Summary
Nicklas Jensen is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience building user-focused web applications across startups and scale-ups, now bringing his craft to DuckDuckGo from his recent leadership roles at Surfe. He combines hands-on React/JS development with product-minded thinking, having shipped everything from prototypes to large-scale frontends and introduced micro-frontend initiatives at OLX Autos. Comfortable working end-to-end, he has experience touching backend systems when needed and has led engineering teams and hiring processes to improve technical recruitment and developer workflows. Based in Andalusia, he pairs a Scandinavian product sensibility with a pragmatic approach to why features matter for customers and stakeholders. Colleagues rely on him for mentorship, refactors that reduce technical debt, and for building maintainable processes that extend beyond code. He’s continually curious about new tools and methods, often asking the deeper “Why” that turns polished interfaces into meaningful experiences.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
General Certificate of Secondary Education, General Certificate of Secondary Education at VUC Vestegnen
AP Degree, Computer Science (Software Design & Python), AP Degree, Computer Science (Software Design & Python) at Copenhagen Business Academy
English, Danish, Spanish