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Unique ID:
#8119
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Price:
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Location:
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Posted on:
26th of January 2016 at 8:26 PM
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Expires in:
Expired
Overview of Position
Varsity Tutors, one of the fastest-growing eCommerce companies in the country, is seeking talented Front End Developers to help us dramatically scale our digital learning technology and national platform. We operate a live learning platform with high-quality tutors, mobile learning apps, online tutoring environments, and other academic and test prep-focused technologies. We connect students to top tutors nationally and have over 15,000 tutors on our platform. Our company has grown rapidly over the last few years and we promote a fun, collaborative work environment. Front End Developers will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer and be heavily involved in UX/UI areas of our site. Apply Now!
http://www.varsitytutors.com/front_end_developer-jobs-7?=clpost
Qualifications •Experience with the Rails framework
•Ability to create design ideas in Photoshop
•Rapidly build prototypes through wireframes or lightweight HTML prototypes
•Experience with cutting PSD’s into UI elements
•In depth knowledge with HTML(5) and CSS3
•Experience with SCSS/SASS
•Experience with jQuery
•Experience with heavily AJAXed front-ends
•Experience with Bootstrap
Pluses •Experience with Compass
•Experience with CSS image sprites
•Experience with the Git framework
Please provide references or links to examples of your work (portfolio, sites you have helped design and develop) in your cover letter
Responsibilities •Committed to producing high quality work
•Work with other developers and the Varsity Team to design new features and enhance services
•Motivated starter that is obsessed with improving workflow through better user interfaces
•Turn mockups into fast, efficient JavaScript-driven pixel perfect front-end implementations
•Driven to improving the front-end experience through reducing load time, decreasing requests and shrinking page footprints
•Improve our brand across all of our media channels
What we offer full-time employees •$2,000 worth of company-issued equipment and software
•52 hours of free tutoring per year for you or immediate family (Taking a trip to Italy soon? Beef up on your Italian with one of our tutors for free.)
•Healthcare coverage
•Entrepreneurial, fun, fast-paced work environment in nationally expanding company
•On-the-job training and ongoing career development
•World-class web developers work to make your job easier. Make suggestions directly to the Chief Technology Officer and quickly see your ideas implemented
•An open work environment that emphasizes direct communication lines. Pitch your ideas straight to the CEO
•A company you’re proud to work for. Your work directly impacts families and students, helping them achieve their academic goals
Apply Now!
http://www.varsitytutors.com/front_end_developer-jobs-7?=clpost
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