Frontend Engineer, Picnic - Delivery - New York bei Picnic Delivery

About Picnic

At Picnic, we’re reinventing the way employees experience lunch at work. By partnering with top local restaurants and batching hundreds of orders, we make it easy for companies to offer high-quality, individually packed meals, without fees or tips. Our mission is to create a seamless, affordable, and joyful lunch experience that benefits both employees and employers.

What You’ll Do

As a Frontend Engineer, you’ll work on building intuitive, high-performance interfaces and user experiences. Depending on your strengths and interests, you’ll have the opportunity to focus on:

• Infrastructure: Optimize frontend architecture to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Platform: Develop internal tools and component libraries that empower other engineers and designers.
• Product: Build responsive and visually stunning interfaces for customer-facing applications.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, high-quality web applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, backend engineers, and product managers, to deliver impactful features.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and accessibility.
• Maintain and extend reusable component libraries and design systems.
• Ensure high standards of code quality through peer reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Mentor junior engineers or take on leadership roles, depending on your seniority.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for engineers who combine a passion for building exceptional user experiences with strong technical expertise.

Basic Qualifications:

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular).
• Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX, or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of web fundamentals: HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design principles.
• Familiarity with frontend build tools like Webpack, Vite, or Babel.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or WebSockets integration.

Why Join Us?

• Drive real impact: Be part of building the operational engine behind a fast-growing startup that’s redefining how work gets done.
• Changing the restaurant industry: You’ll be part of a team that helps restaurants succeed in online food delivery.
• Collaborative environment: You will work with a talented and diverse team that values innovation and learning. You will receive support and guidance from experienced colleagues and managers, helping you to learn, grow and achieve your goals, and you’ll work closely with other teams to ensure our customer’s success.
• Grow with us: At Picnic, there’s room to grow—personally and professionally—as we scale and take on new challenges together.
• Exciting Projects: Contribute to products and systems used by millions worldwide.

What else do you need to know:

This role is based in our New York office. As a company driven by innovation and continuous change, close collaboration is essential. We’re constantly reimagining our industry, creating new products, and refining our processes, and we do our best work together. That’s why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.