#typescript

#typescript

We are currently looking for a skilled & passionate Senior Frontend Engineer (m/f/d) to join the Storefront Unit onsite in Hamburg or Berlin. Our Storefront Core Team, is responsible for maintaining and developing the Storefront Core SDK and the accompanying Application Boilerplate. These two building blocks are the foundation of any Web Shop built with the Scayle Engine and are used by internal teams and external agencies. Jump to the next career step and unlock the future potential of frontend

Our Customer is a Swedish AdTech company that is transforming how publishers and advertisers interact. They provide state-of-the-art self-serve advertising platforms that enable seamless, direct transactions between advertisers and some of the world's largest publishers. Their mission is to make advertising more accessible, automated, and efficient through innovative technology. Together, we serve globally recognized clients such as TripAdvisor, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Opera, Dow Jones, etc.

Zod has emerged as one of the most powerful TypeScript-first schema validation libraries, offering a declarative way to define, validate, and transform data. Whether you're working with frontend forms, backend services, or AI-driven applications, Zod provides a versatile solution for ensuring data integrity. When coupled with tools for distributed development like Bit, Zod becomes an even more powerful tool that enables cross-repo validation and cross-team standardization.

Zod v4 introduces a series of changes across three key areas: performance, API design, and tooling support. Benchmarks published by the maintainers show 14x faster string parsing, 7x faster array parsing, and 6.5x faster object parsing compared to Zod 3. These improvements are paired with reductions in TypeScript type instantiation, helping projects compile faster in large codebases. Another headline feature in this release is the introduction of @zod/mini, a lightweight distribution weighing just ~1.9 KB gzipped, designed for tree-shakable validation in modern frontend applications.

Having a well-integrated type system that makes sense and gives you optimization potential for memory layouts is generally a good idea.

The core value proposition of TypeScript is an excellent developer experience. As your codebase grows, [...] in many cases TypeScript has not been able to scale up to the very largest codebases.

In JavaScript, functions are considered first-class citizens, allowing them to be passed as parameters, returned from other functions, and assigned to variables.

The TypeScript team’s decision to rewrite the compiler in Go introduces performance improvements, but raises concerns about ecosystem disruption and long-term maintainability.

Zod 4 introduces deep internal optimizations that make parsing up to 3x faster and more memory-efficient, especially for complex, nested schemas.

According to their docs, Bun is "an all-in-one JavaScript runtime & toolkit designed for speed, complete with a bundler, test runner, and Node.js-compatible package manager".

TypeScript’s design enforces type safety from the start of the ETL process, reducing runtime errors from unexpected data types.

React Native apps can meet stringent performance requirements, but success depends on applying the right patterns effectively, eliminating performance bottlenecks.