Front End UI Developer – Selz

Front End / UI Developer 
(Work Remotely in Australia)

Selz

Job Description:

Selz is the ecommerce platform for growing businesses. We are used and loved by thousands of businesses and entrepreneurs all over the world to build and grow their online sales.

Selz is a fully remote and distributed company, and everyone on our team works flexi-time and flexi-location. We are dedicated to a modern, productive and transparent work culture. Our main operations are in Sydney, Portland and Manila. Our team comprises of world-class talent in the fields of engineering, finance, marketing and customer service.

For this role, we would like you to be somewhere near-ish to Sydney, Australia, so you can come to meet-ups and socials with your awesome colleagues in our engineering team.

Job Responsibilities:

We are looking for a UI Developer to join our design and development team. You will be responsible for the development of exciting new features for the Selz platform.

Job Requirements:

• 3-5 years working as a front-end / UI engineer
• A solid understanding of modern accessible and semantic HTML, CSS, LESS (or SASS) and JavaScript
• Experience writing React and ES6/7 JavaScript
• Experience with Styled Components and Emotion CSS-in-JS libraries
• Experience with jQuery
• Experience with Gulp and Webpack
• A solid understanding of using Git and GitHub
• Proven ability to design and implement designs with an attention to detail
• Extensive experience with CSS, especially in the context of designing and building responsive application UIs
• Familiarity with building accessible UIs
• A good understanding of client-side performance tuning, security and optimization (caching, CDNs, request management, cookies, HTTP2, etc.)
• A proven preference for pragmatism over dogma (you should be able to argue for or against any tech or design decision in a cogent and objective way)
• Proactively identify new and emerging trends and suggest ways how we can use them
• Self-motivated and able to work independently or in a team
• Native English speaker or very good functional English

It would be nice for you to have:

• Exposure to Preact
• Exposure to the Shopify’s Liquid syntax
• Exposure to C# .NET MVC and Visual Studio
• Exposure to Node.js
• Exposure to NoSQL databases like Mongo
• Knowledge of using AWS services – particularly S3 and Cloudfront
• Knowledge of HTTP; requests, responses, headers and caching

You’ll fit in if…

• You want to be part of a team that cares about transparency, no BS, doing great work and having fun whilst you are doing it
• You want to be part of a modern, global, rapidly expanding company that is doing something exciting
• You’re organized and a good manager of time
• You think and act creatively to solve problems
• You are a good communicator and collaborator (essential as this a remote role)
• You take things very personally and are willing to go the extra mile

How To Apply:

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If you would like to be considered for this role please send us:

• A cover letter describing why you think you fit this role
• A resume
• Links to some code you’re proud of – GitHub, CodePen, CodeSandbox, etc

Candidates must hold an Australian citizenship, permanent residency or a visa with the right to work in Australia.