Front End Engineer at Safari Books Online (San Francisco, CA) (allows remote)
Job Description
Safari Books Online is looking for a Front End Engineer to be part of a passionate team of software engineers and designers. Responsibilities will include implementing the front-end of our web-based reading and learning products utilizing HTML5 and RESTful JSON APIs, as well as help discover, prototype, and recommend brand-new features and have significant ownership of our JavaScript architecture and infrastructure.
Our engineering team is both distributed and collaborative, which means a better workplace if you’re independent and self-motivated. The best candidates will demonstrate a deep understanding of all aspects of front-end development, including usability, progressive enhancement, SEO, analytics, and delighting the user while maintaining security, cross-platform/browser compliance, accessibility, scalability and performance standards.
Skills Requirements
About Safari Books Online
As a joint venture between O'Reilly Media and Pearson Technology Group, Safari Books Online is at the forefront of providing access to a vast library of technology references, enabling hundreds of thousands of our peers and co-workers to be better at their craft.
If you want an idea of what you'll be working on, we invite you to visit and sign up for a free trial of Safari Flow
We value your time and attention. We don’t ask you to give up your life for your job, and we try not to waste your time with unnecessary overhead.
We’re proud of a proven business model built on real technical learning and professional development. Technologists use our products to make the web better every day.
We’re committed to helping our employees truly broaden their talents and ambitions. We encourage managers to learn Github and developers to understand our PL.
Joel Test score: 12 out of 12
The Joel Test is a twelve-question measure of the quality of a software team.
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
How to apply
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