Intermediate/Good/Great/Experienced/Ambitious Front End Developer

Dear future teammate,

Thank you for considering joining our team.

You spend something like 25% of your entire life at work so one of our goals here is to make this place awesome. Help us do it.

About Overhaul

In a nutshell we build Shopify Plus, Sanity, WordPress, and some static (usually campaign) sites for organizations ranging from small business’ like architecture studios, D2C brands, to government entities. It’s best just to look at our work.

We’re looking for someone who can work with us full time, 40 hours per week. Typically ~9-5 but we do offer flex hours and occasional work from home options. Our vacation policy is tailored for everyone but generally offer 2+ weeks paid vacation, budget for courses, conferences, books etc.

You will have a hand in driving the “dev bus” so to speak, contribute to an amazing team and developing amazing sites.

Note: The following is not an all or nothing list. If you meet many but not all points, please still reach out!

Are you the person we’re looking for?

  • You work best in small teams or independently.
  • High level of self-management and organizational skills.
  • You’re a passionate developer, it’s not just your 9-5. You stay ‘in the know’ about new frameworks, tools or approaches.
  • You can have honest conversations.
  • You’re an engineer, not just a ‘task doer’ – you posses (or desire to) the ability to see beyond the individual task to longer term impact.

Primary requirements

  • Strong fundamentals building responsive websites using HTML, CSS and Javascript
  • Experience with frameworks: React, Next.js, Vue (less lately), and Tailwind
  • Git – managing branches, pull requests, and resolving conflicts
  • PHP (casual is OK)
  • Managing project dependencies with npm and bundling assets with Webpack
  • A working knowledge of performance optimization strategies and their importance (various caching, asset minification, CDNs, etc.)

Secondary requirements

  • Greensock / GSAP
  • Experience with automated deployment tools (Vercel, Amplify, Github Actions)
  • Knowledge of headless CMS systems such as Sanity
  • WordPress – custom theme and plugin development
  • GraphQL
  • Shopify Liquid
  • Builds accessible, standards-compliant websites / A11y
  • Creative thinking, committed to scalability, extensibility and reusability of your code.
  • Experience with cross-browser testing and you’re not the type to slip up on QA

Description

AKA here’s the big list of things this role could include:

  • Produce code for projects that is efficient, performant, and inspires confidence in the team. 
  • Perform code reviews for other developers and collaborating with broader team members.
  • Manages pull requests including optimization of PR templates.
  • Maintain code standards – creating consistency within the code.
  • Drive forward our internal frameworks.
  • Maintaining technical responsibility for the development stages, modification, and testing iterations of a project.
  • Contribute to project debriefs from a development workflow performance perspective. 
  • Estimating dev projects/tasks, breaking them down into smaller pieces of work, organizing tasks into sprints to meet a timeline.
  • Scoping development projects and/or making requirements documents.
  • Validating designs for feasibility and alignment with scope and/or identifying potential challenges and or issues.
  • Ensures effective communication with the rest of the Overhaul team. 
  • Providing professional (technical) advice to stakeholders.

Education

We hire culture over experience over education. 

Compensation

  • Money. How much depends on you and your unique experience. Salary ranges from $70,939 – $90,974 per year.
  • Paid vacation, +/- 2 weeks.
  • Full health and dental benefits.
  • A big emphasis on work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for growth, education, and training.
  • Free Alberta Parks passes for all team members. 

How to Apply

Email [email protected]

With your submission, please include samples of your work — we want to see your stuff, personal projects, big work projects, stuff you’re proud of. Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We hire for people, not necessarily roles.

Only selected candidates will be contacted but we thank all of you in advance.

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