Lead Front-end Web Developer (JavaScript)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Full Time
Experience: Mid Level (2 to 6 years)
Disqus is hiring an experienced engineer to work on the front-end development across all components and features of Disqus.
Responsibilities and Skills
- Lead front-end and JavaScript development across all features on Disqus
- Fast-paced environment with the right balance of quick, iterative development versus more deliberate, smart architecting.
- You will work with both the website application and the embedded comment system (widget-like applications).
- Design and implement features which will be used by millions of people on release.
- Develop heavily with raw JavaScript in the embedded scripts, which are the most trafficked part of Disqus.
- Work heavily with cross-domain issues and take advantage of the newest web technologies (e.g. HTML5), or bend existing web technologies to accomplish new things.
- Develop methods to improve performance across all combinations of browsers and platforms.
- Responsible for writing clean, semantic HTML and CSS.
About You
- JavaScript expert. You know the ins and outs of JavaScript and can develop very interesting things. Libraries such as jQuery and Prototype are fun to use, but you don't need them.
- Very experienced with common and obscure cross-browser and cross-domain issues, hacks, and solutions.
- Know HTML and CSS very well. You know when to separate layout from style and logic.
- Familiar with HTML templating systems such as Django, Cheetah, CakePHP.
- Skilled with UI and UX design. Graphic/art design is not required but is a plus.
- Understand user behavior and application flow. You make applications that are fun to use and leave people happy.
- You are familiar and can work with Python and Django.
- You don't indiscriminately use XMLHTTPRequest every chance you get.
About Us
Disqus is a web service that builds and connects communities through a networked comment system. Hundreds of thousands of websites rely on Disqus to power their discussions, and millions of people regularly use the comment system in discussions all over the web. Disqus is the leading comment system, reaching nearly 80 million unique people per month.
Our company is a growing startup based in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We are a small, tech-heavy team focused on building powerful, versatile software which perform and scale well, while being a joy to use and accessible to everyone.
Disqus was founded in 2007 and is backed by investors Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator.
