Front-End Engineer - React / React Native, Store & Web

In a nutshell 

As we continue building the best milkman on earth, we’re looking for frontend engineers who want to shape the digital shopping experience used by millions across Europe. We’re looking for people with experience in B2C product companies at scale, where engineering quality, customer impact, and product thinking are essential. You’ll thrive in our international environment, where clear communication and close collaboration across product, design, backend, analytics, and frontend teams are crucial.

This is not a role where you simply receive tickets and implement predefined solutions. You will help shape the problem, challenge assumptions, make technical decisions, and work with others to create the best experience for our customers.

About the role

In this role, in addition to working with React daily you'll be working with our powerful server-driven UI framework that's at the heart of our business's success:

• Powers our entire shopping app and enables rapid iterations
• Drives sophisticated personalization at scale, delivering tailored content to each user
• Empowers our business teams to operate the store autonomously - dozens of operators and analysts make every day real-time updates without any further tech involvement

In this role you can expect to work with a wide range of technologies within the JavaScript ecosystem, across the full stack! Experience with React Native is not required, we’ll get you up to speed with that on the job.

Tricks of the trade

• Build for millions: Work in a small, collaborative team to build and evolve Picnic’s consumer-facing Store and Web experiences across mobile and web.
• Turn problems into products: Translate customer and business needs into clear technical plans, practical frontend solutions, and shipped features.
• Shape decisions together: Collaborate with product, design, backend, analytics, and frontend colleagues while clearly communicating your reasoning and making trade-offs visible.
• Raise the bar: Proactively improve code quality, performance, processes, and team practices beyond your immediate responsibilities.
• Enable Picnic to move faster: Contribute to our server-driven UI and shared frontend architecture, while owning your work from understanding the problem through feedback and iteration.

We’re looking for

• 4+ years of professional software development experience, with strong frontend experience in React, React Native, TypeScript, or a similar JavaScript framework.
• Experience shipping and maintaining customer-facing applications, with a strong focus on testing and quality.
• Product-minded approach: able to turn ambiguous customer or business problems into clear technical plans and thoughtful trade-offs.
• Clear, structured communicator who collaborates effectively with product, design, backend, analytics, and frontend teams.
• Proactive owner who improves things beyond their assigned work, shares their perspective, adapts to new information, and remains eager to learn.
• Genuine motivation to build consumer and e-commerce experiences used by millions, with willingness to work from Picnic’s Amsterdam office-first environment.

Picnic Perks

✍🏼 Every expert was once a beginner! 

You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

💡 Make a difference

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place! 

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 Teamwork makes the dream work

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

🍎 You are what you eat

You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

🚴🏽 Stay healthy 

Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials. There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing! 

🔋 Attractive package

We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries 

🌍 Benefits for expats 

It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.