NowPublic.com is currently seeking 8 full time developers in both front and back end disciplines to augment its existing team of rock stars. NowPublic was recently acquired by the Clarity Digital Group which owns and operates Examiner.com the source for local news and information in North America. Over the next 6-8 months we'll be migrating Examiner.com, a top 60 website, to the NowPublic Drupal based Platform creating one of the largest drupal sites on the planet. We need your help! PLEASE CONTACT JOBS (AT) NOWPUBLIC (DOT) COM IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING
front-end position:As User Interface Engineer, you will be involved in all phases of UI development from requirement analysis through design, development, testing, final delivery and maintenance. You will interact with the entire team from Product Managers to Designers and Developers, as well as End Users to provide ongoing improvements to the user experience, performance, and maintainability of the site. You are responsible for translating visual designs into standards-compliant and performant web pages using the latest front web technologies with pixel perfect attention to detail and integrating these components with our Drupal based platform. You will be relied upon as the guru or go to person for all things front end, so this position requires mastery of rich internet application development techniques, and the desire to evangelize best practices to our team of software engineers. Beyond your technical skills, you need to possess a keen eye for IA, design, and usability. You need to be a strong conceptual thinker and creative problem solver who understands and can articulate what makes sites successful along with the skills and self-starter attitude that will enable you to hit the ground running and start contributing right away.
back-end position: As a Developer, you will also be responsible for participating in the design, development, implementation, testing, quality assurance, and maintenance of all layers and aspects of our products and systems. This position has significant hands-on coding responsibilities, and requires a strong background in computer science and web development with knowledge of the full software development life cycle. The position additionally requires an individual capable of forward-thinking particularly with respect to performance and scaling requirements. Experience with large scale websites and migrating legacy content management systems to Drupal would be an advantage, as would experience working with C++.
Responsibilities:
* Help collaborate on and develop comprehensive functional specifications and work estimates based on these specifications.
* Work with the development and product teams to design, develop and test applications according to specifications.
* Contribute creative ideas to the product development pipeline.
* Support and troubleshoot systems as required, optimizing performance, resolving production problems, and providing timely status updates.
* Help develop and maintain coding standards and best practices, and provide suggestions for application and process improvement.
* Use the NowPublic web site, tools, and systems on a regular basis, contributing to the community and providing feedback on the workflow and processes.
* Other duties as assigned.
Experience:
* This position requires strong problem-solving skills and a strong working knowledge of web technologies, in particular web 2.0-type applications.
* Experience building highly scalable / performance optimized code a strong plus.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Exceptional creative problem solving and analysis capabilities
* Ability to work under tight schedules across multiple projects simultaneously.
* We are looking to build a team with complementary skills, so you need not be an expert in all web technologies, but you must have extensive experience with the following technologies: PHP, (My)SQL and have experience with some of the following: Drupal, JavaScript, JQuery, Firefox extensions (XUL), SVN, Web Analytics / Statistics, AJAX, (X)HTML, CSS, C++
PLEASE CONTACT JOBS (AT) NOWPUBLIC (DOT) COM IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING
Location:
The NowPublic.com development is highly distributed with team members all over the world - we believe in hiring the best talent that's available, and often this means being flexible wrt location. That said, we need at least one front end developer in Vancouver, BC Canada where we have offices. We also have offices in New York City and Denver, Colorado. All other locations telecommute.
About NowPublic.com
NowPublic is a crowd-sourced, participatory news network that mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In its short history, the company has become the largest news organization of its kind with contributing reporters in more than 6,000 cities and 160 countries. The Guardian has named NowPublic.com one of the top five most useful news sites on the Web and Time Magazine named it one of the Top 50 Websites for 2007. The company has received funding from Rho Ventures, Rho Canada, Brightspark, GrowthWorks and members of the New York Angels. The recent acquisition of NowPublic by Examiner.com opens up a wealth of unprecedented opportunities for the company and individuals selected to work with us. NowPublic employs some of the top Drupal talent including Karoly Negyesi (chx), Rok Zlender and Konstantin Kaefer (kkaefer). Dries Buytaert, the founder and project lead of Drupal, is an advisor to the company.
About Examiner.com
Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com serves 109 markets across the country and is the insider source for everything local. Examiner.com’s content is contributed by Examiners; passionate, informed, and knowledgeable local influencers. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver-based investment company with a broad array of assets in print and digital media; live sports and entertainment; hospitality; film production and exhibition; wind energy development and transmission; as well as ranching and oil/gas exploration. For more information, visit Examiner.com.
