Description
Your colleagues may deride HTML/CSS & go out of their way to avoid sullying their hands with it, but not you. You realize it's one of the most expressive, versatile, freeing UI description formats to ever come around. And it's deployed everywhere. Plus - with a dash of brains, a few sane conventions, and good tooling - it's really not that bad all.On the other hand, it really is that bad. There are a thousand things wrong with the standards, not to mention the absurd number of browser environment quirks. Annoyances which - tolerable individually - always hunt in packs. An axis of idiocy, drawn together by the singular goal of seeing your beloved computer ragehurled off the nearest cliff.
But that's OK, because you know at the end of the day HTML/CSS are just tools; love them or hate them. What you really do is breathe life into User Interfaces that millions of people use every day. You get the details right. You make computing enjoyable, an experience which is too often the opposite.
We have a ton of interesting work to do, and we're looking for someone to take full ownership of the front-front end of our application stack. If you care about building outstanding user interfaces and have mastered HTML/CSS & modern front-end tooling, that someone might be you.
You'll be hard-pressed to find a team that cares more about making great products, or an environment more amicable to this kind of work. Come focus on perfecting your craft in a place where the CEO cares as much about it as you do.
Applications:
The #1 thing we care about — almost to the exclusion of everything else — is work we can look at. Preferably lots of it, and preferably the source behind it (assuming you're using preprocessing tools, which you surely are).
We don't really care where you went to school, job title buzzwords, or any of that. This is a position where a portfolio speaks louder than any credentials.
(Note: this is not a design position. We're evaluating the quality of the implementation, though of course it's impossible to entirely separate the two - like writing/acting).
Having said that, there's much more to a project than just the final output, so we'd like to hear about the kinds of environments you've worked in, the kinds of projects you've worked on, what your role was, what went right/wrong, and some of what you've learned. We're looking for real experience.
Remote is absolutely OK, though we do have some bias towards local candidates. (Boulder/Denver area)
Pay/Perks:
If you fit the bill, we'll make it worth your time by offering an extremely competitive salary, great perks, and outstanding work environment.
Some of our bullet-point perks include: