Description
We are a distributed design/build agency with broad and deep experience: frog design, innovative iPad apps pre-loaded in the Apple retail store, numerous scaled web applications, and so on. We are working on an exciting contract with an innovative startup backed by high profile ex-Disney employees and Ivy League CS professors among others and are looking for a really really really really good front end designer (really.) We are aware that these people tend to be going door-to-door for jobs these days and will be appreciative of all applicants. We promise to be supportive when you run into annoying cross browser compatibility issues that cause massive hair and weight loss and will reimburse for the food of your choice during these episodes.
You will have some wicked awesome CSS3, Javascript and HTML5 chops. You eat Chrome for breakfast, go on Safari at lunch and go dancing with Firefox at night. You broke up with IE but still correspond every once in a while. You know Webkit better than your best friend. You are not put off by totally ridiculous job descriptions.
The job is challenging and fun, with a crack job of designers, front and back end developers and operations masters. We’re committed to doing the job right, which means providing great tools and development infrastructure and giving developers all the rope they need to do their job without checking in every ten minutes. We're building a really slick experience that you will be bringing to life. The target platform is the iPad (!) but this is an HTML5/CSS/JS application. The stack is node.js/backbone.js hosted on a state of the art AWS deployment toolset (developed in-house.)
This is what we would like to see: show us something amazing. We are not building a normal web experience so bring something interesting to the table we can talk to you about. Mobile experience would be great, but not required.
The obligatory bulleted list:
- Ability to make pixels whizz around the screen at high frame-rates.
- Knowledge of iPad voodoo for accelerating HTML/CSS3.
- Superduper experienced in Javascript, ideally with substantial knowledge of backbone.js
- Demonstrated experiences in making people go 'wow'.
- Weekly sit-downs, possible travel to San Francisco area on our dime.
Footnote:
Rockstars? Who needs ‘em? They stay up late, take too many drugs and generally behave poorly. Sometimes they die young. We all know the story. Now, jazz stars, well, there isn’t even the concept of a “jazz star”. That’s how cool jazz musicians are. We’re looking for someone with jazz legend level chops and doesn’t need to play really loud in order to be cool. Unless you want to. Your choice.
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