Frontend Software Engineer

Frontend Software Engineer Join Waitwhile at an exciting stage of our journey. You’ll have a real impact on our product and engineering culture, while learning, growing, and building experiences used by millions worldwide. Who we are💙 Here at Waitwhile we're on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped over 150 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, Delta Airlines, and thousands more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help. The role We’re looking for a talented Frontend Software Engineer to join Waitwhile’s mission of eliminating waiting. You’ll help shape our product by designing and building advanced UIs that balance flexibility and simplicity, creating experiences that delight users and meet the high expectations of global brands. Joining a small-but-growing team, you’ll collaborate closely with our cross-functional engineering teams, product managers, and designers to conceptualize and ship impactful new features. Our tech stack includes TypeScript and JavaScript, NodeJS, Firebase, Firestore, BigQuery, Angular, and React, running on Linux in Google Cloud Platform. While you will be working with Angular in this role, we welcome applicants with strong experience in other modern frontend frameworks like React or Vue. What matters most is your drive, problem-solving acumen, and ambition to level up your skills while building an incredible user experience. Our stance on AI: We are forward-leaning and actively leverage AI to boost efficiency, streamline code reviews, and automate repetitive tasks. However, we are not a "vibe coding" shop. We care deeply about software craftsmanship, we look for engineers who take pride in reading, writing, and thoroughly understanding the code they ship. What you'll own Advanced UI development: building settings UIs, guest journey builders, message template logic, and other complex flows. Component libraries and reusable modules: ensuring consistency, scalability, and performance across the product. Best-in-class user experience: balancing powerful features with intuitive design to save customers time and delight end users. Performance and optimization: driving improvements in responsiveness and frontend scalability for large enterprise use cases. Collaboration: working with Product Managers, Designers, and Backend Engineers to conceptualize and ship impactful new features. Quality and standards: contributing to engineering best practices, tooling, and processes while assisting our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues. What skills you need 2+ years of experience building web applications with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue). Strong programming skills in TypeScript. Ability to balance UX craft with engineering scalability and a strong product-oriented mindset. Great communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to different audiences in fluent written and spoken English. Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems). A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Bonus Skills & Attributes You have prior experience building with Angular (though you will learn it on the job if not!). Work in open source or side projects. You're experienced with NX mono repos or RxJS. You've worked at a Startup or built a SaaS platform. T his position is based in Stockholm at our bright offices on Kungsgatan 32. We’re a hybrid company and prefer that you work from the office at least 2 days per week, as we believe the best product gets built together, live. A great place to work❤️ We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great benefits and perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. Join Waitwhile at this exciting stage and help shape both our future and your own. Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture, we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, what are you waiting for? Apply for this job! Department Engineering Locations Stockholm Remote status Hybrid Stockholm Grow with us. Life balance We're parents, care-givers and multi-faceted humans that don't want to spend all our time working. We do great work, but also encourage a great work-life balance. Autonomy Your self-starting personality will shine when you have the freedom to shape your work and help guide the product's direction. Great benefits Health benefits, retirement packages and generous time-off policies help keep your overall well-being a priority. Professional growth We want to see you thrive. You will contribute to the larger vision of Waitwhile while growing in your career journey. About Waitwhile Waitwhile is a wait management platform that helps businesses deliver better waiting experiences for their customers through automated, personalized and smartphone-based line experiences. Waitwhile has improved the wait experience for over 250 million guests and collectively given people back over 100k years they would have otherwise wasted waiting in line. Our customers include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Google, Facebook and thousands of other businesses looking to improve their waiting experiences. The company was founded in 2017 in San Francisco with the mission to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that humans waste standing in line every year. Waitwhile has secured $12 million in funding from investors including CRV and has offices in the US and Sweden.