Grist is looking for a front-end Web developer with strong experience with WordPress plugin and theme development. If you have experience working in the media, aim for excellence, see failure as a learning opportunity, and believe it’s possible to crack a joke and change the world at the same time, this could be the job for you.
Grist is a fast-growing organization that combines the energy, creativity, and initiative of a young internet company with the spirit of a nonprofit. Yeah, we said nonprofit; that means no free smoothies and foosball every time you turn around, but it also means walking into work with the feeling that what you do actually matters. That’s a good feeling, trust us. (And we’re not above the occasional Fruit Ninja tournament.)
Here's a short list of some of the opportunities this job offers:
- The challenge to develop for a rapidly growing mobile audience.
- The chance to be creative and participate in product design.
- Work with journalists on stories to provide interactive content build with new Web technologies.
- The opportunity to work in WordPress in an enterprise environment.
You’ll work in close collaboration with designers and developers on a Macbook Air in a daily scrum to develop our Zurb-Foundation 4 based WordPress theme with a focus on creating a great reading experience. You’re passionate about UX and are conversant about modern Web design. You’re experienced with responsive design techniques and have a deep appreciation of the challenges in designing for mobile audiences. You're interested in taking our site to the next level by employing backbone.js and developing new features for both our readers and authors. You’ll help us tailor our site for a majority mobile audience and will help us optimize for the reading experience though A/B testing and code performance.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a fast-growing organization that combines the energy, creativity, and initiative of a young internet company with the spirit of a nonprofit. This is a full-time salaried position with good benefits. Our team is located in downtown Seattle, and we prefer local candidates who can work with us in person.