Frontend Development Working Student

Thrive on innovation with a global technology leader. Develop exciting customer-centric digital solutions and business models in the diverse, dynamic and stable work environment at ZEISS Digital Partners.

Join our inspiring colleagues in a modern workspace and benefit from our open culture. Cooperating closely with our ZEISS businesses around the globe, we enable the digital future @speed and @scale for ZEISS.  

Your Role

At ZEISS, you have the chance to seamlessly integrate your studies with hands-on experience by actively participating in exciting projects. This opportunity enables you to acquire valuable skills, broaden your network, and develop both professionally and personally.

Your daily work routine will be a vibrant and engaging blend of the following tasks:

• Support our Web Component Development team in building, testing, and maintaining reusable frontend components for digital products and platforms

• Contribute to the implementation of modern, scalable, and user-centered frontend solutions using web technologies

• Collaborate closely with developers, designers, and product stakeholders to refine requirements and translate them into high-quality frontend components

• Assist in improving the usability, accessibility, responsiveness, and consistency of our component library and frontend applications

• Help document components, usage guidelines, and development standards to support efficient collaboration and adoption across teams

• Participate in debugging, testing, and optimizing frontend code to ensure quality and performance

• Support the integration of web components into larger applications and contribute to the continuous improvement of our frontend development processes

• Directly apply the skills and knowledge gained during your studies to real-world projects

Your Profile

• Enrolled student in computer science, media informatics, software engineering, or a comparable degree program

• First practical experience or solid knowledge in frontend development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript

• Interested in modern frontend architectures and component-based development

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are able to understand technical requirements quickly

• Collaborative team player who is also independent, open-minded, proactive, and agile in your thinking

• You exhibit a structured work approach and effectively organize your tasks

• You are fluent in English

• You are available for a minimum of one year and 20 hours per week

Nice to have

• You have gained first experience with frontend frameworks or libraries such as React, Angular, Vue, Lit, or similar technologies

• You are familiar with Git, package managers, and common frontend development workflows

• You have a basic understanding of responsive design, web accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility

• You understand how different disciplines—concept, design, and development—work together to create high-quality digital products

• You have conversational skills in German or are eager to improve your proficiency in the German language

Sounds exciting? Then become part of #teamZEISS and help us shape the future! Please provide your complete application documents (CV, transcript of records).

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Ines Kloda