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# Head of Frontend Engineering at Sensorfact

- **Company:** Sensorfact
- **Location:** Utrecht, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sensorfact/fbbc1b10-612b-4b24-9b7d-448668060924

## Job description

Ready to scale your career in a high-growth scale up where your results drive real world change?

We’re Sensorfact, Europe’s #1 smart monitoring platform for the industry, on a mission to make industry smarter, cleaner, and more efficient. Every day, our technology helps thousands of manufacturers cut energy waste, reduce costs, and lower carbon emissions through intelligent data insights and automation. Today, we’ve joined forces with ABB, a global leader in electrification and automation. This partnership has propelled us onto the world stage, enabling us to expand rapidly and help more businesses optimize their energy efficiency, cut costs, and make a positive impact on the planet.

Apply today and help shape a smarter and more sustainable industry.

## What you will do

As Head of Frontend Engineering, you will make an important contribution to our company’s mission. Our frontend sits at the intersection between a modern stack of backend and data processing technologies and our customers’ need for an intuitive way to quickly discover cost-saving insights and mission critical performance data. Our frontend engineers bring to life the product needs of our customers in a design that’s appealing and understandable. In your role you will empower a team of seven talented Frontend Engineers, working across different value streams (e.g. Energy or Maintenance), which are multidisciplinary product teams that deliver end-to-end value to our customers. You will be the glue that holds the team together, contributing to a professional but relaxed workflow and steering processes towards standardization and efficiency where appropriate. You will also shape the vision for frontend engineering at Sensorfact, grounded in the needs of your team and the products they build. You will enable others to do their best work and develop themselves in line with their personal goals. We believe in leading by example, so you are encouraged to contribute hands-on at times to keep in touch with your team’s developer experience. Sensorfact is a dynamic workplace: change is a constant. The way we are organized is a snapshot of today’s needs. Your job description might evolve in time to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Flexibility and pragmatism are a must. Knowing what to focus on is the key to success.

## Your responsibilities

- Inspire, mentor, and manage a team of seven Frontend Engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, transparency and above all psychological safety.
- Provide technical guidance and career development opportunities to your team members.
- Contribute hands-on in ways complementary to your role, such as by improving architecture and tooling or technical leadership of a product team.
- Work closely with Product Managers of the different value streams to facilitate timely delivery of new features and identify staffing needs.
- Collaborate with fellow Engineering Managers and the VP of Technology to advance strategic projects that cross domains, such as authentication and authorization, domain driven design, and operational excellence.
- Establish best practices in frontend engineering and software development, emphasizing proper scalability, code quality, testing, security and continuous integration.
- Drive hiring and onboarding processes to grow the team with top talent when needed.

The key technologies you will be working with Our day-to-day frontend stack is strongly anchored to TypeScript, React, Vite and GraphQL. We explore new technologies when valuable, so an up to date view of the frontend technology landscape is a must. In addition, we expect an engineering leader to be comfortable with a holistic view of our services by having familiarity with an AWS stack and a microservice architecture and to be able to actively contribute to cross-domain discussions and technical initiatives.

## How we do it

You will join the Engineering department, alongside the Backend, Data Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, IoT and DevOps disciplines. Our cross-functional teams work in a hybrid Agile fashion adapted to Sensorfact’s needs, including scrum with 2-week sprints, sprint planning and retrospective sessions. The course of our products is determined by quarterly goals, set collaboratively by PMs together with the product teams themselves. We are very flexible about working from home, but we enjoy meeting each other in the office regularly. As Head of Frontend Engineering, you will not join one of the product teams on a permanent basis, but you are expected to join teams from time to time to lead strategic projects or coach teams on their process. The frontend discipline has regular syncs and we have a monthly tech day to align across product teams and work together on tech initiatives.

