React Platform Developer

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities, including metals, to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business, trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $13+billion invested in long-term assets.

Vitol's customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies. and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from some 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2024 were over $330bn.

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As Vitol's developer base continues to grow, we are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our global development community team. This role will join our existing Python community team, expanding its focus to the front-end world, specifically React.

The role aims to combine and centralize our knowledge and standards while building a strong bridge with our development, DevOps, and design teams.

We are looking for a candidate who brings both a breadth and depth of experience, from a theoretical and practical perspective; but equally someone who can and wants to continue learning.  

Within the small team, everyone is expected to organise, prioritise and execute their own tasks; with a strong focus on maximising the business value from their actions. This means the individual will need to be comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously, managing competing priorities and stakeholder requirements.

The successful candidate will join a team of experienced, collaborative practitioners, who are actively solving similar challenges within the company Python space.

Together we will be pushing the boundaries around the 'art of the possible'. 

Core Responsibilities include:

• Component Library: Own the lifecycle around internal responsive React components while producing stable, well-documented API's for our developers.
  
  Translate design tokens from Figma into consumable artifacts (e.g., CSS variables) and keep them in sync. Help us navigate the future of tool integrations such as Figma & MCP.
• Dev Enablement: Work closely with development teams to understand their requirements and assist in developing and improving front-end solutions. Maintain our knowledge base and effectively communicate standards.
• Shared Library Development: Help shape and develop our shared library landscape
• Testing: Set up robust testing patterns and help shape code quality gates & surrounding tooling
• Innovative Guidance: Offer innovative solutions and technical advice to enhance existing processes and find new opportunities for improvement
• Platform Expertise: Become a knowledgeable resource on Vitol's MIS platforms, helping developers integrate and use our tooling effectively

Essential Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional frontend experience with exposure having built or maintained production component library / design systems
• Expert knowledge of React 18+ and TypeScript 5+ with strict type safety and public API design discipline.
• Deep understanding of theming, working with tailwind and using design token pipelines
• Familiarity with testing libraries and visual regression testing
• Ability to logically evolve an architecture from prototype to product, considering technical debt and delivery risk
• Experience with enterprise software development lifecycle and tooling including continuous integration and delivery concepts/technologies

Desired Experience

• Experience working within a platform team, serving multiple product teams
• Familiarity with security and compliance scanning, working with SBOM's
• Hands on experience with observability platforms such as DataDog or OpenTelemetry
• Hands on experience supporting Storybook
• Experience with modern authentication practices, specifically Microsoft EntraID and OIDC

Personal Characteristics

• A self-motivated individual who thrives on seeing the results of their work make an impact in the business
• Effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing; Able to translate loose designs into documentation / process / operating model
• Proven ability to be flexible, work hard, and a sense for the art of the possible
• Team player, with an open non-political style and a prominent level of integrity
• Ability and desire to learn and a collaborative approach to problem solving
• Desire to be a thought-partner in a fast-growing team, and make an impact at a business that sits at the heart of the world's energy flows
• An interest in learning about the commodities space

What we offer

• Global Exposure: The chance to work in a dynamic, international environment with colleagues and businesses spanning to all corners of the world.
• Energy Commodities Trading Industry: Opportunity to work within one of the most interesting, rapidly changing and globally impacting industries
• Fast Paced Creative Work Environment: Access to working with a wide range of technologies and tools that empower you to be creative and excel in your role
• Impactful Work: The opportunity to contribute to incredibly meaningful projects that drive the energy industry forward and make a global impact across our lines of business and our operations.
• Innovation: The opportunity to work and drive change at the cutting edge of the energy commodity trading industry's technological landscape
• Corporate Social Responsibility: Ability to engage in a variety of charitable initiatives and programs that give back to the community and promote sustainability
• Travel: Opportunity to travel to a wide variety of offices and sites across all corners of the world where our business development teams operate
• Python and React Communities: Access to our global and continuously growing Python Community (+250 colleagues) and React Community (+50 colleagues) that provides training, and ongoing discussions around the changes in the landscape of these frameworks and a creative space to produce suggestions and ideas to test and/or form new solutions that further drive the success of the business
• Office based role (5 days)