Full-stack JavaScript Engineer (Remote)

The Bit About Urbantz

At Urbantz, we help the world’s largest retail, grocery, e-commerce, and logistics companies love their last mile with a smarter, greener approach to delivery management. Our SaaS platform was built specifically for enterprises to help them cut through the complexity of multi-fleet operations and drive greater sustainability in the final mile at any scale.

More than 100 brands enjoy the clarity and control to cut their CO2 emissions, allocate smartly across carriers, build unique workflows, and ensure on-brand delivery experiences for recipients with Urbantz.

Since our inception in 2015, we’ve enjoyed phenomenal growth across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. In 2020, Deloitte ranked us third in its annual Technology Fast 50 list.

The Challenge

We're looking for a skilled Software engineer to help us tackle the wonderful challenge that lies in last-mile delivery orchestration & optimization. The product and engineering team is the heart of the company. It's where we turn the challenges our customers are facing into solutions. Product managers will try to understand these challenges as well as possible, at which point we, as a team, try to come up with the best possible solution together.

The Day-to-Day

• You contribute to the building of a modern, highly complex, multiservice application that leads to the delivery of millions of packages per year to clients like yourself.
• You work closely with our product manager, help them prioritize by giving rough estimates of the effort things would take, and helping them come up with ideas on how to address customer needs.
• You participate in our technical support rotation, helping our support colleagues unblock customers by answering questions and fixing bugs.
• We work with short agile development cycles of 2 weeks. We discuss weekly whether we are still working on the topmost priorities. The team itself is in charge of balancing product work with technical work.
• Obviously, you write, remove, and review code. This will be mostly Typescript, with some leftover JavaScript and some Python here and there.
• Our main technologies: We use Angular 19 and AngularJS (yes, we know) on the front-end, and NodeJS for the backend. Our unit tests use Jest, and our end-to-end tests use Playwright. We store data using MongoDB. Our code and CI pipelines are on GitLab, and we deploy it all to Azure using ArgoCD. For containerization & orchestration, we use Docker + Kubernetes.

The Must-Haves

• At least 5 years of relevant experience, preferably in a product company.
• A positive mindset and like to find ways to constantly improve in what you do.
• You have worked remotely before. You can work alone, but you shine when you work together. Pair programming, mob programming, brainstorming... you have no issue expressing your ideas, thoughts, and comments.
• You value the quality of your work. You know that any shortcut you take today will be a debt to pay in the future (but you understand sometimes taking them makes sense).
• You consider testing part of the job, not an afterthought.
• You know how to build a scalable, maintainable application.
• You stay abreast of developments and best practices within the technologies we use.
• Proficiency in TypeScript.
• You reside in Europe, in a time zone close to one of the Urbantz HQ (CET), and within ±4 hours of travel so that we can fly you in twice a year for our on-site team events.
• Fluent in English.

The Great to Haves

• Affinity with the logistic sector. No, ordering things online doesn't count.
• Experience in Python.

The Perks

• Work where you choose: our fancy offices in the center of Brussels, your spare bedroom, a cabin in the woods… you decide.
• Autonomy to define and navigate your own path to success.
• A competitive salary, the right tools, and a range of fringe benefits depending on your country's location.
• An incredibly diverse international team and a company culture that encourages freedom, creativity, and collaboration.
• Opportunities to grow your expertise through training, workshops, and conferences.
• Team meetups in Brussels, an annual off-site somewhere sunny.