Staff Frontend Engineer

** While we welcome interest from all over the world, we have a local-for-local recruitment policy so the preferred candidate lives close to the office in de Lier. **

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." — Alan Kay

About Priva Priva is a global leader in climate, water, and energy technology solutions for controlled environment horticulture and building automation.

Position Summary As Staff Frontend Engineer, you are the technical visionary and practice lead driving frontend craftsmanship across Product Development, Horticulture, and Building Automation. While staying hands-on with modern tech, your primary focus is strategic: scaling architectures, defining roadmaps, and elevating engineering standards.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Set the long-term frontend vision, shape architectural designs, and drive the tooling roadmap to meet non-functional requirements (NFRs).

• Standards & Governance: Define coding standards, design systems, and strategies for code evolution, SSDLC security, and multi-team branching/deployment.

• Cross-Org Leadership & Innovation: Lead technical direction across domains, evaluate third-party frameworks, and pioneer new technologies.

• Mentorship & Community: Act as frontend practice lead, mentoring senior engineers, running chapters and guilds, and representing Priva in external tech communities.

What You’ll Bring

• Languages & Web Fundamentals: Expert-level JavaScript and TypeScript, paired with modern HTML, CSS, and web standards.

• Angular & Reactive Stack: Deep mastery of Angular architecture (DI, change detection, routing, forms) and advanced RxJS reactive programming.

• State Management: Extensive production experience with NgRx and Redux-based state management patterns.

• Testing & Quality Assurance: Comprehensive end-to-end and unit testing strategies using Playwright and Jest.

• Architecture & Tooling: Proven expertise in CI/CD pipelines, web performance optimization (Lighthouse, Web Vitals), secure coding, and accessibility (a11y).

What You Will Get

• Competitive salary depending on experience

• 30 vacation days + option to buy extra

• 8% holiday allowance

• Travel reimbursement (€0.23/km or full public transport)

• Pension plan & participation plan

• Personal development budget

• Healthy cafeteria

• Free on-site gym: CrossFit, Pilates, Spinning, table tennis & more