Sanctuary Computer: Senior Frontend Developer

We are hiring a contract-based
Senior Frontend Developer for the garden3d creative collective

We are worker owned creative collective, innovating on everything from brands and IRL communities to IoT devices and cross platform apps. We share profit, open source everything, spin out new businesses, and invest in exciting ideas through financial and/or in-kind contributions.

We think of our garden3d as collective for creative people, prioritizing a happy, talented, and diverse studio culture. We work on projects that bring value to our world, and we balance deep care for the work we do with a genuine curiosity about life outside of our jobs.

We’re looking for a Senior Frontend Developer who excels at building pixel-perfect websites using modern frontend frameworks. You’ll collaborate with our team to build elegant, performant, and visually stunning web experiences. Your work will span a diverse range of client projects, from immersive brand websites to complex web applications, all requiring a keen eye for detail and technical excellence.

In this role, you’ll work on a variety of client projects to find cost-effective, high-quality, pragmatic solutions to complex problems. Responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with Technical Lead to meet clients’ development needs
• Building and maintaining high-performance web applications with modern frontend frameworks and tools
• Implementing responsive, accessible, and pixel-perfect user interfaces based on design specifications
• Integrating frontend applications with headless CMS platforms, APIs, and third-party services
• Optimizing application performance, including bundle size, load times, and runtime efficiency
• Architecting scalable component libraries and design systems for consistency across projects
• Writing clear documentation for code maintenance and usage
• Participating in project team meetings, including Sprint Planning, daily standups, and retrospectives
• Participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to teammates and ensuring adherence to best practices

The person we’re looking for is happy, relaxed and easy to get along with. They’re flexible on anything except conceits that will lower their usually outstanding work quality. They work “smart”, by carefully managing their workflow and staggering features that have dependencies intelligently — they prefer deep work but are OK coming up to the surface now and then for top level / strategic conversations.

We believe people with backgrounds or interests in design, art, music, food or fashion tend to have a well rounded sense of design & quality — so a variety of hobbies or side projects is a big nice to have!

Must Have

Competencies:

We’re always pitching for new and exciting technology niches. Some of the areas below are relevant to us!

• 8+ years writing highly performant frontend code, an obsession for 95+ Lighthouse scores
• Expert level experience with Typescript, and one of Next.js, Nuxt, Svelte, Vue
• Extensive experience with headless CMS like Sanity, Contentful, Prismic or more
• Fluency in industry standard PaaS like Vercel, Netlify, Firebase, etc
• Fluency in eCommerce technologies like Shopify (headless & liquid), Stripe, Swell and others
• Experience building accessible, responsive interfaces with attention to performance optimization and SEO best practices
• Strong understanding of modern CSS methodologies (Tailwind, CSS Modules, etc) and animation libraries
• Experience with state management solutions (Redux, Zustand, Pinia) and API integration patterns
• Proficiency with testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright, Cypress) and commitment to writing maintainable, well-documented code
• Experience with design systems and component libraries, working closely with designers to ensure pixel-perfect implementations
• Real-time & performance optimization
  : experience with Web Sockets for live data updates, caching strategies (Redis, CDN-level caching), CDN configuration and optimization (Cloudflare, Fastly), and image optimization techniques including proxies and delivery networks

Nice to Have

Competencies:

We’re always pitching for new and exciting technology niches. Some of the areas below are relevant to us!

• W…