Uncorked Studios needs you! We are growing our development team and are looking for a skilled Front End contractor who would be interested in a full-time position in the longer term.
Our ideal candidate takes multiple approaches to problems, provides insightful solutions, and can contribute both expertise and enthusiasm to any project. We will count on you to be productive, easy to work with, thorough, and confident.
Principals only. No recruiters, staffing, or consulting firms.
First and foremost you should be prepared to learn what you don’t know, since we’re always tackling new problems. Below, we list out some languages, technologies, and platforms that are already part of our domain, so please let us know where you stand with these, and feel free to let us know what else you’re in to because, well, you’re hopefully a person.
Priority Skills:
Nice-to-haves:
Ideal candidate has a 4 year CS or Engineering degree and several years of coding experience, but passion and ability matter far more than degrees and diplomas. Role is onsite in Portland, Oregon.
Uncorked Studios is a digital product agency located in Portland, Oregon.
Concepting and building across multiple systems and platforms, our work focuses on connecting digital environments and the physical world.
http://www.uncorkedstudios.com
You should be self-driven to learn, grow, and wrangle problems to the ground with technical expertise. Not only can you write code, but you are also adept at interpreting visual designs and assets from the design team and able to provide feedback to designers.
Our ideal candidate takes multiple approaches to problems, provides insightful solutions, and can contribute both expertise and enthusiasm to any project. We will count on you to be productive, easy to work with, thorough, and confident.
When applying, be sure to include links or examples so that we can check out your previous work.
Principals only. No recruiters, staffing, or consulting firms.
Skills & Requirements
First and foremost you should be prepared to learn what you don’t know, since we’re always tackling new problems. Below, we list out some languages, technologies, and platforms that are already part of our domain, so please let us know where you stand with these, and feel free to let us know what else you’re in to because, well, you’re hopefully a person.
Priority Skills:
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 including semantic markup.
- Responsive layouts and cross-browser troubleshooting.
- Great at writing code that performs on modern browsers (60fps).
- Good grasp of OOP principles.
- Familiarity with jQuery and similar JS frameworks and an understanding of when and where not to use them.
- Experience with at least one JS based MV* framework - Angular.js, Ember, Backbone.js, Meteor, and/or others.
- Experience working with RESTful APIs.
- Experience with Git.
- Familiarity with Sass/LESS, Bower and Grunt.
- Keep up with the latest front-end trends and techniques.
Nice-to-haves:
- Server-side dev experience (node.js, Python with Flask/Django)
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
- AWS
- D3js and HTML5 Canvas
- Mobile development experience
Ideal candidate has a 4 year CS or Engineering degree and several years of coding experience, but passion and ability matter far more than degrees and diplomas. Role is onsite in Portland, Oregon.
Why We Love Working Here
- Friendly and challenging environment that supports and encourages skill growth.
- Autonomy. We trust your work and don’t like micromanaging.
- Relaxed office space.
- Biweekly Show and Tell gatherings to share some beers and stories about what we've been working on.
- Diversity in our projects. What you’re working on and the tools you’re using are always changing.
About Uncorked Studios
Uncorked Studios is a digital product agency located in Portland, Oregon.
Concepting and building across multiple systems and platforms, our work focuses on connecting digital environments and the physical world.
Whether it’s identifying product vision through research and strategy, or realizing that vision through design, development, and prototyping, our focus is creating products people love to use.
http://www.uncorkedstudios.com