Friday, March 23, 2012

Job opening - Front-end Engineer at ThisIs.Me (San Francisco, CA)



Are you looking for an exciting, ground-floor opportunity and the ability to have a major impact on a product and company?



We are an experienced, early stage, seed-funded company with an idea that is really cool and has great potential.  We’ve gotten ourselves organized (i.e. benefits, payroll, etc.), focused, and have the idea and opportunity well defined.  We’d love to tell you all about it.



We are ready to hire our first, non-founder team members to help us develop the product, create value, and have a good time doing it.  You will be joining us at a very early stage and will have a significant contribution on our culture and direction.  



We are building a product that will change the way consumers interact with content on mobile devices by combining social media content with other digital activity ! to create fun, dynamic, and interactive experiences that delight the user, provide value, and make them want to return again and again.



Do you appreciate mobile applications, user interface design and aesthetics?  Do you have exceptional UI design intuition and strong engineering skills with passion to build interactive and engaging user experiences and bask in the pleasure of delighting the user?  If so, let’s talk.



Our team: We value creativity, flexibility, collaboration, hard work, confidence, integrity, honesty, openness and humor. Life is too short and we spend too much time at our jobs to not make it an enjoyable place to accomplish cool things and have fun along the way. We are passionate about creating products that consumers will love and use frequently. We have extremely high standards and expect you to, as well. Plus, we’re an eclectic mix with diverse backgrounds and experiences that we hope are pretty fun to ! hang-out with.



Your responsibilities as our Fro! ntend Engineer:



Collaborate around the creation of new and existing features.
Craft and maintain applications for both the Web and Mobile Web.
Implement beautiful user interfaces.


The experience we’d like to see from you:



B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent.
Extraordinary software engineering talent: data structures, algorithms, design, extensibility, maintainability
Demonstrated expert in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Fluent with jQuery (or Sencha, Sproutcore), jQueryMobile, Undersscore.js, LESS or Sass
Familiarity with templating engines like dust, mustache, handlebars, Mako, etc.
Competency in a backend programming language like Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java
Passion for implementing beautiful user interfaces 
Expert ability to get things done on a small team.
Familiarity with PhoneGap and/or Titan! ium
Bonus points (but not required): iOS SDK and/or Android SDK and related technologies
3-5 years professional experience


Benefits/Perks:



Salary and equity
Medical/dental/vision/life insurance benefits
Dog-friendly, tragically-hip office in SOMA by South Park
Free lunches
Flexible, lean startup environment

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