Front End or Full Stack Web Engineer

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Front End or Full Stack Web Engineer
Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is looking for a Senior Web Engineer to join our product development team. The candidate will be adding polish and flair to our portfolio of entertainment news sites, including BGR, Deadline, Hollywood Life, TVLine, and Variety.

We offer a fun, fast-paced working environment where you will be working alongside our distributed team in an agile fashion. Engineering team members may work remotely, or from our offices (Los Angeles, New York, Mumbai) depending on preference and location.

Candidates with strong communication and time management skills are highly preferred. In order for the candidate to grow beyond a basic developer, the ability to effectively coordinate directly with multiple clients in a given week is essential.

Skills & Requirements
Candidates should have proven experience with modern CSS, Javascript (we primarily use jQuery), semantic HTML, responsive design, and PHP. Experience building custom WordPress themes and plug-ins and using the WordPress API is a major plus, but non-essential. PMC is willing to provide training and mentoring on WordPress-specific development.

Candidates are expected to have enough command line knowledge to set up a local development and testing environment on your computer, and be able to manage version control (checkout, branching, and merging); and enough PHP knowledge to create a modern responsive WordPress theme from scratch, modify plugins, and fix bugs.

The job will include translating design into action, including working with PMC’s design team to take a wireframed product and realize it as a functional web site or application.

Required skills:
  • Minimum 3 years of front end web development experience (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
  • Minimum 3 years of PHP programming experience
  • Proven ability to identify UI or UX improvements and solve them
  • Current knowledge of best practices and technologies: lazy loading, background requests, lightweight and scalable image handling, browser compatibility
  • Experience working in a collaborative team environment using version control software like Subversion or Git
  • Proven ability to write clean, organized, and well-documented code
  • Learn and follow PMC’s coding standards, project methodology, and best practices


  • Helpful skills:
  • SCSS
  • UX
  • Usability
  • Salary


  • Base salary: $70k–$80k/annual. If you’re very senior, we can accommodate you.

    How to Apply
    Please send an e-mail with your résumé.

    We encourage you to include links to work on Github or similar sites, WordPress.org contributions or plugins, and other places where we can see your personality and what you’ve done (Twitter, personal website, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, etc).

    About PMC
    PMC is a leading digital media company that owns and operates a growing portfolio of consumer portals and essential online content destinations. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, USA the company owns a unique and growing portfolio of lifestyle brands that provide the web’s best original content in categories including entertainment, sports, breaking news, media, finance, tech, health, shopping, fashion, beauty, and automotive.

    PMC’s engineering team is a leader in developing for media. Our team has contributed bug fixes and features to WordPress core, and partners with the best and brightest in the WordPress and media communities. At PMC we pride ourselves on taking superior care of our most valuable asset: Our people.

    As a team member at PMC, not only will you be working with a group of smart and driven colleagues, but you will also enjoy excellent work culture and ensure continuous growth & learning. PMC’s engineers are expected to contribute to this atmosphere by mentoring team members in your areas of expertise, participating in peer code reviews, and contributing to PMC’s internal documentation and knowledge base.

    PMC is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly support diversity in the workplace.
    Start date
    ASAP
    From
    Penske Media Corporation (PMC)
    Published at
    01.07.2014
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    734859
    Contract type
    Freelance
    Workplace
    100 % remote
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