As a Front-end Engineer, you'll design and implement user interfaces for the Voyage Calculator, ensuring high quality and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors.
Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 600 experts from 35+ countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success.
Join the team behind Kpler’s Voyage Calculator—an innovative tool empowering users to analyze and optimize maritime logistics. As a Front-End Engineer on the Voyage Calculator team, you’ll help build intuitive interfaces that enable users to evaluate complex voyages, simulate routing scenarios, and predict bunker and freight costs with precision. Your work will directly support decision-makers in the maritime and commodities space, helping them navigate key factors like canal crossings, ECA zones, and evolving market rates with clarity and confidence.
Your mission is to:
- Ship features end-to-end - Work in a cross-functional squad to design, build and ship new functionality for our existing products.
- Keep quality high - Write unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews and help maintain our shared component library.
- Improve our UIs - Bring thoughtful ideas on performance, accessibility and visual polish; pair with designers to iterate quickly.
- Collaborate & learn - Contribute to technical decisions, ask questions, share knowledge and seek feedback from senior engineers. Support and mentor other engineers.
- Support reliability - Help monitor, debug and resolve production issues to keep us within our SLAs/SLOs.
- Explore new tech - Take part in spikes or proof-of-concepts to assess frameworks, tooling and best practices that could benefit the team.
It will be a match if you are or have:
- Professional proficiency in English (written & spoken).
- 3+ years building web applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Solid experience with a modern framework - Vue (our main stack) or React, and styling utilities such as Tailwind CSS.
- Comfort writing unit / component tests (e.g., Jest, Vitest, Testing Library).
- Experience consuming RESTful APIs and handling asynchronous data.
- Familiarity with Git-based workflows and basic CI/CD concepts; exposure to Docker or similar container tooling.
- Understanding of clean code principles (e.g., SOLID) and common design patterns.
- Exposure to micro-frontends
- Knowledge of AWS (our cloud of choice) or another major cloud platform.
- Exposure to other languages such as Python or Scala.
- Interest in performance-optimisation, Web Vitals or accessibility standards.
Nice to have
We are a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connections and innovating solutions to tackle market challenges head-on. If you thrive on customer satisfaction and turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?
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Our People Pledge
Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different forms and are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.
Kpler is committed to providing a fair, inclusive and diverse work-environment. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse, global community. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.
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Top Skills
AWS
CSS3
Docker
HTML5
JavaScript
Python
React
Scala
Tailwind Css
Typescript
Vue
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