Who We Are: VerticalResponse, Inc is a leading provider of self-service email and direct mail solutions. We’ve been recognized as one of the top 100 best places to work in the bay area and top 100 fastest growing businesses in San Francisco (SF Biz Times) as well as one of the top 500 fastest growing businesses in the country (Inc.com). Over the past 5 years we have helped thousands of small businesses look like giants with easy-to-use and affordable marketing tools and we’re looking to extend our rapid growth in 2009 and beyond.
Our Culture: “Work hard, play hard” sounds so cliché but it’s really the best way to describe VR. To say we’re passionate about helping small businesses grow is an understatement and to say we take ourselves too seriously along the way is an overstatement. Our employees thrive on challenges and we celebrate our hard-won accomplishments with a weekly libation. You will usually see us, including our CEO, in our jeans and with our nose to the stone.
About the Position: We are looking to add a web UI designer to our rapidly growing engineering team. Candidates for this position should have a minimum of 2 years of web UI development experience including Ruby on Rails, Prototype.js and Web Services.
The Web Interface Developer will be a member of the front-end development team and will work closely with the both the product management and engineering teams to build leading-edge dynamic and standards compliant user interfaces that can appeal to a wide spectrum of end users. The person filling this position will also work with customers and other employees to perform usability testing of various designs from concept through beta testing and to the final production release.
This is a great position for someone who is passionate about usability, making complex functionality simple and who loves to see their work being used by a large number of people.
Qualifications Include:
* Proficient in Ruby on Rails framework
* Working knowledge of Prototype.js a must
* Proficient in implementing RPC-based and/or RESTful Web Services
* Ability to produce standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code
* Proficient in designing and implementing AJAX technologies
* Extensive background in Web Interface Design and evaluating User Experience
* Designing interface elements in Adobe Photoshop
* Familiar with a Linux development environment
* Must be an energetic "self-starter" with the ability to work independently and within a team with strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills
* Must pay attention to detail and history of meeting deadlines
* Has lots of hard-earned (and correct) ideas about how to develop web applications the right way
* Wants to learn, obsess, and teach others about cool technical stuff
* Portfolio of previous work strongly encouraged
* Sense of humor is essential
Pluses for candidates who have prior experience with:
* Working under constraints of legacy systems, refactoring and/or rewriting old code in an incremental fashion
* RPM management
* Previous experience working in an agile development environment
* Maintaining or following a style guide
Responsibilities Include:
* Work with product management and other engineers in an agile environment to create consistent and compelling user interfaces
* Create interfaces to the VR RESTful and SOAP APIs
* Maintain and update the VR UI style guide
* Conduct usability testing with employees and customers
* Use subversion source control software
* Create and maintain RPM spec files in addition to building and deployment of RPMs
* Deploy software releases to QA, Staging and Production environments
* Work with the QA engineers to develop test cases and ensure that UI designs support test automation
* Share information with other employees via the company Wiki and present to the engineering team and others
* Other duties as assigned
To Apply:
* Send a copy of your resume
* No phone calls please
This position reports to the Engineering Manger in San Francisco, but works closely with and under the direction of the UI Lead Engineer.
