Front-End Software Engineer

Job Title: Front-End Software Engineer 

Employment Status: Full-time

Location: Vienna, Austria (Hybrid) or Remote (EU)

Compensation: competitive compensation + performance-based bonus and equity options.
Final compensation is negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

Benefits: free in-office lunch, Wiener Linien ticket, company retreats

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Job Summary

Join us in an exciting opportunity as a Software Engineer, where you will become an integral part of an extraordinary team of engineers dedicated to shaping the future of software at Ketryx. In this dynamic role, you will contribute to a small, highly motivated team, actively steering projects to successful completion.

In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape, assuming ownership of critical technology decisions and roadmaps. With a self-starting attitude and a robust hands-on mentality, you will be at the forefront of tackling complex problems and driving innovation. Embracing agile working models, you will foster ideation, envision future possibilities, and address detailed improvements concurrently, contributing to Ketryx's commitment to reinventing how medical device manufacturers bring life-saving innovations to market. This hybrid role requires at least three days per week on-site in Vienna. If you're reliable, detail-oriented, and ready to contribute to a global team, you could be a part of our mission to create safe and reliable medical software!

About You 

The ideal candidate is someone who possesses a deep passion for software and a profound desire to contribute to enhancing patient treatments through technological innovation. Your innate inquisitiveness, coupled with an unwavering enthusiasm for challenging assumptions, sets you apart. With excellent communication skills in both spoken and written English, you thrive in collaborative environments, where the exchange of ideas is paramount.

As a self-starter, you relish the opportunity to excel in a fast-paced startup environment, taking ownership of technology decisions and roadmaps. Your commitment to driving innovation aligns seamlessly with the ethos of our team, making you an invaluable asset in shaping the future of software at Ketryx. You are driven by a genuine love for software, a desire to improve patient outcomes, and the excitement of navigating cutting-edge challenges.

Unfortunately, we are unable to support non-EU citizens for the position at this time. 

Responsibilities:

• Shape, plan and build product features together with our designers, product managers and other stakeholders
• Build accessible user interfaces with React (NextJS), Tailwind, JollyUI (shadcn) and React Aria
• Establish and maintain good UI development practise in our codebase, while shaping out a well-documented component library with our design team
• Refactor and improve existing user interfaces, ideally by extracting and re-using common components
• Collaborate with backend engineers to define GraphQL schemas as the interface to the backend
• Support and mentor other team members to help them build better UI

Our Tech Stack:

• NextJS / React. The backend and frontend is maintained in TypeScript
• GraphQL/urql for client/server communication. We use GQL fragments and code generation to establish type-safety on the frontend based on the GraphQL schema
• Prosemirror for rich text editing
• Existing UI code built with react-spectrum
• New UI code based on TailwindCSS / react-aria / JollyUI, with strong focus on building custom components
• AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, CloudWatch etc.) for deployment
• GitHub, Jira, Confluence for collaboration

Required Skills:

• Ability to work in a fast moving startup environment, taking ownership of product features and pushing them forward
• 5+ years of full-time industry experience building frontend web applications in a production environment
• Very good understanding of using TypeScript (2+ years) with React (4+ years)
• Good understanding of using React Aria or an equivalent library for building accessible React components
• Experience in either building a design system and/or using an existing component library
• Experience using Tailwind with React

Ideal Skills:

• Good understanding of GraphQL and fragments
• Prior experience with logging tools such as AWS CloudWatch and Sentry
• Prior experience building AI related UI, particularly for large language models (e.g. Chat interfaces, builtin AI interactions)
• Additional full stack experience, e.g. working in a NextJS / express backend, working with a SQL database

Compensation

For Austrian employees, we are offering an attractive compensation package. The anticipated gross annual salary starts at €90,000 plus performance-based bonus and will be adjusted according to your qualifications and experience. 

Keywords: software engineering, software development, databases, full stack, quality, change requirement, V-Model, engineer, SaaS, customer feedback, computer science, comp sci, startup, Series A, Series B, technology, tech, software

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Generous stock options possible
• Work in an exciting field with a positive impact on the world
• Opportunity to learn and grow as part of a global team
• Hybrid work model (mix of work from home and office is possible)
• Generous PTO for full-time

Ketryx is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances

Ketryx is saving and improving lives by making medical software safe and reliable. We empower software teams building medical applications to create safe, secure, and compliant products used by patients and providers worldwide. We believe that, by automating much of the documentation and quality processes, teams will be able to produce safer and more innovative medical software faster.

Ketryx is at the forefront of helping teams incorporate AI/ML into medical software and that’s why we need you!