Web Developer II
To apply for this position, please send your resume to jobs@wetpaint.com.
Wetpaint is a next-generation media platform company that uses its proprietary state-of-the-art technologies and expertise in social media to build and monetize audiences. You will become part of a next-generation media and technology startup with a culture of continuous revolution. In 18 months, we built a media property with over 12 million unique visitors, we’ve become the number one social publisher in the world, and we’ve accumulated over 2 million engaged Facebook fans. Wetpaint is listed as a top five Startup in Seattle.
We need a versatile engineer with the front-end skills to help grow our addictive and mesmerizing design and user experience. We are looking for someone who lives and breathes JavaScript, CSS and HTML, and loves implementing UIs. This person also needs to have a good eye for design and is border-line obsessed with pixel perfection.
As a member of our small, agile technical team, you will have ample opportunity to innovate and shape Wetpaint’s product. Shoot us your resume / LinkedIn profile and a link to your portfolio. We’d love to hear from you!
What your typical day may look like…
- Come in around 9:30 for the daily standup. Find out that one of the other devs has a code review ready and needs someone to take a look. You volunteer to help them.
- By 10:30, you’re done with the code review — you sent them the feedback through Github.
- At 10:35, you look through your work items for the sprint and begin working on the next one — an A/B test for a widget that will help publishers convert visitors to their site into fans. You whip up a quick prototype, and around 11:30, you have something to show your designer.
- You call over the designer and improve the look and feel of the widget together.
- At 12:30, a few of your colleagues are heading out to grab a sandwich nearby and you join them.
- You’re back from lunch and continuing to plug away at the widget; a good chunk of work is done at 4, so you send it out for code review and push it to the staging environment.
- Around 4, you look at Google Analytics and Facebook Insights stats for the component you released a few days ago; you see an unexpected trend — the conversion rate is far higher than you anticipated. You grab a couple screenshots and send a note to the team, encouraging everyone to consider investing into this feature area heavily for the sprint that starts next week.
- You finish the day fixing a JavaScript bug. It’s surprisingly non-trivial — you want to add a few unit tests to make sure it’s covered in the next regression run. You don’t know how to get the fixtures to work quite right; your neighbor has done this before, so he saves you a bunch of time with a few simple answers.
- Around 6, the crew is wrapping up; several folks are beginning a Starcraft match. You use your nerf gun to communicate that their loud screams aren’t helping you write JS tests. A few minutes later, you give in to the temptation and join them.
What you’ll do…
- Develop front-end features and functionality on our Ruby-on-Rails and JavaScript-based application
- Evolve the front-end to work better on mobile platforms
- Work with nice, smart people on a young and evolving system
- Solve hard problems
Skills and Experience
- 2+ years developing consumer-facing web sites with HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- A sensitivity and interest in the user’s experience on our sites
- Sass/CSS
- Fundamental server-side development skills. We use Ruby on Rails; if you’ve used Python, PHP, ASP.NET, or Java, you’ll be able to come up to speed quickly.
- Relational database fundamentals, including modelling and SQL.
- Follow-through and attention to detail.
- Creativity and desire to innovate and push the boundaries, entrepreneurial spirit.