Frontend Developer (React/Typescript)

Role Summary

The WES UI Team , part of the R&D department, is responsible for delivering and maintaining software tools used across all company departments and by customers.

The team focuses primarily on developing and maintaining frontend applications using React and TypeScript , ensuring high-quality, user-friendly, and scalable solutions.

While the main expertise lies in frontend development, some applications also include backend components built with C# and .NET . Two applications involve backend development, while others are primarily frontend-focused and used both internally and by customers.

Advantages of working in the WES UI Team

Frontend Focus: Strengthen your expertise in React and TypeScript by building production-grade applications used across the company.

Occasional Full-Stack Exposure: Gain experience with C# and .NET backends in selected projects, broadening your technical perspective.

Diverse User Interaction: Collaborate with multiple departments and user types, ensuring your work has a direct, company-wide impact.

Innovation Opportunities: Contribute ideas and improvements in an environment that encourages creativity and continuous learning.

Collaborative Team Culture: Work alongside skilled, motivated, and supportive colleagues who share a passion for delivering quality software.

By joining the WES UI Team, you will have the opportunity to work on impactful projects, shape the company’s software infrastructure, and develop cutting-edge solutions in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Tool Development: Designing and developing modern web-based software solutions to support various company functions. The main focus lies on building and maintaining React and TypeScript frontends, ensuring performant, scalable, and user-friendly applications.

Some tools also include backend components built with C# and .NET, handled within the team when necessary.

Examples of developed tools include

Warehouse Configurator: Enables the creation and visualization of warehouse layouts enriched with metadata, making them compatible with the traffic controller.

Handling Unit Configurator: A calculation tool that determines the optimal positions of handling units within the warehouse.

WES-UI: A key application used both internally and by customers to monitor and interact with warehouse operations. (And many more tools tailored to the company's needs.)

Full Software Lifecycle: Responsible for the software development process from A to Z, including analysis, coding, testing, debugging, and delivering training for end users.

Optimizing and Enhancing: Focus on refactoring, improving code quality and efficiency, and maintaining a highly performant software architecture.

Cross-Department Collaboration: Collaborate with various departments to gather requirements, ensure the software aligns with business needs, and provide ongoing support to enhance operational efficiency.

Requirements

Medior: 4–5 years of experience in software development, preferably in an industrial or technical environment.

• Required knowledge and experience in one or more of the following technologies:
• React and TypeScript (core focus)
• Modern frontend practices such as component-based architecture, state management, and responsive design
• Frontend tooling such as Vite, Webpack, or similar build tools
• Version control and CI/CD using Git and Azure DevOps
• Unit testing and integration testing with frameworks such as Jest or React Testing Library
• Clean code principles and software maintainability

Additional experience (nice to have)

• Basic understanding of .NET Core and C# for integration with backend services
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and JSON-based data exchange
• Fluent in Dutch and English.

Benefits

• A place in an enthusiastic, young organisation with the necessary ambitions
• The necessary freedom and opportunity to take initiative.
• An intensive training by experienced people.
• An attractive salary in an international environment with many benefits:
• Company car with fuel card/charging pass
• Group & health insurance
• Meal vouchers (8€)
• Net allowances
• CAO90 Bonus
• Laptop
• iPhone + subscription
• 20 days of vacation plus 12 extra days for working a full year on 40h-workweek instead of 38h (32 leave days in total)
• Satellite office in Berchem ( Antwerp )
• Unsolicited representations by third parties (recruitment agencies, headhunters, ...) of CVs via mail and/or telephone for our vacancies are considered as direct applications where no compensation is provided to the third party.
• Any T&Cs from these third parties will not be accepted unless upon signature of the T&Cs by a person in charge of HR.
• Candidates remain registered in the system for 12 months and cannot be proposed again during this period.

About the Company

Innovation, ambitious growth, technology, state-of-the-art robots – that’s Movu Robotics in a nutshell. Due to the in-house design and manufacturing process of our systems, an exciting, hands-on work environment with plenty of challenges and advancement opportunities is guaranteed. Will you help shape the future of intralogistics?