Software Engineer, Frontend
You're joining Waitwhile at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first team members, you'll have a huge impact on the company, culture and product - and you'll get to learn a ton and have fun.
Who we are💙
Here at Waitwhile we're on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped over 150 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Chanel, Costco, Google, Delta Airlines, and thousands more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help.
The role 💼
We’re looking for a talented Frontend Software Engineer to join Waitwhile’s mission of eliminating waiting. You’ll help shape our product by designing and building advanced UIs that balance flexibility and simplicity, creating experiences that delight users and meet the high expectations of global brands.
Joining a small-but-growing team, you’ll collaborate closely with our CTO and other members of Waitwhile to develop our web apps. With user experience at the core of what we do, you’ll play a key role in scaling our frontend platform and ensuring it remains intuitive, powerful, and reliable.
This position is based in Stockholm at our bright offices on Kungsgatan 32. We’re a hybrid company and prefer that you work from the office at least 2 days per week, as we believe the best product gets built together, live.
What you’ll do🚀
- Advanced UI development: building settings UIs, guest journey builders, message template logic, and other complex flows.
- Component libraries and reusable modules: ensuring consistency, scalability, and performance across the product.
- Best-in-class user experience: balancing powerful features with intuitive design to save customers time and delight end users.
- Performance and optimization: driving improvements in responsiveness and frontend scalability for large enterprise use cases.
- Collaboration: working with Product Managers, Designers, and Backend Engineers to conceptualize and ship impactful new features.
- Quality and standards: contributing to engineering best practices, tooling, and processes while assisting our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.
What skills you need 📖
- 3+ years of experience building web applications, especially with Angular.
- Strong skills in Typescript/JavaScript.
- Experience with performance optimization and troubleshooting.
- Contributes to architecture discussions and technical decisions.
- Writes testable, maintainable code and has experience with automated testing.
- Strong communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to different audiences.
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems).
- Fluent in spoken and written Swedish and English.
- You have completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
Bonus skills & attributes 🙌
- You're experienced with NX mono repos or RxJS
- You've worked at a Startup or built a SaaS platform
- General expertise in distributed systems and databases
A great place to work❤️
We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great benefits and perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. Join Waitwhile at this exciting stage and help shape both our future and your own.
Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, what are you waiting for? Apply for this job!
- Department
- Engineering
- Role
- Software Engineer, Frontend
- Locations
- Stockholm
- Remote status
- Hybrid

Stockholm
Grow with us.
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Life balance
We're parents, care-givers and multi-faceted humans that don't want to spend all our time working. We do great work, but also encourage a great work-life balance.
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Autonomy
Your self-starting personality will shine when you have the freedom to shape your work and help guide the product's direction. -
Great benefits
Health benefits, retirement packages and generous time-off policies help keep your overall well-being a priority. -
Professional growth
We want to see you thrive. You will contribute to the larger vision of Waitwhile while growing in your career journey. -
Take time for yourself.
You have a life outside of work, and Waitwhile offers a generous time-off policy for you to enjoy it.
About Waitwhile
Waitwhile is a wait management platform that helps businesses deliver better waiting experiences for their customers through automated, personalized and smartphone-based line experiences.
Waitwhile has improved the wait experience for over 250 million guests and collectively given people back over 100k years they would have otherwise wasted waiting in line. Our customers include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Google, Facebook and thousands of other businesses looking to improve their waiting experiences.
The company was founded in 2017 in San Francisco with the mission to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that humans waste standing in line every year. Waitwhile has secured $12 million in funding from investors including CRV and has offices in the US and Sweden.
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