Remote Content + CSS + Front End + JavaScript + System Jobs

Do you want to use your coding skills to improve the lives of millions of people? Are you brave enough to **let millions of UX designers use your code**? Are you obsessive about your own **professional development** and **continuous learning-through-doing**? Then read on! \n\nThe Interaction Design Foundation is the biggest online design school globally. Founded in 2002, we have over 90,000 graduates and counting. We're **market leaders** in online design education because the **world’s leading experts** create our content and because we're specialized in design. What’s more, with over 1.5 million monthly visitors, we’re at the forefront of providing premier design education to such organizations as IBM and SAP, as well as thousands of other companies. Our ever-growing community now needs a first-class front-end developer to **help craft the ultimate user experience**.\n\nThis is where your **passion for UX and hard-science coding skills** merge: Every time your code is executed, **you help improve the life of a human being**. And not only that, those members will likely go on to design better products and services to the benefit of all humankind.\n\nOur front-end code is a **vital part of our winning formula**: Our codebase is our baby and it can never become too perfect. You will, therefore, become an **essential part of our long-term success**, someone who is making a **direct impact** on not only the growth and reputation of our foundation but also the whole world of design education and beyond!\n\nThis is a paid **full-time** position which is **location independent**: You’re free to work from wherever you want in the world. You will have regular video-based contact with your colleagues and get to meet them physically on team trips.\n\n**What you will be doing**\n\nYou will join our team as our Senior UI/Front-End Developer and your main responsibilities will be to:\n* Write reusable components using the Laravel Blade template engine, CSS and presentational JavaScript.\n* Help improve our Design System at [https://design-system.interaction-design.org](https://design-system.interaction-design.org) \n* Maintain our PostCSS code base to keep and improve reusability and DX and deliver less CSS to the end user.\n* Improve CSS architecture and guidelines, make principal technical decisions in the UI area.\n* Help us use animations more widely, e.g. with Lottie animations.\n* Automate regression testing and front end code quality checks.\n* Improve the accessibility and performance of our pages.\n* Work with our design team to improve UX on different stages of the design process.\n* Work on PWA for our course platform as a part of the front-end team (offline support, better mobile experience, etc.)\n* Help yourself, and the whole team, get better and better. For example, by improving our handbook at [https://handbook.interaction-design.org](https://handbook.interaction-design.org). Or use our library of evergreen literature on back-end and front-end subjects to broaden your horizon.\n\n**You and our future-proof stack**\n\nForget IE and clunky workarounds for compatibility with other dinosaur browsers: We spend our time only on modern Web APIs since we only support evergreen browsers.\n\nWe’re constantly refactoring our front-end code with the goal of reaching front-end heaven. We seek a balance between sticking with what works and fearlessly exploring the new:\n\n* Laravel Blade template engine (yup, we build our HTML on the server-side).\n* PostCSS to maximize the power of modern CSS.\n* Webpack for perfect control over front-end assets.\n* Latest JS with support for ES2020 features. To accomplish this we use the latest Babel releases.\n* BEM/ITCSS in combination with Tailwind CSS based utility classes.\n* A custom-made [design system](https://design-system.interaction-design.org) to achieve consistency and ease of use.\n\nWe ❤ CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) so we usually deploy a few releases per day: Zero downtime. Just a few buttons to push. No sweaty palms.\n\nWe care deeply about Developer Experience (DX) of our codebase and tools. DX and DevOps is our middle name: git, GitHub, HTTP2, CDN, AWS, Enterprise SSDs on our high-spec servers and much more.\n\n**About you**\n\n* You have at least 5 years of experience working as a Front-End Developer.\n* You prefer native web APIs and functionality over alluring new frameworks - and you know how and when to use them.\n* You regularly use WHATWG and W3C and you are intimately familiar with the latest web standards.\n* You can create your own intelligent, reusable CSS layout system.\n* You test across devices and browsers, and optimize for performance.\n* You write testable code.\n* You love to learn through doing. You’re always ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.\n* You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable – since you will be working with people from Canada, England, Denmark, the US, Belarus and Brazil among others.\n* You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work. \n* You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.\n* You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.\n* You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.