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Frontend Engineer - Ruby/jQuery/Blueprint/etc
at Kickball in Silicon Valley, CA
Frontend Engineer
Overview
Kickball is a well-funded Silicon Valley startup building creative tools and a marketplace for digital goods, initially focused on artwork and graphic design - check out Sketchfu.com for an early example of our work. Since starting up last year, our network of sites has quickly grown to over 600,000 registered users creating 100,000 items a week - all of this created by an elite team of 5 engineers. Kickball is backed by top-tier investors who have built successes like Twitter, Netscape, MySQL, Skype, and many others.
The engineering team is lean and quick - we use paper prototyping, agile development, test driven development, and A/B testing to deploy daily releases to the world. Engineers are directly involved in business decisions like user acquisition and monetization, and receive constant feedback from customers via analytics and e-mail contact. Our development stack is 100% open source and is built on Ruby on Rails.
Frontend Engineer role
Your responsibilities at Kickball will be to:
Build a fun, creative consumer experience for millions of people worldwide
Lead discussions around visual and interactive design and champion high-quality product experiences
Design and prototype customer-facing products using OmniGraffle, Photoshop, Balsamiq, and other tools
Translate your designs into cross-browser compliant, standards-based code
Handcode clean, beautiful and maintainable JS, XHTML, CSS
Maintain your code in Git and work directly with the engineering team
Collaborate as a team on business decisions around traffic acquisition, metrics, and monetization
Assist on qualitative and quantitative user research, ethnographic studies, and usability testing
Reports directly to CTO/co-founder
Technologies we use
You should want to learn or have prior experience with the following:
Canvas, Flash/Flex, Actionscript 3 for RIA development
Compass, Blueprint, Rails, jQuery, Haml, and Sass for frontend development
Cucumber, Bacon, Watir, and Git for testing and source control
Munin, God, and Vlad for monitoring and deployment
Qualifications
BA/MA or equivalent experience
Strong professional experience in visual design, user experience, and interaction design
An eye for color, typography, graphic design, illustration
Experience working with user generated content, online social interactions, or e-commerce products
Development experience in Ruby and front-end frameworks/technologies
Familiar with Adobe Flash/Flex, Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent creative tools
Passion for crafting an amazing consumer experience
Benefits and compensation
Competitive salaries and employee benefits
Work directly with startup co-founders and technical leaders
Free fruit, snacks, and drinks
Contact information
If interested, please introduce yourself and send a resume to jobs@kickballin.com.
Overview
Kickball is a well-funded Silicon Valley startup building creative tools and a marketplace for digital goods, initially focused on artwork and graphic design - check out Sketchfu.com for an early example of our work. Since starting up last year, our network of sites has quickly grown to over 600,000 registered users creating 100,000 items a week - all of this created by an elite team of 5 engineers. Kickball is backed by top-tier investors who have built successes like Twitter, Netscape, MySQL, Skype, and many others.
The engineering team is lean and quick - we use paper prototyping, agile development, test driven development, and A/B testing to deploy daily releases to the world. Engineers are directly involved in business decisions like user acquisition and monetization, and receive constant feedback from customers via analytics and e-mail contact. Our development stack is 100% open source and is built on Ruby on Rails.
Frontend Engineer role
Your responsibilities at Kickball will be to:
Build a fun, creative consumer experience for millions of people worldwide
Lead discussions around visual and interactive design and champion high-quality product experiences
Design and prototype customer-facing products using OmniGraffle, Photoshop, Balsamiq, and other tools
Translate your designs into cross-browser compliant, standards-based code
Handcode clean, beautiful and maintainable JS, XHTML, CSS
Maintain your code in Git and work directly with the engineering team
Collaborate as a team on business decisions around traffic acquisition, metrics, and monetization
Assist on qualitative and quantitative user research, ethnographic studies, and usability testing
Reports directly to CTO/co-founder
Technologies we use
You should want to learn or have prior experience with the following:
Canvas, Flash/Flex, Actionscript 3 for RIA development
Compass, Blueprint, Rails, jQuery, Haml, and Sass for frontend development
Cucumber, Bacon, Watir, and Git for testing and source control
Munin, God, and Vlad for monitoring and deployment
Qualifications
BA/MA or equivalent experience
Strong professional experience in visual design, user experience, and interaction design
An eye for color, typography, graphic design, illustration
Experience working with user generated content, online social interactions, or e-commerce products
Development experience in Ruby and front-end frameworks/technologies
Familiar with Adobe Flash/Flex, Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent creative tools
Passion for crafting an amazing consumer experience
Benefits and compensation
Competitive salaries and employee benefits
Work directly with startup co-founders and technical leaders
Free fruit, snacks, and drinks
Contact information
If interested, please introduce yourself and send a resume to jobs@kickballin.com.
Published at 02-07-2009
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