the implementation of design.

• Working closely with our UX/UI designers to ensure implementation limitations are considered in designs.
• Collaborating with UX/UI designers on creating design systems while maintaining consistency across projects.
• Translating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes into high-quality code.
• Making good use of and extending our component libraries while ensuring efficient implementation of UI together with the whole team.

Create, maintain and guide frontend solutions within the team and toward the wider organisation.

• Working with a team of engineers to maintain and improve our React Native app, while allowing and intergating the control of the SOUNDBOKS devices through the app.
• Ad-hoc assisting with the maintenance of our web shop where front-end expertise is needed, ensuring continued ease of use of CMS for our content specialists.
• Ensuring our public-facing UI implementations meet accessibility (a11y) standards where required.
• Adapting best practices from our QA engineer in ensuring well tested features and key user-flows across the projects you are a part of.

Cross functional Collaboration and Support

• Collaborating with stakeholders and engineers from product and other commercial teams in implementing frontend solutions that fit their use cases.
• Helping with documenting the solutions and feature definitions, in order to ensure easy maintenance and continuous improvement in the future.
• Help drive our agile way of working, allowing for efficient processes around our projects.

In order to become a success in this role, we believe that your profile should be aligned with the bullets listed below.

The fundementals:

• You’ve got 3+ years of experience with app development using React Native, and it might even come with some bonus experience with native iOS or Android development.
• You’re skilled in using React Native to create platform-agnostic mobile apps.
• You also have 3+ years of experience building good looking and well functioning websites with frameworks such as, but not limited to Svelte, Vue, React and have worked closely with UX/UI designers to create well-functioning design systems and component libraries.
• You can translate, guide and implement mobile-first designs that help ensuring UI consistency across projects.
• You’ve got a good understanding of agile (SCRUM) methodologies and have used the practices in your work with both internal and external stakeholders.
• You good at taking your own initiative at work and crunching through tasks quite independently.
• You know how to hit the right the level of communication and documentation needed to deliver projects that can be scaled in the future.
• You actually enjoy the fact that you can make a big difference with your role.
• You approach challenges with an open mind, are there to boost the team spirit and are mindful of your own presence in the room.

Stuff that's extra nice:

• You know your way around design such as Figma, Adobe XD, Zeplin and Photoshop and have a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines such as Firebase, BuildKite, Circle CI, Vercel or similar for app and web deployment.
• You also know how to handle data fetching with methods and tech like GraphQL, REST, Websockets, and RPC.
• Ideally, you carry knowledge on working with Shopify and Shopify Themes in particular.

We also acknowledge that success can take many forms, so please do apply even if you don’t tick all the boxes.

Intrigued? At SOUNDBOKS you’ll find yourself a part of a community. We realize that growth is a process and we don’t expect you to go through it alone. Actually, we guarantee that you won’t have to. We work together in order to work smarter, we inspire each other to be better, and we never forget that every member of the team is responsible for our success.

So, if you’re tired of all of the noise in the job market, we’d love to hear from you. This may be the coolest job you ever have.