Frontend Engineer
Dave Partners is leading the search for a Frontend Engineer for a fast-growing NYC startup. The right candidate will build well-crafted interfaces, responsive and elegant web UIs with AJAX and similar technologies, and will pitch in on backend work when it makes sense. We’re looking for candidates who are passionate and willing to step outside of their specific duties to do whatever it takes to create the best experience possible for the company’s users.
What you will be doing:
• Building awesome products using advanced HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Building next generation content management interfaces
• Acting as technical expert for presentation technologies for the engineering team
• Contributing to presentation layer standards and practices for the company’s engineering team
• Helping with coding of backend applications and features when you can
• Working with the engineering team to create modular templates for better site manageability
• Working with designers to prototype visually attractive and highly usable web interfaces
• Working closely with product team, other engineers, and designers
Your background:
• 4+ years developing web application interfaces, preferably at a consumer-facing web site with hundreds of millions of page views and millions of passionate users
• Expert-level experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and associated frameworks (jQuery, prototype, YUI)
• Ability to create rock solid, cross browser CSS based layouts
• Strong working knowledge of web standards
• Familiarity with popular open source CMS and blogging platforms, such as Django and Wordpress
• Familiarity with Python and PHP
• Familiarity with tools like Firebug, YSlow for measuring performance of frontend code
• Experience integrating third-party web service APIs into interfaces
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Lucene/Solr or other enterprise search technologies a plus
• Deep experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript
• Experience building applications and widgets for social networks like Facebook and MySpace
• Experience in an social media environment a plus
• Solid knowledge of technical project management tools and/or bug tracking systems like Trac, Bugzilla, and Jira and source control systems like CVS and Subversion
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative approach to problem-solving
Ideally, you will hold a B.S. or M.S in Computer Science, or have equivalent self-directed study and experience
Dave Partners is a premier executive search firm with over 25 years of combined experience in venture capital & private equity-backed internet, eCommerce and digital media companies.
Interested? email resumes to: success@davepartnersllc.com
Source: Joel On Software