Jobs At Newsvine

Newsvine is a great place to work. Our office is in the scenic Queen Anne/Belltown/Waterfront district of downtown Seattle, and we're situated right next to Myrtle Edwards Park and Elliott Bay. We have a barbeque on our deck, plenty of beer in the fridge, and a great jogging route right outside the front door.

Current Openings

Front-End Developer

The Newsvine/msnbc.com Community Team is looking for an experienced, self-motivated, and passionate front-end developer to join us in building products and services. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop site features and functionality in a multi-tier web environment using PHP, CSS, Javascript (JQuery). Additional responsibilities include daily site support and maintenance. The ideal candidate is able to work on small teams under tight deadlines with little supervision. A computer science degree or equivalent is a plus, but experience, skill, and attention to detail are equally important.

The ideal candidate will have a strong command of the following knowledge areas:

• X/HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript
• PHP or similar scripting language
• Mastery of web standards and cross-browser compatibility

Preferable Job Qualifications:

• Experience working on large-scale, high-availability web sites
• Successful industry experience using the latest best practices in accessible, standards-compliant, and unobtrusive DOM scripting
• Experience with SQL and relational database implementations serving as the backend to production web applications
• Experience with, or an interest in, working with JQuery
• Familiarity with Subversion a plus

We are specifically looking for someone who is passionate about writing code. Javascript, PHP, HTML, etc. This is not a design position and the only UI work involved will be on the implementation side, from a coding perspective.

You can apply here.