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Hiring: Experienced Front-end Developer (JavaScript)

DESCRIPTION

Disqus is hiring an experienced engineer to work on the front-end development across parts of Disqus.

• This is a possible lead role depending on qualifications.
• You will work with our small tech-heavy team where engineering is always king.
• Fast-paced environment with the right balance of quick, iterative development versus more deliberate, smart architecting.
• You will work with both the website application and the embedded scripts (widgets).
• Design and implement features which will be used by millions of people on release.
• You will help design and develop a templating language not unlike PHP or Django.
• Develop heavily with raw JavaScript in the embedded scripts, which are the most trafficked part of Disqus.
• Work heavily with cross-domain issues and take advantage of the newest web technologies (e.g. HTML5), or bend existing web technologies to accomplish new things.
• Develop methods to improve performance across all combinations of browsers and platforms.

• Responsible for writing clean, semantic HTML and CSS.

ABOUT YOU

• JavaScript expert. You know the ins and outs of JavaScript and can develop very interesting things. Libraries such as jQuery and Prototype are fun to use, but you don’t need them.
• Very experienced with common and obscure cross-browser and cross-domain issues, hacks, and solutions.
• Know HTML and CSS very well. You know when to separate layout from style and logic.
• Familiar with HTML templating systems such as Django, Cheetah, CakePHP.
• Skilled with UI and UX design. Graphic/art design is not required but is a plus.
• Understand user behavior and application flow. You make applications that are fun to use and leave people happy.
• You are familiar and can work with Python and Django.

• You don’t indiscriminately use XMLHTTPRequest every chance you get.

ABOUT DISQUS

Disqus’ web application and service is used by millions of people to get the most out of their comments and discussions on the web. Publishers of all sizes use Disqus Comments to power and manage their discussions, while Disqus Profile enables people to track and control their comments all over the web.

• The users of Disqus range from passionate, early-adopting bloggers to casual, mainstream web-goers.
• We focus on building powerful, versatile software which perform and scale well; and delivering enjoyable user experiences that are accessible to everyone, not just the web-savvy.
• Small, tech-heavy team located in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco.
• Investors include Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator.

• In addition to salary, we offer benefits, stock options, and equipment

Join a rapidly growing service used by a large number, and broad range, of different people all over the web. What we do is at the core of how people contribute and communicate on the web — help us continue bringing new media and technology to this generation of publications.

Further details at JavaScript Ninja