Immediate Opening!
ABOUT THE PROJECT
We're gearing up to help our client design a system that will support a complex business workflow. We're seeking a front-end developer with several years of experience who enjoys rapid prototyping in HTML/CSS.
We're looking for someone who can begin work immediately. This project is estimated to be 30-40 hours/week for 3 weeks. When applying, please include work samples.
ABOUT YOU
You are a front-end engineer who enjoys rapid design prototyping. You are comfortable being the sole engineer on a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. You delight in building excellent products, not just excellent code. You aspire to collaborate with a team/client to take new products from idea and vision to functional code.
This is an exciting time for Philosophie. We’re helping world-class enterprises and start-ups effectively use new technologies.
TO APPLY
Please share your Linkedin or a resume, along with a link to work samples. Please provide context for the work samples you've provided, including any technologies used.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL
- Deliver excellent design prototypes in code (HTML/CSS)
- Quickly develop and test solutions that make peoples' experience at work vastly better
- Interpret and implement design and customer requirements
- Interact directly with the client
- Collaborate closely with nontechnical team members (design, product, client, etc.)
- Participate in code review
- Determine and implement appropriate automated testing solutions given the constraints of a project
- Actively participate in an agile development process, including contributing to story creation, estimation, daily standups, etc.
- Actively participate in a lean product development process (influenced by Lean Startup, Lean UX, etc), including bringing the engineering perspective to design activities
WE’D LOVE YOU TO BRING
- Relevant software engineering experience (HTML/CSS)
- Comfort with rapid prototyping
- Strong knowledge of software design principles and patterns
- Critical thinking skills, creativity
- Speed, efficiency, and bandwidth
- Strong communication skills
- Experience working on a team
- Flexibility with tools and tech stack (we work with modern technologies and provide on-the-job training)
- Experience with VCS, particularly git
- A sense of humor; because, in the end, working here is fun!
- A high comfort-level in a fast-paced environment
NICE-TO-HAVES
- Experience with Ruby and/or Python
- Experience with JavaScript on the server (Node, io.js)
- Experience with server-side MVC frameworks like Rails, Django, Sails, etc.
- Experience with front end JavaScript frameworks like Angular, Ember, and/or Backbone
- Experience with iOS development using Obj-C or Swift
- Consulting experience (independent or with a company)
- Strong understanding of automated testing at various levels of the system (unit, integration, acceptance), including experience with development practices like TDD and BDD
A LITTLE ABOUT THE TEAM
At Philosophie, we love making things. We are a diverse team of designers, engineers, and product strategists. With different backgrounds and skillsets, we come together to make useful technology. Our clients (Fortune 500 to startups) come to us with early stage product ideas; and we prototype those ideas to life. Teams make decisions collaboratively and lead clients to successful outcome. We’ve been around for almost a decade, but we still apply a startup mentality to everything we do. We work out of our beautiful, creatively inspired offices in Los Angeles and New York.
Our people describe our culture as caring, collaborative, experimental, and ethical. We are proud to have received Inc.'s Best Workplaces award, the Healthy Mothers' Workplace award, and twice recognized in Inc.'s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies.
LAST, BUT NOT LEASTAt Philosophie, we believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas lead to better products. We've designed our company to be responsive to employees: good ideas are heard and easy to execute on. We champion people of different backgrounds and perspectives. We do not discriminate; we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories.
Explore our values
here
https://philosophie.is/
https://thinking.philosophie.is/