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# (Senior) Frontend Engineer at Polarsteps

- **Company:** Polarsteps
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polarsteps/12d7608e-3e2f-4963-9a58-78a2c0a4a89c

## Job description

Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place. We're an Amsterdam-based team of 90+ (and counting) with 25+ nationalities amongst us! A varied bunch of “Citizens of The World” with a wide range of skills and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our travel belts. And we have something important in common (other than our very well-worn passports): We want to change the way people travel. And that's exactly what we're doing, with the travel app to plan, track, and relive trips in a smart and beautiful way. Polarsteps has over 20 million users already, but, for us, this is just the beginning. We have big plans for the future, and so we need even more talented and enthusiastic people to help us on our journey. Want to know more about us? [Here](https://careers.polarsteps.com/) you go.

Your expedition: Frontend Engineering at Polarsteps We’re a small team, doing big things. If you haven't seen our app yet, go ahead and check it out; you'll see that we care (a lot) about providing a seamless, top-quality user experience for every one of our travelers. And it is this that has got us ratings of 4.8 and 4.7 on the app stores (where we’ve been featured multiple times). But it doesn’t stop there: not only did Google create [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYcBqtOwLcg) awesome video about us, but we’ve been mentioned in two of Apple’s WWDC keynote speeches! We’ve got an impressive past, but we’re even more excited for the future, and the impact you can make from day one is huge, with everything you ship affecting more than 23 million users. Even with that in mind, we believe in truly giving our team members the freedom they need to craft to perfection while encouraging a practical mindset to avoid under- or over-engineering mishaps. We are seeing enthusiastic and accelerated growth of the travel industry, and with that comes both opportunities and growing pains. So, if you enjoy creating thoughtful user experiences, obsessing over performance and polish, and solving the challenges that come with building a product used by millions, you're in for a lot of fun with us.

## Your itinerary

What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day. You will:

- Work on all things at the forefront of our beautiful and complex web app, and create new features that will impact millions of users.
- Help our Product team by creating prototypes and sharing your knowledge.
- Build fun internal tools like our [teleporter.](https://www.polarsteps.com/teleporter)
- Take part in daily interactions with product managers, designers, other engineers, and the rest of our team, we believe in a deeply collaborative environment.
- Proactively improve the resiliency, maintainability, and scalability of our platform, addressing technical debt when needed or, even better, preventing it when it makes sense.

The equipment in your backpack What we’re hoping you’ll bring with you. ✅ 5-7+ years of a strong frontend background. We work with React and Typescript and would love it if you are familiar with them, or a similar technology. ✅ A pragmatic approach to solving the problem at hand. You shouldn’t be scared of tackling big challenges in automated testing, optimizing performance or developing new features. ✅ You use AI tools daily to move faster, but never to skip understanding. You can explain, defend and debug every line you ship, whether you wrote it or an AI did. ✅ A history of working on intuitive and beautiful front-end solutions ✅ Experience working in an Agile team environment. ✅ A keen eye on User Experience Bonus points for Tanstack, Playwright, Python, Node.js ✨

1st class extras Some cool things to make the journey extra sweet.

- Salary range: Between EUR 68.000 - 80.000 (medior level) and EUR 84.000 and 99.000 gross per year incl 8% holiday allowance (based on 40 hours/week). Where you land in the range depends on your experience and skills, to be evaluated during the interview process.
- Equity: You'll be able to participate in our Polarsteps SAR Plan.
- A yearly free flight or train to a random location! Give our Teleporter a spin [here](http://www.polarsteps.com/teleporter).
- A shiny new MacBook to work your magic on.
- Hybrid working. Split your time between the office and your home, as you see fit.
- An extensive home office set-up, everything from noise-canceling headphones to a standing desk.
- 30 days of vacation (for adventures or sitting on the couch, it's up to you).
- Two paid Culture Days for days that are important to you, but not recognized by the official Dutch calendar.
- The option to switch up your zoom background by working from another country for up to 8 weeks a year.
- A personal development budget for that curious mind of yours!
- A pension plan to help you save for those around-the-world retirement trips.
- Delicious daily office lunches.
- Awesome monthly parties, as well as team trips away.
- A lively office in downtown Amsterdam, with travel costs reimbursed.
- Free Polarsteps Travel Books to contain all your far-flung adventures.

