Description
Job DescriptionAn 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".
We are now leveraging much of that initial infrastructure to create a fully mobile version of the application with a tight focus on features and speed.
You will be doing hardcore front end development tightly integrated with the rest of the team (front end, back end, IxD and designers and QA), working closely with our architect and moving quickly to complete work under tight deadlines. We're looking for people who love automated testing, good build systems, pull requests and the like but don't let that stand in the way of their amazing velocity.
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.
Note: this is a CONTRACT POSITION! Sorry to yell.
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).
Skills & Requirements
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About Bright & Shiny
We are a (completely!) 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 design and build software, then ship it and keep it running.
Being completely distributed, this is a remote position, so we welcome awesome candidates from anywhere. We do have Google hangouts and live in HipChat (and JIRA), so please have a camera and a microphone.
If you're still interested, and are not an agency or a recruiter (sorry, agencies and recruiters!), please respond to this post with a great cover letter outlining your Java awesomeness and why you're interested in branching out. Please include your hourly rate with your amazing cover letter!