About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Svelte Developer based in Netherlands.
Responsibilities
- Frontend Architecture and Development: design, architect, and build a modern web frontend from scratch using SvelteKit, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
- Rendering Strategy: define and implement the appropriate rendering approach across SSR, SSG, ISR, and edge rendering.
- Performance Optimization: establish and maintain measurable performance targets, including LCP below 2.0 seconds, INP below 200 milliseconds, and CLS below 0.1.
- Design System Development: build and maintain a reusable component library and scalable design system in Svelte.
- User Interface Implementation: translate product requirements, wireframes, and design specifications into clean, composable, accessible, and responsive frontend components.
- SEO and Web Standards: implement and maintain essential search engine optimization practices.
- Testing and Quality Assurance: establish frontend testing standards using Vitest for unit testing and Playwright for end-to-end testing.
- Developer Experience and Tooling: configure and maintain frontend development workflows, including linting, formatting, type checking, pre-commit hooks, and CI quality gates.
- Code Quality and Technical Leadership: lead code reviews, promote best practices, document architectural decisions through ADRs.
- Backend Integration: integrate frontend applications with backend APIs and contribute to API contract design.
- Deployment and Infrastructure: support CI/CD pipelines and application deployments on AWS.
- Performance Monitoring: use tools such as Lighthouse, WebPageTest, and real-user monitoring solutions.
- AI-Assisted Development: implement and refine AI-powered coding workflows.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience developing and maintaining production applications with Svelte and SvelteKit.
- Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
- Deep practical experience with Tailwind CSS.
- Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, semantic markup, and web accessibility principles.
- Proven track record of building high-performance web applications and optimizing Core Web Vitals.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable frontend architectures from scratch.
- Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining reusable component libraries and design systems.
- Strong understanding of Svelte state management approaches, including stores, context, and runes.
- Practical experience with Vitest for unit testing and Playwright for end-to-end testing.
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows.
- Hands-on experience implementing agentic development workflows using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent AI-assisted coding platforms.
- Strong problem-solving, documentation, and collaboration skills.
Conditions
- Fully remote, international environment.