Senior Frontend Engineer

Founded in 2017, refurbed is Europe’s fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, active in 12 European countries and having surpassed €2Bn in GMV — all while being profitable. With beautiful headquarters in Vienna, we operate as a remote-first company, and our 250+ employees enjoy up to two months of workation per year. We’ve also been recognised as a Top DACH Employer by Kununu for three consecutive years.

Our mission is to make sustainable consumption the easy choice by enabling customers to buy products up to 40% cheaper while significantly reducing CO₂ emissions.

If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you’ll feel at home here. We’re a fast-paced, high-performance team that works hard and challenges itself everyday. To enable this high-performance every team member enjoys full autonomy over their location (we’re remote-first).

For our Engineering department, we are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer - Delivery & Returns. This role sits in the Delivery & Returns squad, owning critical customer-facing surfaces such as product discovery, SEO-relevant catalog pages, filtering, delivery experience, and post-purchase flows.

WHO YOU ARE:  

• 6+ years building customer-facing web applications
• Strong expertise in Vue, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript
• Solid fundamentals in semantic HTML, CSS, responsive layout
• Proven track record improving Core Web Vitals and runtime performance
• Hands-on accessibility experience
• Experience evolving frontend architectures (state management, routing, modularization)
• Strong communication skills across engineering, design, and product
• Uses AI tools (ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) effectively and responsibly

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Build and maintain high-quality Vue features for Catalog and Delivery/Returns flows
• Improve Core Web Vitals, bundle size, rendering performance, and overall UX speed
• Own surfaces that impact SEO, conversion, and post-purchase experience
• Collaborate with backend and platform teams on API boundaries and FE contracts
• Contribute to the component library and design system
• Modernize legacy code through refactoring and architectural improvements
• Work closely with PMs, designers, data, and backend engineers
• Mentor engineers and uphold frontend engineering standards

WHY YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING WITH US:

Our Culture and Values:

• Decisions should be made based on facts and not by hierarchy levels? We sure think so!
• We embrace giving and receiving feedback, testing and welcoming new ideas, as well as sharing our knowledge across the company.
• You fail sometimes? Well, so do we! We’re all just human, let’s learn from our mistakes to improve in the future!
• No matter who you love, where you’re from, who you pray to, whether you pee sitting down or standing up – we are a bunch of talented people who enjoy spending our time making a difference!

Personal & Professional Development:

• You'll have access to a dedicated learning budget within your department to support your growth, whether it's courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities that matter to you.
• We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health.
• We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments.

Flexibility:

• We care about a healthy work/life balance. We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna – we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too 😊
• We trust you to do the best job, so we don't care so much when you do it – you are able to self-organize.
• You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops