Senior Frontend Developer

Candidates for this position must be located in the Netherlands.

About Sitly

Join Sitly, an online marketplace that connects families with nannies and babysitters across 20 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and Asia. We pride ourselves on being an independent, fast growing & profitable tech company.

Sitly’s user base grows by the millions every year, and we have set ambitious goals to enhance our service and turn Sitly into the world’s leading childcare platform where any parent can find the perfect babysitter for their children within a day. Our office is located at Rokin in the heart of Amsterdam, directly across from the North-South metro line station.

IND-recognised sponsor: Sitly, through its parent company 2care4kids Holding BV, is an IND-recognised sponsor, allowing us to hire and support skilled migrants for this position.

About the position

As a Senior Frontend Developer at Sitly, you'll work on our frontend systems, building scalable features and improving the user experience for both parents and sitters. We're specifically looking for someone with strong Angular experience.

You'll join our small, experienced stream aligned team, where every developer plays a key role. You'll write high-quality code, contribute to technical decisions, and bring your own perspective to improve how we work. Your input will help shape how we build our product.

What your responsibilities would be

• Build and improve features on our Angular frontend
• Write E2E tests for new features
• Spot bugs and suggest improvements proactively
• Participate in SCRUM ceremonies and collaborate closely with product, quality, and other teams
• Document processes and features as you learn and build
• Share ideas and propose technical improvements to our frontend

Our Stack

• Angular SPA web-app: Our main project for authenticated members
• NodeJS + Express in TypeScript: Our API serving multiple frontends

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• PWA embedded Android app: Our web-app which is loaded under an Android wrapper
• MariaDB: Housing our user and translation data
• CloudFlare: Our layer for DNS management, Workers, CDN, and more
• ElasticSearch + Kibana: Powers our search, logs, and real-time monitoring
• iOS swift app: Our native iOS app

A typical day at Sitly

It's Thursday, one of the two days you work from the office. You arrive at our office at the Rokin just across the metro station in the centre of Amsterdam. You grab a coffee before the team stand-up begins. Some of your teammates join remotely, while others are there in person. You share what you've been working on and sync on priorities for the week. You're currently building a new frontend feature to improve sitter-parent communication, and you plan to pair up later with your onboarding buddy for feedback on your implementation.

After the stand-up, you catch up with the product owner and team lead, who also work from the office for the same couple of days a week. Together, you review an upcoming feature and share your ideas on how to prioritise a few technical improvements. You bring your own perspective on how to enhance the platform. Your suggestions are well received and included in the implementation.

Around noon you enjoy lunch (based on your dietary preferences) together with the team. You all take your time to connect, if the weather allows heading up to the rooftop terrace for a coffee and some fresh air.

In the afternoon, you continue working on your feature, write tests, and pick up a code review request from a teammate.

What we are looking for

The mindset & approach we value:

• You're humble, collaborative, and happy to ask for input when you need it
• You take initiative and find practical solutions without lots of support
• You help keep the team moving forward, not just your own work
• You actively seek feedback and use it to improve
• You like testing new approaches and see failures as part of the process

The experience & skills you bring:

• You are a seasoned frontend developer with experience delivering features end to end

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• Expert in Angular
• Proactive: you take initiative, suggest improvements, prioritise, and take ownership
• Strong grasp of clean code, best practices, and scalable systems
• Fluent in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and familiar with CSS preprocessors
• Solid experience with Git workflows
• Experience with API development
• Bonus: experience with Cloudflare or ELK stack
• Fluent in English, written and spoken

This role might not be for you if...

• You prefer a clearly defined role and development process; at Sitly, scope, teams and priorities evolve as we grow

What we value

Sitly comprises a group of passionate, independent, authentic, and diverse individuals who are humble, eager to learn, and constantly aim to improve. To preserve this culture, we're looking for someone who resonates with our core values:

• Passion: Striving to love what you do and staying highly motivated to achieve your goals
• Curiosity: A desire to understand how everything functions and a passion for learning daily
• Humility: Preferring to admit when you're unsure rather than pretending to know. Being open to seeking help and also readily offering guidance when needed
• Proactivity: Taking initiative and anticipating needs before they arise

Benefits

Building and growing the best platform possible means we need you at your best, and we're committed that you've got everything you need:

• A competitive salary based on your experience
• 27 paid vacation days
• A paid pension plan
• Work-life balance: the flexibility to work on a hybrid schedule, with at least 2 days a week in our Amsterdam office.
• Free lunches on our office days on Tuesdays & Thursdays
• Travel expenses are reimbursed for commutes over 15 kilometers to work.
• Gain bonus shares after one year and the option to buy more at a discount, becoming a co-owner
• Bicycle plan: the option to lease your new bicycle that Sitly will partly pay for you, after the first year of employment
• A laptop with your choice of operating system: macOS or Windows.
• 5 learning days annually as well as budget for self-improvement
• Annual trip with the entire global team (over 20 nationalities)
• Freedom and trust to impact a product benefiting millions globally

Take the leap & apply!

If this opportunity excites you, and you're eager to make a difference to millions of parents and babysitters around the world, we'd love to have you by our side.

The application process includes an initial conversation, an in-depth interview in the office, an online chat with Jules (CEO & Founder of Sitly) and a technical assignment in the office.

More about Sitly & the team

Sitly started in 2012 and has become one of the largest international marketplaces that connects families with babysitters, nannies and childminders, making flexible and affordable at-home childcare possible. Sitly is live on web, iOS and Android app, and has millions of registered families, babysitters, nannies and childminders in 20 different countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, North and South America. Overall we have over 700 thousand monthly active parents and sitters on our platform.

We pride ourselves on being an independent, profitable tech company that has never had to raise any funding. We get up in the morning to improve the experience for our users, and to keep growing fast. One part of our small team (45 people) is working from our office in Amsterdam, and the other part remotely around the world. We have to be smart about what we spend time on: we focus on the basics, while at the same time rapidly and radically testing new ideas.

We are a diverse team made up of 22 nationalities and a culture of independence, getting things done, and being humble while doing so. We focus on growth, but never lose sight of what is most important: providing a trusted childcare platform that instantly connects parents and babysitters in their local area.