Senior Front End Developer - Ireland

Overstock Ireland is based in the beautiful Co. Sligo and is the European software development centre for Overstock.com, a technology driven online retailer and through it’s subsidiary Medici Ventures a blockchain accelerator. We strive to offer a diverse and challenging career path using the latest technologies and platforms coupled with a great life/work balance in a cost effective location on the Wild Atlantic Way.

Our dynamic and innovative tZero team is growing and we’re looking to add a highly motivated Senior React Developer. The tZero team is revolutionising capital markets by enabling tokenization and trade of assets through next generation blockchain technology. tZero is leading the pack with its cutting-edge technical expertise, track record of innovation and our focus on regulatory compliance. Our Senior React Developer will be play a key role in enhancing and optimising the onboarding platform for new investors, and also the trading platform that enables the trading of both digital securities and crypto currencies.

You’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of building and running large-scale, fault tolerant, and secure distributed microservice based systems.

What You Will Do

• As Senior React Developer, assist and educate other Front End Developers on best practices of front end development at Overstock and in general. This may include the responsibility to coordinate and manage the front end development work that is completed by you and your fellow Front End Developers on your team.

• Oversee site optimization for SEO when applicable, cleaner and concise code, and code weight.

• Create reusable HTML, CSS and JS modules

• Build out templates using React for new features and layouts.

• Able to build custom JavaScript components/modules that can be reused by other developers.

What You Should Have

• 5+ years of professional website coding experience

• Proven ability to work in an agile work environment and play a Senior role within the agile development process.

• Excellent JavaScript skills are a must.​

• Must have a passion for, and promote clean semantic markup, with an attention to detail.

• Excellent knowledge of UX design principles, User Centred Design and Accessibility

• Excellent CSS skills with a full understanding of specificity and cascade.

• Excellent knowledge of browser quirks and creating web apps that are consistent across all major browsers

• Excellent optimizing front end code for performance/speed

• Strong ability to develop responsive web designs

• Must be passionate about web standards

• LESS, SAAS and css-in-js

• HTML5

• JavaScript/ES7+

• NodeJS

• Modern JavaScript frameworks ReactJS / Angular

• State containers for JavaScript Apps such as Redux

What we hope you have

• Experience with google analytics

• Experience with New Relic and Stackdriver

Education

• ​B.S./B.A. Computer Science or related field preferred

What We Value: 

• Life/Work Balance
• Pride in Production
• Trust
• Challenge yourself, inspire others
• Success through diversity

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion and membership of the Traveller community, (protected characteristics under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011).