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-JavaScript knowledge necessary
Original posting
WebAction (www.webaction.com) in Downtown Palo Alto - Full Time- Hiring Front End Developers and Platform Engineers
Jobs@WebAction.com
WebAction is an enterprise infrastructure software company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing the first Real-Time Big Data Server; a platform that will enable the next generation of real-time, data driven applications. Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley.
We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates, and (of course) a kitchen stocked with snacks and drinks. If you want to join our cutting-edge team, grow as we do and share the excitement of an early start-up environment please apply today.
Job Description: You should be a self-starting web UI developer with a desire to lead and mentor others. You excel in a fast-paced agile environment and will be able to collaborate with back-end engineers to design interfaces and architect interaction models, and with the product team to wire-frame and prototype ideas.
Desired Skills & Experience for Front-end Position:
-JavaScript knowledge necessary – please be prepared to show us examples of your work
-Experience with HTML5/CSS3
-Experience with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, etc.)
-Experience or interest in learning visualization frameworks (d3, processing.js)
-Know how to build drag and drop web diagramming UIs (such as mxGraph, gliffy, drawio)
-Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
-Must be able to function well in an early stage startup environment
-Must be able to multi-task
Pluses:
-Experience in user interaction design and user experience
-Knowledge of back-end web frameworks
-iOS or Android experience
For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to implement a scalable, highly optimized data processing infrastructure.
If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.