Front-End Developer

Warby Parker is a transformative lifestyle brand offering designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially-conscious businesses.

Warby Parker is a transformative lifestyle brand offering designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially-conscious businesses. By cutting out the middlemen and engaging directly with consumers, we're able to offer ultra-high-quality, vintage-inspired frames for $95 including shipping. There's a bigger picture, too: social innovation is woven into the DNA of the company, and for every pair of glasses purchased, a pair is distributed to someone in need.

Our Systems Development team is looking for an exceptional Front End Developer to be part of one of our implementation teams. Their main objective will be to create functional and ascetically beautifully prototypes from concepts and ideas.

Since all work and no play make a dull office, we’re thoroughly committed to infusing our days with surprises, brain-stimulating activities and, when appropriate, costumes. As a team member at Warby Parker you can look forward to company outings, guest speakers, and all sorts of other fun perks.

• Work with our designers to transform Adobe CS files into beautiful, fast, customer-facing web pages that make a user’s day better
• Build proof of concepts and functional prototypes
• Provide real-time validations on the technical feasibility of designs
• Contribute to our web stack—from static HTML and CSS to heavy JS interoperating with the PHP and Python backends
• Create and maintain reusable JS/CSS libraries and components for reuse throughout our site

• Comfortable taking ownership of your work with little coaching
• A team player with stellar communication skills
• Known for having a solid eye for detail and a great taste for aesthetics
• Possess strong, well-formed opinions about what makes for a good user experience

Qualifications:

• Meaningful real-world experience writing hand-coded and framework assisted Javascript, CSS, and HTML
• Experience creating websites built for mobile use
• Experience with responsive web site implementations
• Comfort with the Adobe CS

Extra credit:

• A track record of building interesting and/or challenging side projects
• Some experience writing jQuery, Backbone.js, coffeescript, or some other JS framework
• Experience using versioning software such as Github
• Full-stack experience