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Engine Yard - Fulltime, REMOTE Frontend Engineer We're one of the oldest PaaS's out there, with support for PHP/Ruby/Java/node.js and both AWS and Azure. Earlier this year we launched a brand new user experience from the ground-up -- a new website and a completely new client-side interface. As a Frontend Engineer, you'd be working primarily on the latter. The UI is written using angular.js served up by a lightweight node.js api proxy server. We use jasmin/protractor/selenium for our tests and only accept green builds via travis to be merged to master. Through our "eybot" on slackhq, we deploy stable code to production multiple times a day. The UX engineering team at Engine Yard consists of 3 UI designers and 4 engineers (including myself). We're spread out across 8 timezones (Dublin through San Francisco), so experience working in a distributed team is key. You'll get: * Competitive salary * Full medical, dental and vision benefits * 25 paid days off per year * 401(k) * We take care of your phone bill * Paid travel to conferences Must haves: * A passion for writing great software to solve real problems for real people * Demonstrated experience building complex client-side applications in JavaScript, preferably with angular.js * Experience working in a distributed team * The strong belief that a feature isn't finished until it's tested and, where appropriate, documented * A fantastic sense of sarcasm * Ability to travel occasionally (at least once or twice a year) * Somewhere between UTC and UTC-8 Great to have: * Thorough understanding of git * Experience building REST apis * Experience with multiple languages (and an understanding of their tradeoffs) * Experience with agile development * Previously worked at a startup If you're interested, shoot me your info at cewing@engineyard.com.