About Quartz
Quartz is a digitally native news outlet launched by Atlantic Media in September 2012. It provides a 24/7 digital guide to the new global economy designed to serve business professionals who travel the world, are focused on international markets, and value critical thinking. Quartz is optimized for access on tablets and mobile devices, and is also easily accessible on computers. Free and built for social distribution with no pay walls, registration walls, or app downloads, Quartz is ad-supported and can be accessed simply at qz.com.
Job Description
Quartz (http://qz.com), a recently launched global business news site from Atlantic Media, is seeking an experienced Web Applications Developer. You will work with other developers on a frontend unlike any other news site - one that places emphasis on the reading experience, seamless interaction, and values content over traditional business needs.
This is an enormous opportunity to shape the news reading experience and help redefine the traditional “news site” as “news application”.
To do this you should be a talented and experienced mobile web app developer with expertise in UI development. You should have strong technical knowledge in current web development and mobile technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Words like Backbone, Modernizer, Github should resonate with you. When people talk about CSS3 you know which features are currently hardware accelerated and not. In terms of Mobile Safari you should know why “position: fixed” might have been a big deal for some before iOS5. You should love creating things and take great personal pride in building beautiful and functional user interfaces.
This role is a hands-on position and you will be working closely with other developers and editorial. There is the opportunity to work on a large number of fun and challenging problems as the site and team grow.
We also expect a solid background in the fundamentals of software development and have a deep understanding of best practices in mobile and website development, including cross-browser compatibility, performance tuning of UI/JavaScript applications, and user experience.
The position is based out of our new Soho office in NYC.
Compensation: commensurate with experience, but highly competitive