Frontend Developer - Design System & Accessibility

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Join Postcode Lottery Group as a Frontend Developer - Design System & Accessibility in Amsterdam, a full-time onsite role focused on enabling product teams via the Design System library, driving accessibility improvements, and keeping pace with frontend tech. You’ll collaborate with the Design System team, support teams using the system, lead WCAG based accessibility work, and contribute to UX and technical challenges. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of frontend experience with HTML, CSS, TypeScript and React, solid accessibility expertise and Agile, CI/CD, Git and testing practices; bonus points for Tailwind, Storybook, Jest, NPM, AWS, etc. Salary €5,000-€6,500 monthly. Apply with CV and cover letter to Paulo Pablo via the link, and tailor your materials to accessibility and design system impact with concrete examples.

Join our team to develop and enhance applications for our lottery systems, directly supporting numerous charities and making a positive impact every day. If you’re looking for a role where your technical expertise meets meaningful work, we want to hear from you! And every day at work, you’ll be doing your part for all the charities we support.

Steve Redshaw, Developer: “You enable advanced data-driven marketing ideas on a modern stack. At the same time, you help raise millions of euros for charities, large and small, all over the world! How much impact do you want to make today?”

As Frontend Developer - Design System & Accessibility, you will:  

• Together with the Design System team you will be responsible for enabling numerous product teams across our international lotteries to create best-in-class experiences for the players who use our websites and web-based apps.
• You will do this by contributing to and improving our Design System component library, as well as advising and supporting the teams using the Design System.
• As the team's web accessibility specialist, you will also take a lead role in improving the accessibility of our design system, including associated tooling and processes.
• Actively contribute to improvements in user experience and solve technical challenges.
• Keep up with new developments in Frontend technologies and integrate them into our projects.

You would describe yourself as follows:

• You have extensive front end development experience, with at least 3 years in a relevant role; extensive HTML, CSS, Typescript and React experience is a must.
• You are an expert in web accessibility who knows their way around WCAG guidelines and screen readers, and you have played a key role in improving accessibility compliance and processes in a previous job.
• You are experienced with modern development tooling and methodologies, such as Agile, continuous integration and deployment, automated testing, Git version control – and you love a good feedback loop.
• Experience with the following will also be an advantage: design systems, NPM libraries, Tailwind, SASS, Jest, Storybook, functional programming, NPM, front end build tooling, front end frameworks, AWS, cloud infrastructure, monitoring.
• You are detail oriented. In the Design System team it is often necessary to put additional effort into achieving that extra 5%, so you should be someone who gets satisfaction from precision in your work.
• A monthly salary indication between €5.000,- and €6.500,- based on a 40-hour week and flexible working hours.

Join us

We believe an inclusive organisation is the ideal breeding ground for creativity, collaboration and innovation. Employee solidarity is important to us, too. Each of us has a part to play in that – we are the organisation, after all. We strive to make everyone feel at home. That means keeping an open mind and paying attention to each other’s welfare.

Can you see yourself as part of the team? We encourage you to apply – whatever your roots, religion, age, ability to work or life philosophy.

Please send your CV and cover letter (mandatory) to our Recruitment Business Partner Paulo Pablo through the link above.

Acquisition is not appreciated.