Front-End UI Developer

Description

Sawhorse Media is looking for a talented front-end developer to work on Muck Rack. Muck Rack is our software-as-a-service product that connects journalists with PR pros, companies and sources. You’ll be creating important user-facing features, working alongside the design, tech and product management teams.

This is a job that’s ideal for designers who also code, and love crafting HTML, SASS, CSS, user interfaces, and style guides.

ABOUT YOU

You'll be successful if you:

Have a good UI design sense, and are capable of wireframing and building user interfaces in HTML and SASS.

Are a master of CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap, overcoming their constraints while still maintaining and improving our standardized framework for other front-end coders or developers to use.

Are an expert at creating responsive HTML that renders well on both desktop and mobile.
Have JavaScript experience. jQuery at the minimum, but Backbone, Underscore and other frameworks are a plus.

Write front-end code that is well-written, modular, efficient, and easy-to-understand. You take pride in the quality of the code you write.

Have fluency with the terminal and command line, git and Github, and basic Unix commands.

Have several years professional experience successfully shipping consumer or software-as-a-service products.

Enjoy working with and collaborating with visual designers and product managers to create outstanding features.

Are able to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs.

Can build and maintain live style guides.

Have experience working on a Django site. While we’re not expecting you to write backend code, we’d like you to have a familiarity working with Django views and templates and forms, and running Django sites locally on your own computer. If you have the equivalent experience with another framework and are open to learning Django, that could also work.

Can work well with remote developers and team members.

Use a Mac or Linux as your development machine.

ABOUT MUCK RACK
Muck Rack connects journalists with PR pros, companies and sources. Journalists use Muck Rack to build portfolios, track the success of their articles, and connect with colleagues. Companies use Muck Rack to get more press, find the right journalists to pitch their stories to, and receive real time alerts when they're mentioned in the news or social media.

ABOUT US
Sawhorse is a profitable tech startup that bootstrapped its way to success, run by people who know how to get things done. Our products reach a huge audience. We move fast, are constantly improving our products and ship code multiple times a day. Everyone here is passionate about the problems they are solving and collaborate to make that happen.

How to apply?
Send us a message, explaining how you fit the bill for the requirements listed above.
Include links that demonstrate your best work, whether it's a project you created on Github, website you built, software you created, a blog you've written, or something you've made in a completely different medium.