Description
Senior Frontend/JavaScript Developer Contractor, TV Everywhere Group
We’re looking for a passionate and experienced senior level frontend/JavaScript developer contractor* to help lead the build (and continued development) of a next generation multi-device TV everywhere product.
We’ve spent the last year in research, design and user testing phases, and truly believe that this product will be a game changer. Among other things, it allows consumers access to all of the TV content they love, on any device, from all of the sources they already subscribe to.
You will work with a talented and forward thinking team of architects, engineers, designers and product managers who are all passionate about this product and it’s success.
We are looking for someone who lives, eats and breathes web standards, CSS, HTML and JavaScript, has strong leadership skills, and truly wants to play a primary role in designing/building a product that they are proud of.
We are an established, energetic public company located on the waterfront in beautiful Buffalo, NY. Enjoy short commutes, affordable housing, and some of the best food in the country.
What you’ll need to bring to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or the equivalent work experience
- A minimum of 6 years of website development experience
- Expert-level JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills.
- Expert in debugging, profiling, and auditing JavaScript/CSS for performance on both the desktop, and for mobile
- Demonstrated experience building reusable JS components that are modular, performant, and maintainable.
- Proven experience developing large frontends for mobile and the desktop
- Proven experience in the following:
- Building scalable and modular architecture in CSS (SMACSS, BEM, or other methodologies)
- Building large JavaScript architectures in Backbone.js, and others, such as Angular.js, or Ember.js
- Expertise with jQuery, experience with other JavaScript frameworks/libraries such as Knockout.js, YUI, underscore.js, MooTools
- Experience with Mustache templates, and using them both on the client and the server side, as well as other client-side templating systems
- Experience with user interface design principles and implementation
- Experience building web applications heavily using the latest technologies like HTML5 and CSS3
- Experience with HTML5's JS APIs
- Experience with CSS3 animations/transitions
- Experience in programming PHP and other server side languages is desirable
- Experience building applications with Node.js, is desirable
- Proficient in Unix/Linux use, shell scripting is a plus
- Familiarity with Git for version control
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet set deadlines
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to collaborate, and experience working on an agile team
*this contract position will be a minimum of 3 months
Synacor is not your typical 9 to 5 workplace. Our award winning culture doesn’t stop at flexible work hours and 25 cent vending machines. Jeans and t-shirts are typical office attire, even for the executives. Teamwork is an everyday occurrence, and is made easy with our new open workspaces. Our leadership team understands that the best results come from collaboration, so we hire the best and brightest and then let them do what they do best: create cutting-edge products and provide exemplary customer service. Synacor's headquarters is located along Buffalo's waterfront in the Erie Basin Marina. Taking a few minutes to enjoy the serenity of nature is as easy as walking 1,000 feet or so to the water. We even have a lakefront gazebo with wi-fi connection! And if that’s not enough, Synacor pays 100% of health care premiums for employees AND dependents, offers stock option participation, a healthy bonus potential and a very generous paid time off policy. Working with some of the largest cable, telecom and satellite providers, Synacor’s products and online services reach over 25 million high-speed Internet subscribers worldwide. We are looking for great people to join our team and be given the freedom to do the work they were hired to do.
To apply please visit our website: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH11/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=SYNACOR&cws=1&rid=1264
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