Frontend Architect

Do you want to join us on the journey of disrupting the spend management business? Do you like to work in a fast-paced scale-up with a passionate and supportive team? Yokoy is hiring! 

After closing our $80M Series B funding in 2022 and going through a hyper growth phase, we are now striving to lead the tech-focused transformation in our field and become the number 1 all-in-one spend management suite for midsize and enterprise companies. Join us as our new Frontend Architect and help us achieve our goals! ?? 

As a Frontend Architect you are responsible for leading the frontend practices, coach and mentor our frontend engineering community / guild across the different applications (web and mobile) and technical delivery of front-end components. We are a product-driven company and visionary best-in-class product is the key for our customer’s success. The development of flexible and well-structured frontend architectures is crucial for our continuous growth. Exceeding our customer’s expectations regularly is important for us; having excellent Frontend best practices in place helps us achieve that.

• You develop flexible and well-structured frontend architectures for web and mobile applications (Angular)
• You will work with engineering, product managers and UX teams, engineering managers and tech leads in an agile environment, to define system architecture across our products, setting technology standards and strategy.
• You will take the technical leadership of our frontend community as well as support and further train the team members
• You act as a mentor and coach for our frontend engineers
• You will represent the front-end solutions at the customer
• You drive the advancement of new topics and further development of the company's internal standards
• We also expect you to participate in specific development as a hands-on Senior Frontend Engineer

• You’re an accomplished Architect or a Principal Frontend Engineer with a track record of working in a SaaS environment, developing frontend architecture solutions for a product-driven company
• Degree (University/University of Applied Sciences) in computer science, IT or similar
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, delivery-driven, dynamic and agile environment, building new things and driving a topic forward as well as establish new standards
• You have a profound knowledge of the Angular framework
• You’re an excellent communicator with experience in coaching / mentoring
• You bring a strong business acumen
• You are fluent in English, other languages are a plus

• Resources and trust: you own your work and shape things from day one. 
• Flat hierarchies: opportunity to work closely with the founders and the leadership team. 
• Fast-paced environment: quickly measure and learn about the impact of your work. 
• Flexibility: everyone has their own highly productive times - we look at the output and not at what time it was produced. 
• Hybrid setup: we enjoy in-person sessions, but we have also learned (thank you Covid) how to be efficient with remote working. 
• Competitive scale-up package with the possibility to partake in the upside. 
• Work anywhere: we offer up to 6 weeks remote work within the EU. 

We are keen to get to know you. Apply with your CV and/or LinkedIn profile and a few words on why you would like to join Yokoy. We look forward to your application! 

????What’s going to happen next: we aim to get back to you regarding your application within 8 business days. Our interview process tends to take around 4 weeks to complete. If you need more flexibility or are on a tighter schedule, don’t be afraid to let us know. 

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This is important to us: Yokoy is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We welcome people from all backgrounds who are looking to make the future simple with us. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. 

Yokoy is an intelligent spend management platform, trusted by modern finance teams to streamline invoices, expenses, and payments. Powered by AI and machine learning, Yokoy automates up to 95% of manual processes. 

?? Established in 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland, Yokoy is trusted by leaders at over 600 of the world’s most forward-thinking companies to help them transform how they spend, by transforming how their people spend their time. Designed to sit at the heart of the modern finance tech stack, Yokoy connects with the leading ERP systems, invoicing platforms, travel booking tools, and other enterprise finance tools to power end-to-end automation and provide complete visibility across the enterprise. Yokoy is backed by leading investors including California-based Sequoia Capital, New York-based Left Lane Capital and London-based Balderton Capital. 

https://yokoy.io/