Frontend Engineer

Description:

Distilled combines Irish owned Distilled Media Group and Adevinta from Barcelona. Together we command No. 1 positions in real estate, motors and general buy and sell with our hugely popular online marketplaces Daft.ie, DoneDeal.ie and Adverts.ie.

What’s the opportunity?

We are seeking to recruit a Frontend Engineer, to work on the Daft web application initially, who is up-to-date with modern frontend technologies, has a passion for building intuitive web experiences and will thrive in a high performance, fast paced, challenging and fun environment.

This is more than a technical role, you will be contributing to the overall product development effort. Your experience will inform our engineering process and decisions when building new features.

You’ll be part of one of our multi-functional product delivery teams and will work closely with designers, product owners, quality engineers, and multi-disciplined developers.

What will I be doing

Frontend Engineers are an essential part of the Distilled Product Delivery Teams. Working closely with the design team, we implement responsive user interfaces, using modern libraries and frameworks, such as React, Typescript and Sass.

As a Frontend Engineer at Distilled you will:

• Build and maintain features for the Distilled platforms and related products
• Build efficient and reusable frontend systems for the Distilled platform
• Enjoy building web interfaces that have intuitive usability
• Always strive to ensure our codebase is clean, scalable and secure
• Be an advocate for coding standards within the team
• Keep abreast of new technologies and techniques in frontend development

What skills do I need?

• 4+ years' experience in a similar frontend development role
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript
• Professional Experience with React, with ES6 / Typescript
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience developing fully responsive web pages using mobile first techniques
• Eager to learn new skills and share their own knowledge
• To be comfortable working on your own initiative and handling your time effectively
• Comfortable working and collaborating with team members