Senior Frontend Engineer

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 Senior Frontend Engineer and help us achieve our goals! ?? 

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Yokoy, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing the Yokoy software (SaaS), advancing the technology and scalability, and ensuring a seamless user experience as well as optimal performance. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet our clients' needs and exceed their expectations. We are a product-driven company, and a visionary best-in-class product is the key for our customer’s success. Join our open-minded and intimate team and become part of one of the fastest growing scale-ups in Europe! 

This is a temporary 12-month role with the potential for renewal.

• Your role involves refining, planning, and developingnew frontend features as part of our Invoice engineering team. 
• You collaborate closely with our designers to consistently enhance design and user experience. 
• You develop and maintain robust, efficient, reusable, and scalable frontend components using modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular) is a key aspect of your responsibilities. 
• You will get the opportunity to take ownership of projects and work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment. 
• You will participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and foster knowledge sharing within the team. 
• You will troubleshoot and resolve frontend issues and bugs promptly. 
• You will mentor junior developers and contribute to the growth of the engineering team. 

• You’re an accomplished Frontend Engineer with a track record of web development. 
• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• You are proficient in one or more modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular 2+, Node.js. 
• You have a strong expertise with HTML5, CSS (incl. Precompilers like Sass). 
• You have a good knowledge of web components. 
• You have experience with RESTful APIs and asynchronous programming. 
• You are a problem-solver with a “can-do” attitude and an increased attention to detail. 
• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills. You enjoy working in a team setting and ideally, you’re interested in coaching and mentoring junior members of the team. 
• 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. 

If after reading our job ad you figure that this isn’t the right fit for you, feel free to share it with a friend or colleague who might be interested.  

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/