Remote Content + Developer + JavaScript + JavaScript + Quality Assurance Jobs

\nLOCATION: Remote within the US or Oakland, CA\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering regular Americans to reshape politics.\n\nWe are seeking a passionate Senior Web Developer who will deliver new features in the Content Applications (publishing, authoring, commenting, image library) team on a large Rails application. This person must be efficient, self-motivated, and capable of working with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Rails, React, Varnish, Nginx, RDS/MySQL, Haskell, Nix, ElasticSearch, and AWS. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love to hear from you.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n\n* Design, architect, and code high-performing application solutions\n\n* Partner with engineering team in building best-in-class interface\n\n* Work collaboratively with QA team to deliver quality user experience\n\n* Share on-call responsibilities with team\n\n* Remain current on test, development, and deployment best practices\n\n* Be a team player, share knowledge, and mentor other team members through pairing, feedback, and discussions, etc.\n\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE:\n\n\n* 7+ years of progressive software development experience\n\n* Experience working remotely in a virtual work environment\n\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n\n\n* Extensive development experience in a large and complex (Ruby/Rails) codebase with an emphasis on delivering to production\n\n* Production experience with JS frameworks utilizing virtual DOM and dataflow techniques for building responsive web user interfaces such as React, Redux, Angular, Vue.js)\n\n* Solid JavaScript development skills\n\n* Demonstrated proficiency integrating with third party APIs in Ruby\n\n* Thorough understanding of TDD/BDD/testing, etc.\n\n* Familiar with the Agile development process\n\n* Motivated, organized, and self-directed technical leader\n\n* Critical thinker with thirst for knowledge and continuous improvement\n\n* Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and deliver a quality software experience\n\n* Excellent communication skills and comfortable talking with team members at all levels\n\n\n\n\nSALARY RANGE: $130,000 - $140,000\n\nThe above list is a set of highly desired attributes; we will evaluate each candidate as a whole. Tell us about unique skills, experiences, and attributes that you can bring to such a role that we may be missing and why it would be a benefit to the organization.\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Senior Application Architect. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, optional 401K with a company match, professional development stipend, a generous vacation package, as well as employer-paid maternity/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.\n\nWomen, people of color, and LGBTQIA individuals strongly encouraged to apply. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/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

Join our network of professional optimizers and earn money improving customer experiences for our enterprise clients. We’re looking for talented web designers with a background in experience optimization, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS. As an independent contractor you can help our top-tier enterprise clients optimize their digital experiences with the freedom and flexibility you want. Whether your traveling the world, or working from home, being an Optimizer lets you work your way. \n\n\nPosition Overview:\nWe're seeking talented web professionals with strong coding and design skills who will be responsible for the design and development of alternative variations of webpages using the Kaizen Platform editor. You’ll have an opportunity to help change the look and feel of an array of top-tier web properties and will be involved in the data-driven creative strategy, design and coding of these projects. Through our platform your designs will be tested alongside other variations to reach maximum performance. You will work closely with our Customer Success Team who are available to support you every step of the way. From ensuring you get a clear project scope and detailed brand guidelines, to managing client feedback and experiment results, you will have to resources you need to build and improve your optimization skills. You should be comfortable multi-tasking across projects of varying scope. You must remain current on major design and engineering technologies as well as best practices in website optimization, personalization and user experience design. \n\n\nSkills and Experience:\n 2+ years’ experience with primary duties focused on web design and front-end development\nRapid concept creation and excellent creative design skills\n1+ years of project management experience or actings as project lead with other design/dev resources\nAbility to create high-quality designs and build into a functioning browser compatible execution using proper markup, CSS, HTML and augment with interactive features using JS and jQuery\nProficient in JavaScript, jQuery and other languages used to dynamically render content\nStrong understanding of responsive design and dynamic content\nCross-browser and cross-platform compatible design and development\nFamiliar with formal QA methodologies, processes and techniques\nExperience with content management systems (CMS’s)\nExperience at a digital agency in online retail or direct response marketing preferred\nTablet and mobile optimized development experience\nCertification in any relevant technologies or affiliation with recognized creative organizations\n\nAbout You:\nYou have the ability to multi-task and properly execute multiple simultaneous assignments\nYou're a self-starter with a passion for driving business results and strong organizational skills\nWhile you like things to run on schedule, you're flexible enough to "roll with it" and have the willingness to work a flexible schedule, and occasional weekends and/or evenings\nYou have excellent written, oral, and team communication skills. You thrive on collaboration and are able to manage extremely complex systems with grace and gratitude.\nYou love learning, and it's one of the things you do to make yourself better every single day\nYou are comfortable taking action, making recommendations, and thinking strategically.\n\n\nThink you've got what it takes? Let's talk! Contact us at https://kaizenplatform.com/en/index.php/optimizers/ and we'll get you started.\n\n\nExtra tags: Website Optimization, Front-End Developer, Front-End Design, UX, UI, Conversion, Remote, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS \n\nPlease mention the words **PANIC CHANGE VIABLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, CSS, HTML, jQuery, Design, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, Mobile and Marketing jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n