Junior React Native Developer

In a nutshell

At Picnic, we're revolutionising the way people buy groceries with our affordable and sustainable grocery service. We do almost everything in-house, developing cutting-edge technologies and processes to ensure we continue to grow rapidly without missing a beat.

In all our customer-facing products, we use React. Our mobile application uses React Native, combined with our home-grown server-driven UI framework. We have ambitious plans to unify our mobile and web applications into a single platform. Quality is our top priority, so we use TypeScript across the board.

We are looking for ambitious front-end engineers to help us bring the grocery shopping revolution to millions of customers. In this role, in addition to working with React daily you'll be working with our powerful server-driven UI framework that's at the heart of our business's success:

Powers our entire shopping app and enables rapid iterationsDrives sophisticated personalization at scale, delivering tailored content to each userEmpowers our business teams to operate the store autonomously - dozens of operators and analysts make every day real-time updates without any further tech involvement

In this role you can expect to work with a wide range of technologies within the JavaScript ecosystem, across the full stack! Experience with React Native is not required, we’ll get you up to speed with that on the job.

Tricks of the trade

Growth: Learn to work with cross-functional teams across the entire business, get to work on increasingly challenging tasks and projects, and have ownership over your contributionsContribution: Work on our customer facing Picnic store, implementing new features on a daily basis, contribute to our React Native architecture and server-driven UI frameworkCollaboration: Collaborate with designers and product owners to create specifications for new featuresOur Tech: React, React Native, TypeScript and RxJS, Redux, Styled Components, Jest, Storybook

We’re looking for

2+ years of full-time software development, and have worked with React, React Native, Typescript, or similar JavaScript frameworksExperience in shipping applicationsA willingness and desire to work with a variety of technologiesHands-on experience with (unit) testingEnthusiasm to work with a variety of technologies and a problem-solving mindsetThe confidence to transform business requirements into a technical planThe willingness and flexibility to take feedback and learn from other developers

Please send your CV in English for complete consideration.

Picnic Perks

✍🏼Every expert was once a beginner!

You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly language courses.

💡Make a difference

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾Teamwork makes the dream work

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

🍎You are what you eat

You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

🚴🏽Stay healthy

Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials.

There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga, to climbing!

🔋Attractive package

We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self, as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries

🌍Benefits for expats

It can be daunting starting a new job AND moving to a new country. That’s why we offer lots of support for our many expat colleagues, if you want to find our relocation benefits, see here.

A bit about us

When you join Picnic, you’re joining the shopping revolution, delivering groceries to millions of people across Europe, and we’re growing fast. Think super fresh products and personal service, but in a modern, sustainable way. The tech team at Picnic is at the core of Picnic. From deep learning models to forecast orders to delivery algorithms to warehouse logistics: we’ve built it all from the ground up. You’ll thrive here if you’re a problem solver with a pro-active mindset who’s not afraid to be challenged daily.