Frontend Engineer

Oakland, CA or #sparkart  ‐ Onsite
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Sparkart builds software to solve problems as varied as getting the word out to [millions of fans](http://blog.sparkart.com/post/) about a new tour, launching [entirely new businesses](http://www.sparkart.com/work/redbox-tickets), and raising money to develop the [world’s first HIV vaccine](http://www.immunityproject.org). We only build what we need to, using APIs and open source projects wherever possible to help us focus on the problems at hand. [Learn more](http://developers.sparkart.com) We’re on the hunt for a pair of frontend engineers. While our definition of this job certainly encompasses a breadth of HTML+CSS+JS knowledge, our projects generally lean more heavily towards either CSS or JavaScript. Here's some standard qualities we're looking for: ### You - Know a thing or two about floats & flexbox. - Follow BEM or a similar methodology for scoping & naming. - Thoughtfully approach ordering, indentation & other details of the craft. - Use build systems such as Grunt, Gulp, Make, Sprockets, etc. - Know a thing or two about performance. - Are proactive, organized & vocal about everything you do. - Test rigorously & continuously. ### The Job - Recognize patterns in our projects & address with reusable modules wherever sensible. - Package up, open source & maintain. - Write great documentation. - Research, evaluate & integrate third-party modules & services. - Contribute to the development of product UI for Storyteller.io & Universe. - Contribute to the development of Solidus, particularly in the areas of templating & assets. - Maintain coding standards & enforce with tooling & code review.



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Our hiring process goes something like this… If things look good we’ll reach out to talk further and work on at least one project together on contract to see how things go. Together, we’ll figure out what projects/timeline work best.
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sparkart
Published at
01.05.2014
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Project ID:
702260
Contract type
Freelance
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