Be a Visualization Engineer at Poll Everywehre (YC 08')- ONSITE or REMOTE
Are we the right match? Maybe so if some of the buzzwords on your resume include...
You're considered a D3.js expert
CoffeeScript (or you're awesome with plain ol' JS and want to learn CoffeeScript)
Backbone.js (or other js MVC frameworks) or experience incrementally migrating from MVC to frameworks like ReactJS (Your D3.js visualizations will consume data from these objects)
Deep understanding of the JavaScript prototype chain
Test-driven development experience
sass/haml/less
Cross-browser testing (like dealing with IE9+, grrr)
You're a huge fan of Tufte's work (bonus if you've attended one of his talks and can tell us about some of his quirks)
Did we mention that you should care deeply about usability? Don't worry about amazing aesthetics (we don't expect for you to be an amazing designer), but you should know the difference between a good and a bad user interface.
Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform, empowering more than 82 million users to win incredible and inspiring victories on the issues they care about.
We’re an innovative business – a certified “B Corp” – combining the structure of a business with a powerful sense of mission that drives our work. Over 25 million users have signed winning petitions, including strengthening hate crimes legislation in South Africa; fighting corruption in Indonesia, Italy, and Brazil; ending the ban on gay Boy Scouts in the United States, and big wins for women’s rights in India. And we’re just getting started.
We love serving our incredible users, and we love our staff too. We show it with very competitive salaries, five weeks of vacation, robust maternity and parental leave, an amazing culture, free language training (if you want it), and a high impact, low-ego team that can’t wait to learn from you and teach you what they know.
Here's what you'll do as part of our team:
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-be part of a small, close-knit team
-work for a profitable company that is making the world better
-build and scale our core services used by people all over the world
-work in all layers of the web stack, from javascript to linux configuration
-create tools that turn abstract ideas into something visual
teach, learn, and document
And here are the skills & experience we hope you have:
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-properly size-up a situation to understand the potential risk versus gain
-put in place tools to ensure the reliability, availability and serviceability of a service
-identify and analyze issues across the entire stack
-be able to learn new skills quickly as the need arises
-built that cool service or tool your peers used and then wonder how they ever worked without
-sound understanding of Linux, process management, networking and network protocols
-familiarity working with data (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)
-working knowledge of graphite, collected, logster, and StatsD
-knowledge of Chef or similar configuration management tools
automated testing
Are we the right match? Maybe so if some of the buzzwords on your resume include...
You're considered a D3.js expert
CoffeeScript (or you're awesome with plain ol' JS and want to learn CoffeeScript)
Backbone.js (or other js MVC frameworks) or experience incrementally migrating from MVC to frameworks like ReactJS (Your D3.js visualizations will consume data from these objects)
Deep understanding of the JavaScript prototype chain
Test-driven development experience
sass/haml/less
Cross-browser testing (like dealing with IE9+, grrr)
You're a huge fan of Tufte's work (bonus if you've attended one of his talks and can tell us about some of his quirks)
Did we mention that you should care deeply about usability? Don't worry about amazing aesthetics (we don't expect for you to be an amazing designer), but you should know the difference between a good and a bad user interface.
Apply here! https://jobs.lever.co/polleverywhere/82fcc687-deca-4438-b32c...