Responsibilities
- Own the frontend architecture of squad applications, including component structure, state management, data fetching, and long-term evolution.
- Build fast, accessible, reliable interfaces for complex, data-heavy logistics workflows.
- Design and build rich user interfaces for AI agents that support reviewing, guiding, and trusting agent actions.
- Shape API contracts and contribute to backend or backend-for-frontend code when appropriate.
- Collaborate with Operations and Product to understand workflows and improve requirements.
- Lead initiatives from discovery to production, coordinating across teams and delivering incrementally.
- Write technical documents such as ADRs, RFCs, and initiative write-ups.
- Raise standards for UI quality, testing, monitoring, performance, frontend observability, and on-call practices.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ownership of production web applications from start to finish.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, performance, and unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Product and systems mindset with understanding of workflows, data, APIs, and business outcomes.
- Working knowledge of backend systems, API design, services, events, and databases.
- Experience with accessibility, usability, design quality, and close collaboration with designers.
- Experience writing technical documents that influenced decisions.
- Practical experience using AI tools in engineering work with attention to quality and security.
- Clear English communication and a collaborative approach to improving team effectiveness.
- Preferred: hands-on Node.js backend or backend-for-frontend experience.
- Preferred: experience with MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, event-driven microservices, logistics or B2B operations products, AI-powered or agent-driven experiences, design systems, and frontend observability or performance monitoring such as Datadog.
Benefits
- The company emphasizes putting people first, valuing care, efficient systems, direct communication, and diverse perspectives.
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About Forto
Forto was founded with the vision to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless and sustainable digital supply chain. Forto platform technologies address the entire process stream, from offer, booking, document administration, tracking and tracing to pro-active exemption processing and analysis, supporting our customers with greater visibility, insight and control. Leading manufacturers and e-commerce brands are among the 2.500 customers using our tech-enabled offerings as part of their supply chain delivery. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, we currently count more than 500 employees with 15 locations across Europe and Asia including offices in Berlin, Milan, Warsaw, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Forto's privacy policy: https://forto.com/en/privacy-policy/ Our imprint: https://forto.com/en/imprint/