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Responsibilities

• Working hands-on implementing amazing user experiences
• Collaborate with Product Managers and UX throughout planning and implementation
• Ensure product quality, maintainability, performance and scalability
• Join in the dialog and push for the latest in coding best practices
• Be comfortable with "just-in-time" agile processes
• Generating several solutions to a problem and identifying the trade-offs
• Contribute to code reviews and quality assurance for pull requests
• CSS and JavaScript. Ability to code is not necessary but a plus.

• Git experience (specifically feature branch, pull request, CI workflows)
• Deep JavaScript knowledge, preferably framework agnostic
• A love for all things CSS3 (all the latest and greatest techniques)
• HTML5 semantic architecture
• Understanding the separation of template and controller logic
• Basic LAMP stack familiarity
• Experience solving issues for high-pixel density display
• Photoshop and Illustrator basics
• Test driven development or the desire to learn it
• Excellent independent troubleshooting skills
• Strong programming skills, preferably with experience in PHP and JavaScript
• Experience with large data stores like MySQL and MongoDB and an understanding of how to minimize query times
• Experience using caching layers (eg: redis, memcache, varnish)
• Understanding of CS concepts such as common data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization
• Experience with unit and functional testing
• Basic unix skills

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