Full-stack Web Developer

FINE is a brand agency for the digital age. We help define companies, using the media customers now turn to when they want a definition. We conceive, design, build, and manage the key touchpoints that connect brands with people in digital space and beyond: brand strategy, identity, digital destinations, websites, content, applications, and more.

We're looking for an experienced full-stack developer to join our crew of eccentric geniuses in Portland! This is a mid- to senior-level position using Ruby on Rails, SCSS and Javascript to build new websites for our clients, along with occasional feature additions to existing sites and ongoing work to improve and maintain our open-source CMS, the basis for most of our builds.

You will work closely with our project managers, designers, documentalists, production manager and other developers focused on building sites that are beautiful, performant, and maintainable. Full-stack devs at FINE are sometimes asked to build sites by themselves and sometimes as part of a larger team. Our designers hand off detailed comps and our documentalists provide thorough technical specifications so you can focus on conceiving, implementing and verifying fabulous code solutions. We value collaboration, communication and professional growth highly and provide opportunities for these things as often as we can. We also value independence and critical thinking, and expect all our employees to be able to manage their own schedules and responsibilities.

**Core skills** * Expert-level Ruby (on Rails) skills, including building Rails apps within a team environment * Comprehensive knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and related specs, APIs and polyfills * High-level Javascript skills, including awareness of when to use jQuery and when not to, as well as familiarity with Ecmascript 6 and emerging trends in JS * Got to have Git skills * "Luxury edition" communication skills ranging from an awesome sense of humor to an ability to clearly communicate complex technical issues to non-technical people * A sharp eye for aesthetics: developers at FINE are held to extremely high standards of front-end build quality. If your portfolio includes sites where text overlaps at certain browser sizes, that's a dealbreaker for us * You take personal responsibility for your deadlines, code quality, and tasks * You communicate effectively & often **Bonus skills** * PHP / Wordpress experience * Advanced JS experience * Ecommerce experience * You're a mover and shaker within the industry via conference appearances, social media, open source contributions / management, etc * You're comfortable with Slack, GoToMeeting, "telephones", in-person discussions * You pronounce gif with a hard "g" (or you can learn to)