Senior Front-End Web Developer

1stdibs is the world’s largest online luxury marketplace for one-of-a-kind products. It has become the go-to source for the world's leading interior designers and consumers to find antiques, vintage furniture, jewelry, vintage fashion and fine art.

We need your ideas and passion for good, clean code! A great position for a front-end enthusiast who wants to code things The Right Way™. Opportunity to help lead the development and implementation of extensive new user-facing products and features; new shared packages; collaborate with our services team on internal APIs; and help usher in a new web server architecture. Additional coding to optimize existing repositories, as necessary.

• Use your thorough understanding of core client-side technologies -- HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript -- to architect complex user interactions for desktop and mobile browsers using React, Redux, Relay and more...
• Enjoy developing with our state-of-the-art front-end stack which includes Node.js, Express, webpack, Sass and Babel (es2015)
• Create universal JS modules to be used on both the client and the server
• Help lead, direct and mentor more junior team members
• Provide informed estimates on project timelines and resources
• Take part in the decision-making around major architectural choices of the front-end team
• Leverage your experience with PHP or other OOP languages
• Be excited by the opportunities and challenges afforded by responsive and adaptive design
• Cover your code with unit and integration tests written with Jasmine, Mocha, Chai and Sinon.
• Work with our top Product team which includes leaders formerly of Gilt, eBay and Etsy

• At least one big React project under your belt and extensive Node.js experience
• Ideally, you would be familiar with server-side React and be thoroughly knowledgeable of ES6
• Experience developing for high-traffic web sites
• Ability to troubleshoot and explain performance bottlenecks
• Be awesome and make those around you awesome!
• Ability to bring your intellectual curiosity and thoughtful opinions with you every day
• Experience developing consumer-facing websites in a professional production environment is a plus
• An appreciation for art and design is always welcome
• Your participation in the larger Developer Community is strongly supported and encouraged!