UI Engineer
Whalerock Industries
Santa Monica, CAThis was removed by the employer on 6/30/2015 2:46:00 PM PST
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Full Time Job
Whalerock Industries is looking for a full-time UI Engineer. You’ll be working with our tight-knit UI Engineering Group as well as within feature/product groups to build and maintain our brands and the platform that powers them. Work in a fun, fast-paced, agile environment and help refine extensive brand and platform roadmaps. You will have the opportunity to contribute your design and development expertise and ideas to our products at every stage while utilizing the best tools available.
The ideal candidate…
Will…
• Assist in creating dynamic interfaces for new brand products such as Howard Stern and Tyler, the Creator.
• Improve and expand existing high-traffic web products.
• Evaluate codebase with a focus on performance, accessibility and keeping things DRY.
• Contribute to our rapidly-evolving Whiskey Media Platform.
• Help us open source and contribute to our most useful internal tools and frameworks.
Is…
• Highly understanding of UI/X design and development
• Adherent to SMACSS principles and keeps things DRY with functions and mixins
• Familiar with Ember.js or similar client-side MVC frameworks
• Knowledgeable or Django framework and its templating syntax
• Experienced working with REST APIs
Has…
• 3 years experience creating with modern web standards in HTML, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery.
• Experience working with Sass (Scss) or similar CSS extension languages.
• Practical experience building responsive interfaces from mobile out.
• Familiarity with Git version control.
• Ability to work well in a group to meet deadlines.
Success at Whalerock Industries requires that…
• You have a sense of humor.
• You love to win.
• You like getting your hands dirty.
• You solve problems.
• You are entrepreneurial, smart, and passionate.
• You know the acronyms but speak in plain English.
• If you don't know something, you say so. Then go figure it out quickly.
• You naturally go the extra mile.
• You thrive in a fast-paced work environment, readily adapting to continually changing priorities and aggressive project timeframes.
• You give credit to others where credit is due and take responsibility for misses when they rest with you.
• Did we mention you love to win?
Whalerock Industries is a Santa Monica based company with interests across the media and technology landscape. Whalerock’s digital brands include Wonderwall, Moviefone, Mandatory, Mom.me, Tested, PawNation, Purple Clover, and Cinefix, among others. Whalerock Industries has strategic alliances with MGM, Starcom MediaVest, P&G, Aol, AARP, Microsoft, YouTube and other major global institutions to bring world-class premium content and experiences to tens of millions of people every month across all devices and screens.