## What you bring

- Proven experience (7+ years) in frontend or full-stack software engineering, including at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
- Strong technical background, including TypeScript and modern frontend technologies (e.g. React, Vite, Node, Material UI).
- Experience guiding teams in designing scalable frontend architectures and development workflows, ideally including near real-time data.
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and of how frontend applications fit into a distributed, service-oriented architecture.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills. Comfortable working in a diverse, multi-cultural environment.
- Excellent communication skills in English (C2).
- Experience in a B2B or B2C product focused on data visualization is a plus.

Visit our website and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sensorfact/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/sensorfact_/), and [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.nl/Overzicht/Werken-bij-Sensorfact-EI_IE4191438.11,21.htm?countryRedirect=true) to stay updated on our journey.

## About Sensorfact

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sensorfact provides a smart IoT platform for industrial SMEs to monitor energy consumption, machine condition, and overall equipment effectiveness, helping them identify and eliminate waste.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by ABB in January 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Utrecht, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Pieter Broekema

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Industrial IoT, Energy Management, Predictive Maintenance
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) globally
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To reduce the human environmental footprint by eliminating all waste in the industry. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **Smart IoT Platform (SaaS + Hardware)**: A combined hardware and software solution that is easy to install and use. It includes sensors for monitoring energy consumption (electricity, gas, compressed air, water), machine condition, temperature, and humidity. The platform provides real-time data and analytics to help manufacturers identify inefficiencies and savings opportunities.
- **Energy Consultancy**: In addition to the platform, Sensorfact offers customized advice from energy consultants to help customers interpret data and implement changes in their plants. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/about-us/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. Acquired by ABB in January 2025; the purchase price was not disclosed. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sensorfact)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: $59.76M prior to acquisition. Key customer milestone: 4,000+ customers in 80+ countries. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/about-us/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors included Blume Equity (lead investor in Series B), FORWARD.one, SET Venture, Korys, and others. Acquired by ABB. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sensorfact)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid customer growth to 4,000+ across 80+ countries; identified 420+ GWh of energy savings; team of 300+ employees with 50+ nationalities; acquisition by global industrial giant ABB in 2025 signals strong technology validation and future growth potential. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/about-us/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ease of Use**: The solution is designed for simple self-installation, avoiding costly downtime for manufacturers, which is a key differentiator for SMEs.
- **End-to-End Solution**: Combines affordable hardware, a powerful IoT analytics platform, and expert human consultancy to drive measurable results.
- **Proven Impact**: A track record of identifying over 420 GWh of energy savings, providing a clear ROI for customers.
- **Strong Market Position**: As one of the fastest-growing scale-ups in the Netherlands, they have established a significant footprint in the industrial energy management space before being acquired by ABB. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/careers/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Post-Acquisition Growth**: Under ABB, the focus is on expanding the digital energy management offering globally, leveraging ABB's vast industrial network and resources. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/about-us/)
- **Continued Innovation**: Developing products that make smart monitoring even simpler and more accessible for industrial SMEs.
- **Global Expansion**: Scaling the customer base and operational footprint beyond the existing offices in the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are motivated by the company's core mission to eliminate industrial waste and create a more sustainable world. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/careers/)
- **Strong Culture & Happiness Focus**: Employee happiness is a key strategic objective, measured quarterly with dedicated initiatives for improvement. The company culture emphasizes freedom, flexibility, and ownership without micromanagement. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/careers/)
- **Fast-Growing & International**: A scale-up environment with 300+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities, offering dynamic career growth opportunities. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/about-us/)
- **Hybrid Work & Perks**: Offers remote work flexibility (including up to two months abroad per year), a home office budget, pension, laptop, phone allowance, travel cost reimbursement, and training opportunities. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/careers/)
- **Offices**: Located in Utrecht (HQ) and Amsterdam (Netherlands), Barcelona (Spain), and Berlin (Germany). [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/careers/)

## Sources
1. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/careers/)
2. [sensorfact.eu](https://www.sensorfact.eu/about-us/)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sensorfact)
4. [nl.linkedin.com](https://nl.linkedin.com/company/sensorfact)
5. [sensorfact.nl](https://www.sensorfact.nl/)

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