Frontend Developer (React)

Quick Facts

• Role: Frontend Developer (React)

Description

Join the effort to modernize and further develop Askeladden, a national cultural heritage database and key working tool for cultural heritage administration. You will help build a new React-based client (Askeladden 4.0 beta) while old and new solutions run in parallel, including rebuilding existing functionality and improving the overall user interface. The work focuses on user-friendly, efficient, secure workflows and reducing technical debt.

Role & Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance the service through new features, ongoing improvements, and reduction of technical debt
• Support and guide a relatively inexperienced developer team through frontend expertise and professional growth
• Contribute to best practices, documentation, standards, and routines for development, testing, and deployment
• Identify technical risks, ensure security, and propose mitigation measures
• Serve as a sparring partner for the product owner and the service team

Requirements

• Solid experience with React and the associated ecosystem, including confidence making technical decisions and leading frontend work
• Strong understanding of modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with emphasis on structure, performance, and maintainability
• Experience with component-based frontend architecture and applying best practices for reusable and scalable solutions
• Experience building data-driven interfaces that fetch and present information from APIs
• Experience working in Agile teams and cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Preferably experience from the public sector, ideally cultural heritage administration
• Advantageous: experience working with web-based map data

Benefits

Opportunity to shape a modern, efficient digital service for cultural heritage administration and improve data quality through better user experiences.