Senior Frontend Developer | Digital Design System | Polestar Digital

We’re expanding, and we need people who share our vision and want to be part of something different. Now we are looking for a Senior Frontend Developer feeling excited about being part of transforming the whole industry.


Let us describe the challenge we offer
Acquisition Tools is a product area responsible for delivering and maintaining Digital Products to support sales activities and customer acquisitions. The products making up the Acquisition Tools product area include  polestar.com (http://polestar.com/), our content management system (CMS), as well as development of our digital design system.


What you will do
As a Senior Frontend Developer for our digital design system at Polestar, you will be a creator, transforming Polestar’s digital vision into working solutions by building digital products, platforms & services. Thereby, Frontend Developers directly influence the digital functionality and how users will interact with it. You also stay on top of the ever-changing technological landscape and invest significant energy in evolving your skills. You are not only up to date on industry trends regarding the Digital Product’s technology stack but also know what the near future will bring.


Other tasks you will be accountable for:

- Work closely with the Digital Lead, Tech Lead and other team members, leading the digital product team and its vision

- Build components and maintain and improve them over time (fixing bugs). Most of the time in close collaboration with (UX) designers and developers from your own team as well as other teams to optimize trade-offs between technical functionality and end-user experience

- Build and test with Storybook to keep code quality high while providing the required features or better alternatives

- Design and develop the business logic and front-end systems of the Digital product

- Ensure the code follows the latest coding practices and industry standards

- Write both unit (jest) and integration (playwright) tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks

- Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions

- Maintain a close relation to Competence Group Leads and Architecture & Standards team (under Deputy CDO) to ensure the latest guidelines and guardrails are followed when developing digital products/services/platforms



Who you are
We are looking for you who is a great programmer. You are a team player and collaborator with an innovative mindset, passionate about technology, and excited about the impact of emerging technologies. To be successful in this role you believe in a culture of complete transparency and trust and are open to learning new ideas outside the scope or knowledge skillset. This is an exciting opportunity for you who is ready to coach junior software engineers on the team.


To be a great fit for this position we believe you have:

- You have solid problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process and analyse information

- You can understand quickly what to test, to provide valuable feedback to your fellow developers in other teams how to solve their issues with the design system

- You master both Typescript & React.js,

- You have deep knowledge and interest in accessibility standards and best practice

- You should ideally be able to work through the “full-stack”, i.e., back-end and front-end. But with a passion and natural focus for frontend

- Experience/interest in developing serverless applications in a cloud environment, preferably AWS

- Experience/interest in working with event-driven microservices and writing effective unit and integration tests

- Preferably, you have experience with design principles and concepts like SOLID and Domain-Driven Design

- Preferably, you already have a strong experience from previous positions as a Developer on a cross-functional and/or agile team

- An interest in data and analytics and data-driven development is a big plus



At Polestar, you will be part of a cross-functional and international team, with English as a natural language for written and spoken communication. Since Polestar’s in a scale-up phase you thrive by working in a fast-paced environment.  The position is located at our Lindhomen Office in Gothenburg Sweden. We understand that work-life balance isn’t easy, and of course, welcome our employees to work flexible hours and from home a couple of days per week if needed.


People at Polestar
We know that a change is needed. We also know that each one of us can help bring about that change. Our commitment to becoming climate-neutral by 2040 is just as important to us as being inclusive, diverse, and innovative. Together, we are creating, collaborating and experimenting to usher in a new era of sustainable mobility.
We are an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in.


Is this you?

If you are interested in joining the Polestar family, don’t wait with submitting your application. We apply a continuous selection process and the job post will be open until the position is filled.


Are you ready for the journey? Which is electric by the way...

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