(20 hrs per week preferred · up to 40 hrs possible · 0-100% remote · flexible hours)
Hi there,
At Filen, we’re steadily expanding to keep up with our product’s growth. After welcoming a new developer for our mobile app, our next step is to strengthen the web platform.
We’re now looking for a Frontend Developer (React + Next.js) to join the team.
About Filen
If you’ve come across this post outside our website or social channels:
Filen is a privacy-focused cloud storage platform that lets people securely store, sync, and share their files end-to-end encrypted.
For more information about us and our product, visit filen.io or read our info brochure.
What you’ll do
- Develop and maintain the web app’s interface using React and Next.js
- Improve and optimize our homepage for performance, design and SEO
- Refactor and modernize components to improve speed, usability and accessibility
- Build custom landing pages for events, sales, and more
- Collaborate closely with a small, agile product team
- Take features from idea to production and help shape the product as it grows
What we’re looking for
Required skills
- Solid experience with React, including hooks and modern component patterns
- Hands-on experience with Next.js for server-side rendering and routing
- Strong knowledge of TypeScript
- Understanding of responsive design and accessible web development
Nice to have
- Familiarity with React Query (@tanstack/react-query) for working with our existing API hooks and understanding how queries, mutations, and caching behave.
- Basic understanding of Zustand – enough to use and update our existing global state stores (you don’t need to be an expert or set up new stores from scratch)
- Familiarity with Electron for cross-platform desktop apps
- Knowledge of performance optimization, accessibility best practices, and testing tools such as Jest or Cypress
- Any backend or DevOps experience is a plus but not required
We don’t care about degrees or certificates. We care about what you can build. If you have GitHub projects, a portfolio or side projects you’re proud of, we’d love to see them.
What we offer
- Hourly rate: €18 – €27/h depending on experience and skills.
Working students typically start €18–22/h; more experienced candidates €23–27/h, with higher rates for additional relevant expertise - Employee status, no subcontractors or the like
- About 20 hours per week preferred, which makes this role ideal for part-time or working-student positions
- Option to go up to 40 hours per week if your skills cover a broader range
- Fully remote within the EU, or you can join us in our office in Germany (Recklinghausen, NRW)
- Flexible working hours, we focus on results, not clock-in times
- A growing privacy-tech scale-up with lots of freedom and responsibility
- Supportive, straightforward team culture with minimal bureaucracy
- The chance to work on a real product that reaches thousands of users
- Free snacks and drinks if you drop by the office
How to apply
Use our application form
If you have any questions, just reach out to our support or on social media. We’re happy to chat and look forward to hearing from you.
— The Filen Team
