Location: New York, NY
URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/about/jobs
BuzzFeed is seeking an experienced developer who is passionate about creating standards-based, front-end code and is excited about developing innovative products and great user interfaces. This is an great opportunity to make a huge impact as an integral part of our lean dev/product team.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with our designers & developers to implement new features and products in HTML/CSS/Javascript
- Own BuzzFeed?s HTML/CSS/template code and work with our designers to create front-end code guidelines and standards
- Enforce a highlevel of quality control for both code and design implementation
- Innovate and explore new frontend technologies with our team
- Work on prototypes and ?live? mockups of cuttingedge features
- Rapidly prototype new interfaces, userfacing products, and advertiser products
Requirements
- 3+ years of real-world experience building websites with semantic HTML markup and CSS for layout
- Knowledge of and experience with modern Javascript techniques including AJAX
- Thorough knowledge of current website development trends and cutting-edge browser innovations (HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, etc)
- Strong UI design sense and a passion for developing innovative, user-centric interfaces
- Strong typographic sense and experience executing tight designs within web constraints
- Extremely detail-oriented with strong commitment to cross-browser and cross-platform testing, troubleshooting and quality assurance
- Flexibility to get products shipped quickly and then improve them iteratively
- Experience with server-side template languages (server-side coding experience is a plus)
- Experience developing front-end code for mobile platforms
- Familiar with a Mac/UNIX-based development environment and version control systems (Git or SVN)
- Experience with iterative, metrics-driven design and A/B testing
- Excel in a fast-paced, self-driven, small-team startup environment
To apply: To apply, send resume and cover letter (in body of the email) to: devjobs@buzzfeed.com
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