Buddy is looking for an outstanding frontend engineer to take our web-based sites to the next level. Here at Buddy, we have several web properties that we maintain: a portal for our developer customers (dev.buddy.com), a portal for our analytics customers (a.buddy.com), and our main website (buddy.com).
We aspire for all of these to be beautiful, engaging, and consistent. Your job would be to take these sites to the next level by:
- Unifying code, templates, and assets that drive the sites. The sites are currently built using Backbone.js talking to REST endpoints.
- Making the sites better, more fun, and more interactive. We want to deliver an excellent UX product that runs well in all modern browsers.
- Charting the roadmap for our web presence going forward. We’d like you to help decide what the sites should do, what they should look like, and how to get there.
Ideally, you’ll be able to do some basic backend work as well to expose and shape the data for the sites.
Currently In Use at Buddy
Our public web properties (Dev Portal and Analytics Portal) are currently using jQuery, Bootstrap, and Backbone.js. Most of the interaction is done client side. The sites themselves are built using ASP.NET MVC, which essentially handles authentication and generating basic site templates. For the majority of the interactions, the MVC code exposes REST endpoints that serve data to the client layer via Backbone.js models, with the data being served from SQL. In addition, we have an internal CMS-like-thing custom designed for managing our docs across HTTP/iOS/Android/etc. This is written in node.js and backed by MongoDB.