\n\n**Bonus points**\n\nYou get bonus points…\n* if you have contributed to open source\n* if you have a Master’s Degree in Computer Science\n* if you have PHP coding experience\n* if you have read articles from the following authors:\n * Heydon Pickering https://heydonworks.com/latest/\n * Rob Dodson\n * Sara Soueidan https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/ \n\nPlease mention the words **PREFER PANIC SUGAR** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNDM=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nDescription\nWe are looking for a Senior Front-End Web UI Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities will include creating and translating the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce the visual elements of the application.\n\nThis is a part time contract remote role that can be done from anywhere in Europe\n\nWhat you’ll be doing:\n\n\n* Develop dynamic UI features\n\n* Build reusable code and libraries for future use\n\n* Creating UI/UX designs\n\n* Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs\n\n* Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability\n\n* Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end\n\n* Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders\n\n\n\n\nYou may be a good match for this role if...\n\n\n* You have at least 6 years working with front-end/UI technologies, and 2-3 of those years in Angular\n\n* Proficient experience of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3,  ES6+\n\n* Experience in server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS\n\n* Proficient experience of client-side scripting, JavaScript, and JS libraries like jQuery.\n\n* Proficient understanding of JavaScript frameworks, such as Angular, Node, React, etc.\n\n* Strong experience with Angular 2+\n\n* Experience with Node.js and NPM\n\n* Understanding of UI design standards and best practices (Material, etc)\n\n* Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX\n\n* Basic knowledge of some image authoring tools, such as Gimp or Photoshop.\n\n* Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools\n\n* Proficient experience of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.\n\n* Proficient understanding of code versioning tools\n\n* Good understanding of SEO principles\n\n* Proficient understanding of Bootstrap UI framework\n\n* Good understanding of JSON\n\n* Self-managed developer with the ability to work in a remote team environment.\n\n* Research, Analytical and problem solving skills\n\n* You possess excellent communication skills.\n\n* You have proven yourself to be a hands-on contributor who can think outside the box.\n\n* You are a strong cultural fit with [A]’s values.\n\n\n\n\nCultural Fit at [A]\n\n\n* You love learning, you love teaching.\n\n* You are constantly growing your own knowledge, and helping to grow the knowledge of others.\n\n* You enjoy wearing multiple hats and roles, and titles are not important to you.\n\n* You do top-quality work, manage quality, and make everything you touch better.\n\n* You are comfortable working under strict confidentiality agreements and often behind-the-scenes.\n\n* You are self-organized and manage time and resources well.\n\n* You are able to not only work alone, but also communicate within a team by sending updates, tracking time, and other forms of communication while you work.\n\n\n\n\nWhat is [A]?\n\n[A] is the Content Intelligence Service, and we work with clients to create a Content Intelligence System. The Content Intelligence System is a holistic set of people, processes, and tools that maximize content-ROI by ensuring content is coherent, self-aware, and quantum.  By creating a Content Intelligence System, we increase the effectiveness and ROI of the content assets while reducing overall costs. [A] works holistically to build all aspects of a content intelligence system in partnership with clients and agencies. This includes not just the technology architecture and implementation, but enabling companies with the organizational muscles to drive content intelligence.\n\n[A] Team Benefits\n\nBeing an [A]gent comes with its benefits. Work from anywhere. Advance your career on the leading-edge of the content and technology sciences. But many [A]gents find the best part of working here are the other [A]gents you work with and the culture at [A].\n\nWe take care of each other and we honor each other's work and contributions to the team. We work to make ourselves better and our [A] team better. We make efforts to adapt new technologies and methodologies that can help us optimize our time, and we expect you to collaborate on these efforts if you’re an expert on any of those fields. We communicate and reach out to other [A] players.  We love learning. We love teaching. We write. We code. We support each other. For the right people, working at [A] feels like coming home.\n\nWhat’s Your Name, [A]gain?\n\nWhat Our name is easy. Just say “A.” The [A] brackets represent markup, microdata, content intelligence. The letter “[A]” represents the start, initiation, beginning of change. We are going to help change the world with intelligent content.\n\nLearn more about [A] at simplea.com.\n\nIf this sounds like you, then write up a cover letter letting [A] know why you want to work at [A], what you do best, and what inspires you.  A great cover letter will say much more than the resume (though we'd like to see that too). \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, CSS, Angular, SEO and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n