Description
We are a distributed design/build/operate agency with broad and deep experience: frog design, innovative iPad apps pre-loaded in the Apple retail store, stealth mode health care startups, numerous scaled web applications, and so on. We have a strong operational focus with an eye towards organizational efficiency.
An innovative startup backed by high profile ex-Disney employees and Ivy League CS professors is working with us to build out phase two of a groundbreaking HTML5/CSS3/Javascript single page "experience".
In phase one, we worked closely with the client to bring their original vision to life, creating a stunning, HTML5/CSS3/backbone.js based, iPad-centric application. The back end is powered by fully buzzword compliant technology (node.js, AWS, etc.) and we've spent a lot of time creating a state-of-the-art (whatever "art" is in back-end engineering), highly fault tolerant, superawesome auto-scaling system. It slices bread too.
You'll be coming up to speed on what we've done to date, shaking your head at our awesomeness, but not averting your eyes when you unconver the inevitable wart or two (or twenty). We need someone who will be able to dive into the code, understand how past deities constructed our little universe, then move the project into the next phase, helping other developers along in the journey.
As developers ourselves, we're committed to doing the job right, which means providing great tools and development infrastructure and giving you all the rope you need to do you job without checking in every ten minutes (i.e. lots of rope, but not enough to hang yourself). We're fans of QA and automated testing; these are baked into the project from the get-go.
This is what we would like to see from you: something freaking amazing. This is not a normal web experience, so please bring something interesting to the table we can talk to you about. Mobile experience would be great, but not required. But great, nonetheless.
The obligatory bulleted list:
- Demonstrated experience in making people go 'wow'.
- Mucho Javascript experience
- Java/PHP experience (since those things tend to go together; that's irony BTW which often is hard to convey in these posts)
- Daily sit-downs, possible travel to San Francisco/Seattle/NYC area(s) on our dime.
Footnote:
OK, deity? Yeah probably a little much, and if you really think you're a deity, you should probably head on over to the Google job board or check your meds. Originally we were thinking "architect", but architect doesn't really capture what we're looking for. Let's say "deity without the ego" and call it a day. If you've got deity-level Javascript chops, give us a jingle (or whatever the deity equivalent of jingle might be).
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