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Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript, React) (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

What to Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation, and efficiency.

Gigafactory Berlin forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

We are currently looking for highly motivated developers to join the Factory Software Engineering team.

Our engineers are hands-on and encouraged to own their own projects, contribute to innovative ideas, and make an impact on the way our company operates. The mission of our team is to streamline factory operations by building world-class scalable software systems, decrease business costs, and solve engineering challenges from both development and support perspective.

What You’ll Do

Own the frontend architecture of complex, enterprise-scale web applications — make decisions on component design, state management, and data-fetching patterns
Build polished, performant, and accessible user interfaces for manufacturing execution software
Collaborate closely with backend engineers and product teams during requirements gathering, technical specification, and system design
Contribute to backend services and APIs (primarily in Golang) to deliver end-to-end features when needed
Champion frontend best practices: code reviews, testing strategies, performance budgets, and design-system adoption
Build and maintain shared tooling, test automation, and developer documentation
Be flexible, responsive, and adaptive to ever-changing business requirements

What You’ll Bring

Strong understanding of software development fundamentals including software design, component architecture, state management, and code maintainability
At least 4 years of hands-on experience building modern web applications with TypeScript and React (or Angular)
Deep knowledge of frontend fundamentals: HTML, CSS, responsive design, accessibility, and browser performance optimization
Experience with frontend tooling and ecosystems: bundlers (Vite, Webpack), testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright, Cypress), and CI/CD pipelines
Solid experience with RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL — comfortable designing and consuming API contracts
Working knowledge of backend development, preferably with Golang
Familiarity with SQL and relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Full professional proficiency in English; German is a plus
Experience with Kubernetes or containerized deployments is a plus
Nice to Have
Experience with design systems or component libraries (e.g., Storybook, Material UI, Tailwind CSS)
Understanding of observability and monitoring on the frontend (error tracking, performance metrics)

What we offer

You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you’ll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla’s compensation package includes a competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonuses. Typical benefits that we provide are 30 vacation days, an occupational pension, employee life and disability insurances, free EV charging, product discounts and various transportation benefits.

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran status and disability status, protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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