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Senior Frontend Developer

  • Hybrid
    • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  • Sales

Job description

About us: Iconic brand, tiny company.


Polaroid was founded in 1937 by one of the most seminal innovators of the 20th century, Edwin Land. His motto was, “don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” In 2008, Polaroid shuttered its last factory but a group of diehard fans came together as The Impossible Project to save instant film. Over 10 years later that startup acquired what was left of Polaroid and today we’re again a small group of people passionate about empowering creators to change the world in the name of Polaroid. 

 

Job Summary:
As Senior Developer on the eCommerce team, you’ll be responsible for maintaining, improving, and expanding Polaroid.com. You’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable code that ensures our website is fast, stable, and ready to scale. 
Together with the Product Owner you’ll set technical direction.

Key responsibilities:

  • Maintain and evolve our existing site and features, ensuring high performance, reliability, and stability.

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor new features, APIs, and integrations across our headless commerce stack.

  • Work with and extend our headless commerce architecture, taking ownership of front end, serverless functions, system integrations, and content pipelines.

  • Provide sizing and complexity assessments for new User Stories using the ICE method, contributing to realistic planning and delivery.

  • Review code, mentor and guide less senior developer(s), and uphold coding standards and engineering best practices.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve bugs, performance issues, scaling challenges, and production incidents with a strong sense of ownership.

  • Own and drive architectural decisions, ensuring the long term scalability, resilience, and maintainability of our technology stack.

  • Evaluate, select, and implement new tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns that improve developer productivity, performance, and future readiness of the platform.

  • Take responsibility for stack efficiency, performance, and cost optimization, continuously improving infrastructure and operational efficiency to reduce P&L impact and support margin improvement.

  • Lead stack optimization initiatives and automation efforts that increase efficiency across the broader organization, including future B2B initiatives and cross functional digital projects.

  • Identify and recommend best in class, next generation technologies, including AI driven solutions where relevant, and translate them into practical implementations that create measurable business value.

 

Our stack:

  • JavaScript / TypeScript (full stack).

  • Sanity CMS (content platform).

  • Vercel (hosting and deployments).

  • Headless Shopify (commerce backend via APIs).

  • REST / GraphQL APIs.

  • Modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js or similar).

  • CI/CD pipelines, performance tooling, monitoring.
     

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience building web applications.

  • Fluency in JavaScript and TypeScript.

  • Experience with modern front-end frameworks (React / Next.js preferred).

  • Familiarity with headless CMS and API-driven commerce (Shopify or similar).

  • Understands best practices in performance, testing, and maintainable code.

  • Can work independently on assigned tickets and deliver high-quality solutions.

  • Enjoys collaborating with a small, focused team.
     

Nice-to-have: 

  • Sanity CMS experience.

  • Prior work on high-traffic eCommerce platforms.

  • Knowledge of serverless functions, caching strategies, and observability tools.

 

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