Senior Front-End Web Developer
Luxury Presence is a VC-funded Stanford StartX-accelerated startup, building a premium platform to provide real estate agents with stunning websites, world-class marketing tools and services, and access to an exclusive network. Our product has seen tremendous growth over the past year, and our customers are often found on the Wall Street Journal and Forbes top 100 real estate lists. It's a wildly exciting time as we are still on the ground floor and are now focusing on ramping up our team by hiring some key players, starting with you!
We are looking for a Senior Front-End Web Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the application. You will work with the UI/UX designer and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works. You will also be building templates for client web sites using a variety of web technologies
What you will do:
Develop new user-facing features
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
Extend customizable options for website template offerings
Iterate on our framework for rendering websites and building a common of libraries and templates
Participate in code review and team events (lunch & learn, brainstorms, etc)
Skills And Qualifications:
3+ years of experience in Front-End Web Development
Expert understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
Proficient in server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
Expert understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
Good understanding of in one or more advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS. ReactJS is preferred.
Expert understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image.Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN
Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them
Prefer some experience with Node.js, but not required
Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs
Someone excited to build award winning websites!
Who we are:
Luxury Presence is a website and marketing software provider for luxury real estate agents and companies. The company launched in 2016 and its client list includes some of the world’s most successful realtors and companies who purchase template-based luxury websites, content marketing tools, SEO, lead generation, and online advertising. Luxury Presence currently has 850+ clients, including Jade Mills (#1 Coldwell Banker realtor worldwide) who is also an investor in the company. A preferred vendor of Compass, Luxury Presence was founded by Malte Kramer, a Stanford GSB graduate, and is backed by Silicon Valley’s Switch Ventures and top angel investors.