Jobs at Grist
Grist is hiring:
(We've filled our summer intern positions.)
Grist seeks a skilled, self-directed web developer with the ability to develop and maintain web applications built with PHP5, CodeIgniter, ExpressionEngine and other web technologies. As the country's leading online source of environmental news and analysis, Grist informs, inspires, and links America's next generation of green citizens. Our work has garnered many awards and frequent citations in major media including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, National Public Radio, and the London Independent.
Job description:
The web developer is the primary development resource on Grist’s technology team. He or she works in a self-directed and focused way to improve the quality, sustainability and feature-richness of Grist’s entire web experience. As a whole, the technology team develops and maintains Grist’s interactive platform, integrates Grist’s services with a variety of other web platforms and technologies, participates in the development of interactive features and actively solves technical problems as they arise. The team strives to accomplish this work using practices that are agile, transparent, responsive, quality-centric and standards-based.
Responsibilities:
- Develop new features and fix defects in Grist’s ExpressionEngine-based site and CMS, including custom ExpressionEngine add-ons
- Develop new features and fix defects in Grist’s CodeIgniter-based services architecture
- Integrate existing Grist products and platforms with third party products and services using a variety of APIs
- Actively participate in Grist’s development process, including close collaboration with internal testing resources, participation in stand-ups and coordination of releases
- Participate in the monitoring and troubleshooting of Grist’s managed infrastructure. This may include minor on-call duty
- Participate with Grist-wide teams on short-cycle, editorial development projects such as visualizations, interactives and widgets
- Participate in new Grist technology initiatives including social network and mobile device application development
Qualifications:
- Required: 2+ years of experience with PHP5 development. A commitment to clean, documented code
- Required: Experience working in and administering a LAMP environment, including basic Apache2 administration, and facility with mysql including a basic understanding of query optimization
- Required: Strong communication and problem solving skills and an independent, self-directed work style
- Required: A sense of humor (seriously)
- Preferred: Experience with ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter development, especially ExpressionEngine add-on development
- Preferred: Experience implementing third party APIs
- Preferred: Experience with any of: XHTML, advanced CSS, JavaScript (especially an AJAX framework such as JQuery), XML/RSS
- Preferred: Experience with a versioning tool such as subversion
- Preferred: Basic knowledge of Tomcat, and in particular SOLR administration and tuning
- Preferred: An active user of social networking applications and tools
In addition, a really awesome candidate might have experience with one or more of the following:
- Experience with Flash, especially Flex. Experience with data visualization or interactive data programming. Experience with Processing or another visualization environment
- Web development for mobile devices, IPhone ap. experience, Facebook Application development, any general social platform integration experience
- Experience with virtualized server architectures
Note to new CS and related technical graduates: you are encouraged to apply if you meet most of the technical requirements above.
To apply: please send us a cover letter and resume. We are looking for thoughtful, personalized cover letters that demonstrate applicants' qualifications and work style. Send email to jobs@grist.org with an inline or standard format (doc, rtf, txt) cover/resume; please put "Web Developer" in the subject line.
Electronic communications are preferred, but you may also mail or fax materials to:
Grist
710 Second Ave., Suite 860
Seattle, WA 98104
fax: 253.423.6487
No phone calls, please.
Salary DOE; good benefits, a delightful workplace, and the opportunity to play an important role in an organization dedicated to the issue of climate change. Grist is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on anything except how dang good you are. People of color and individuals from other underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Background on Grist:
With a fresh spin on environmental news and views, Grist informs, inspires, and links America's next generation of green citizens. Founded in April 1999, Grist has developed the most recognizable voice in environmental journalism: funny, opinionated, and intelligent. Grist offers in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinions, and practical advice -- all tailored to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its users to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions.
Each month, Grist reaches more than 800,000 unique individuals through its website, emails, and RSS feeds, and it has enjoyed particular success among readers in their 20s and 30s. Through partnerships with major media outlets such as MSN, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and Yahoo!, Grist is reaching an even broader audience that extends into the millions. Grist has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, and dozens of other major media outlets worldwide, and was recently ranked as a top green website by both Time and The Guardian of London.