At Polarsteps, we believe the best products are built by people as diverse as the travelers using our apps! That's why we specifically encourage people underrepresented in the tech industry to apply for a role with us. Because we believe that diversity, be it age, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, or gender identity, makes both the world and the workplace better. Think this is the path for you? Find out more about [how we hire.](https://careers.polarsteps.com/howwehire)

## About Polarsteps

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Polarsteps is a travel app that combines trip planning, real-time tracking, and reliving into a single platform for adventurous travelers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed; bootstrapped origins with subsequent investment likely)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Niek (original founder), Job Harmsen, Koen Droste, Maximiliano Neustadt

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Travel technology (consumer travel app)
- **Target Customers**: B2C – individual travelers looking for a single app to plan, track, and share trips
- **Mission**: “We want to lead a global movement towards more adventurous travel” – inspiring people to explore the world and capture their stories. [polarsteps.com/about](https://www.polarsteps.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Polarsteps App (iOS & Android)**: A mobile app that enables users to plan trips, track journeys via GPS, share their location with friends/family, and later relive the adventure with a beautiful interactive map. Freemium model.
- **Travel Books**: Physical photo books that automatically compile trip highlights, offered as a premium/companion product.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 20+ million users (as of 2025–2026). [polarsteps.com](https://www.polarsteps.com/)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not disclosed in available sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Team size grown to 90+ (from a small founding team). [careers.polarsteps.com](https://careers.polarsteps.com/)
  - 20+ nationalities represented in the workforce
  - Actively hiring for 15+ roles across engineering, product, growth, and operations (June 2026). [careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies](https://careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies)
  - New CEO Clare Jones leading the next growth phase. [careers.polarsteps.com/team](https://careers.polarsteps.com/team)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique Origin Story**: Born on a catamaran crossing the Atlantic – product–market fit discovered organically through solo tracking.
- **All-in-One Experience**: Combines planning, tracking, and reliving in one app, reducing the need for multiple tools.
- **Community & Content**: User-generated journeys feed into a global map of real adventures, creating a network effect.
- **Employee Perk as Moat**: The “Teleporter” – once a year the whole team is flown/trained to a random destination (chosen from past user trips), reinforcing product empathy and company culture.

## Strategic Focus
- Drive user growth by expanding the social and follower features (dedicated Product Manager for Growth – Social & Followers listed).
- Deepen planning capabilities to become the default starting point for trips.
- Scale engineering and data teams to improve personalization and experimentation.
- Maintain a hybrid work model (office in Amsterdam) while enabling up to 8 weeks of remote work abroad per year.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “explorer at heart,” with a flat, collaborative vibe and frequent social events (after-work borrels, boat trips).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – office in downtown Amsterdam (Vijzelgracht 53A); flexibility to work abroad up to 8 weeks/year.
- **Perks**:
  - 30 vacation days + 2 Culture Days per year
  - Teleporter (annual free flight/train to a surprise destination)
  - MacBook, noise-canceling headphones, standing desk
  - Free travel books (your own trips turned into physical books)
- **Team**: ~90 employees across 20+ nationalities; high retention (first hires still with the company). [careers.polarsteps.com/team](https://careers.polarsteps.com/team)

## Sources
1. [polarsteps.com](https://www.polarsteps.com/)
2. [polarsteps.com/about](https://www.polarsteps.com/about)
3. [careers.polarsteps.com](https://careers.polarsteps.com/)
4. [careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies](https://careers.polarsteps.com/vacancies)
5. [careers.polarsteps.com/team](https://careers.polarsteps.com/team)

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