The Role: What to expect

As a Frontend Software Engineer (m/f/d), you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and  optimizing the user-facing components of our SaaS application. Your primary focus will be on building responsive, interactive, and scalable interfaces with Vue.js and related technologies to deliver an outstanding user experience within our robotics ecosystem.

Role Responsibilities: What you will do

• Design and implement responsive and interactive user interfaces using Vue.js and related technologies. 
• Develop reusable and modular components that adhere to design and coding best practices. 
• Design, implement, and test APIs implementations for global deployment in production environments. 
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications. 
• Implement user-friendly interactions and intuitive workflows to enhance the overall user experience. 
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of the frontend codebase to ensure high-quality software. 
• Keep up-to-date with industry best practices, technologies, and trends related to backend development and Microservices. 
• Provide support and technical guidance to external development teams to meet project milestones. 

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Frontend Software Engineer, working on complex web applications or SPAs. 
• Strong proficiency in Vue.js (or similar: Angular or React) and related frontend technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/ES6+). 
• Demonstrated ability to create visually appealing, responsive, and user-friendly web interfaces. 
• Solid understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices, with a strong design sense and attention to detail. 
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and async code design and implementation. 
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively within a team and across functional groups. 
• Knowledge of version control systems, such as Git, and proficiency in using Git workflows (e.g., branching, merging, pull requests). 
• Preferred Qualifications in:
  • Proficiency in working with real-time communication protocols (Websockets). 
  • Experience with best practices for unit/integration/e2e frontend tests frameworks and tools (e.g., Jest, Cypress, Selenium) to ensure code quality and reliability. 
  • Knowledge in implementing and working with Service Workers in web applications.
  • Understanding of frontend performance monitoring and debugging tools (e.g., Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse). 

Why idealworks

• At idealworks, you will find an international working environment and become part of an experienced, open team where mutual trust counts. You will feel at home from the very first second!
• Experience a first-hand start-up feeling and flat hierarchies with varied and responsible tasks that you work on independently.
• Look forward to hybrid working model with 30 vacation days per year and various opportunities to balance your free time, family and job.
• For your commitment to helping us achieve our mission, you will not only be rewarded with appreciation, but also with above-average pay including a bonus scheme and an annual personal development budget.
• We offer exciting corporate benefits, an attractive company pension scheme and regular team events.
• Our modern office is easily accessible by public transport, bike and car and offers numerous catering options for relaxed lunch breaks with your team.
• Driven by our unique corporate culture, the five values "passion for results", "wellbeing", "personal growth", "trust" and "being and acting as one team" determine our daily actions and cooperation.

About us

As a forward-thinking deep tech company, idealworks has been enabling the future of logistics and industrial automation since November 2020. Its flexible, scalable robotics ecosystem, featuring the intelligent automation platform AnyFleet for seamless mobile robot integration, the CE-certified autonomous mobile robot (AMR) iw.hub, the simulation technology iw.sim, and the advanced robotics operating system iw.os, is reshaping intralogistics processes for companies globally. Emerging from its roots as a BMW Group spinoff, idealworks is committed to driving efficiency and operational optimization in a rapidly evolving automation landscape.