Senior Frontend Engineer

Ohme is on a mission to accelerate the global transition to clean, affordable energy. We do that by serving as an integrated hardware and software smart-grid platform, focused on the residential EV charging market.

The worlds of energy, transport and artificial intelligence are colliding and Ohme is at the heart of this new era. By using technology and data integrations to connect cars, chargers, people, energy providers and more, Ohme has a powerful platform that puts the consumer at the core.

Ohme has been selling its chargers to consumers since mid 2019 and has had exponential growth since. We are now operating in multiple countries and have partnerships with the likes of VW, Mercedes, Octopus Energy, and other innovative brands.

We are scaling up the business and are building out the team for rapid growth. If you’re interested joining a fast-growing cleantech venture on a data and AI-first journey to speed up the global transition to clean, affordable energy, read on!

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help shape the next generation of our product experience. You’ll play a key role in building a unified platform from our multiple customer-facing portals, while modernising our frontend stack. This is an opportunity to lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive best practices for scalable, maintainable frontend systems.

What You'll Do

• Architect and Build: Lead the development of scalable frontend applications using Next.js, React, and TypeScript within our monorepo (Turborepo) setup.
• Unification & Migration: Help consolidate multiple legacy portals into a single product, while guiding the migration of Vue apps into Next.js.
• Modular Design: Contribute to and expand our UI component library; ensure consistency and accessibility across the product using Storybook.
• Client Side Data Strategy: Implement efficient data-fetching strategies with SWR and related libraries, ensuring performant and resilient user experiences.
• Technical Leadership: Drive improvements in our modular architecture, code quality, testing strategy, and development workflows.
• Collaboration: Partner with backend engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver high-quality, user-centric features.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance to mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews, technical sessions, and pair programming.

What We're Looking For

• Proven Experience: 7+ years in frontend engineering, with ideally 1+ year in a senior role.
• Expertise: Deep knowledge of frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript, with experience in some common frameworks such as Next.JS, Gatsby, Nuxt etc.
• Architecture Mindset: Experience designing scalable, modular applications utilising an eco system of shared packages and tooling.
• Design Systems: Strong background in building and maintaining component libraries, and using Storybook or similar for documentation/testing.
• Performance & UX Focus: Understanding of frontend performance optimisation, accessibility, and responsive design.
• CI/CD: Experience with CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy containerised apps.
• Testing: Experience with frontend testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Testing Library, Playwright).
• AI: Interest and experience in using AI to help optimise repetitive tasks and help solve well understood problems (we mainly use Cursor with a few other tools).

Nice to Have's

• Familiarity with Vue.js is a plus, especially for guiding migrations to React/Next.js.
• Experience with design tokens and theming strategies across products.
• Interest and/or experience in working on BE systems (we use Kotlin).

Why Join Us?

• Help drive the unification of multiple platforms into a single cohesive product.
• Be part of a forward-thinking engineering team working with modern tools and practices.
• Take ownership of core architectural decisions that will define our product’s future.
• Work in a collaborative environment where your ideas and expertise will have a direct impact.

Our benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus
• Hybrid office / remote-working practices

Ohme is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the heart of what we do and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We actively seek out a diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed and to feel included.