Senior Web Developer

Devpost

(New York, New York)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Devpost

Devpost is the home for hackers. We’re a platform that lets developers showcase what they’re building, learn new skills, and get inspired by the work of their peers. Organizations run online and in-person hackathons to market their tools and initiatives to our active developer community.

Responsibilities

You have a strong commitment to building great, well-factored code. You take pride in your work. You do well in teams. Developers and designers you've worked with think extremely highly of you and your work.

As a web developer on our team, you'll have a huge impact on all of our current and future projects. You'll contribute to product design, implementation, deployment, refinement, and ongoing performance tuning.

  • Shipping web applications to production

  • Using Test-Driven-Development to guide your software design and catch bugs and regressions

  • Treating software engineering as a craft and exploring it outside of your day job

Ideal Candidate
  • Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining web applications

  • Comfort with a server-side MVC framework (e.g. Ruby on Rails, Django, etc.)

  • Ability to write elegant, readable code

  • Attention to software development fundamentals

  • Track record of collaboration and leadership in agile software methodologies

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with front-end technologies, libraries and frameworks (e.g. HTML/CSS, jQuery, Ember.js, Backbone, etc.)

  • Evidence of community involvement, i.e. open source contributions on Github, StackOverflow questions/answers, SlideShare presentations, Devpost portfolio showcasing your projects

Compensation and Working Conditions

Additional Notes on Compensation

- Competitive Salary - Stock Options - Great Benefits - Stocked kitchen and Team Lunch Thursdays

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New York, New York
Skills Desired
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  • CSS
  • HTML
  • jQuery
  • Open Source Software
  • Product Design
  • Software Development
  • Web Applications
  • Writing Code
  • Agile Software Development
  • Backbone.js
  • Django
  • GitHub
  • MVC Framework
  • Performance Tuning
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Ember.js
  • Software Engineering
  • Server-side

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