Web Developer

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Atlas Obscura is looking for a full-time developer to join our small but cracking team in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

You'll help conceptualize and build new features and improve our existing code base, all while ensuring the application stays sharp and snappy. And most importantly, you'll help craft a product that millions of people use to discover the most amazing places in the world.

Required

• 3-5 years experience in professional web development.
• Experience crafting front-end applications with a JS framework (React, Ember, Angular, etc).
• Experience with at least one MVC app framework (e.g. Rails, Express, Django, etc).
• Experience with Bootstrap, Foundation, or any other CSS framework/toolkit.
• Experience with git/GitHub and other standard tools of the trade.
• Familiarity with REST, MVC, JSON, and digging deep into 3rd-party APIs.
• Curiosity! We use the best tools for the job, even if that means learning something new.
• A desire to understand the product and users, not just the code.
• A passion for Atlas Obscura’s mission of discovery and wonder.
• A sense of humor. Please

Bonus

• Experience with AWS, Heroku, and/or basic dev-ops.
• Any experience working on native mobile applications.