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Lead UX/UI/Front-End Engineer
To Apply: jobs+eng@panjiva.com
Date Posted: Monday August 30, 2010
Company: Panjiva, Inc.
Location: Cambridge, MA
Overview
Panjiva is a venture-backed startup
developing a next-generation information service for the millions of
buyers and suppliers in the global supply chain. Founded by MIT and
Harvard alumni and located in Cambridge, MA, Panjiva's technical team is
creating the infrastructure that will transform how people and
companies trade $10 trillion of goods each year across global borders.
We’re funded by one of the world's top venture capital firms and the
same angel investors that have backed Skype, AdMob, Posterous, and many
other startups.
Our technical challenges are numerous: processing large amounts of incredibly valuable, but incredibly dirty data from multilingual sources around the world, leveraging machine learning and NLP techniques to enrich our data collection, and making our findings available to customers via intuitive user interfaces that support interactive, real-time analysis of the global supply chain.
Our development environment is highly collaborative, where team members teach as much as they learn. Our small team of MIT Computer Science alumni cultivate a work environment where peers can appreciate and challenge the solutions you develop. At this early stage, there is a great opportunity for leadership in the shaping of Panjiva's core architecture and its software engineering processes. We’re based in the heart of Kendall Square, about 15 feet from the Red Line T stop.
Our technical challenges are numerous: processing large amounts of incredibly valuable, but incredibly dirty data from multilingual sources around the world, leveraging machine learning and NLP techniques to enrich our data collection, and making our findings available to customers via intuitive user interfaces that support interactive, real-time analysis of the global supply chain.
Our development environment is highly collaborative, where team members teach as much as they learn. Our small team of MIT Computer Science alumni cultivate a work environment where peers can appreciate and challenge the solutions you develop. At this early stage, there is a great opportunity for leadership in the shaping of Panjiva's core architecture and its software engineering processes. We’re based in the heart of Kendall Square, about 15 feet from the Red Line T stop.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an
exceptional lead front-end developer with a track record in building
sophisticated and highly usable user interfaces. We’re looking for a
true UX/UI master who can make a browser (all browsers, that is) do just
about anything. We’re looking for someone who really cares about web
standards and appreciates front-end hacks that reduce load times and
respect semantics. This a diverse role – you’ll be working on the
user-facing product, back end administrative interfaces, and on
marketing-related activities to help turn our significant traffic base
into increased engagement and revenue.
Experience
The number of years of professional experience you have isn't important to us
Skills
Expert in client-side technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
Experience with modern front end frameworks/libraries (jQuery,
Some programming experience in a dynamic language (e.g., Ruby, Python) or other scripting language
Good design sense; Illustrator or Photoshop skills
nice to have: Startup experience
nice to have: Experience with modern web frameworks (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Django)
nice to have: Expertise in Ruby / Ruby on Rails
nice to have: Open source contributions or side projects
nice to have: expertise in, and passion for, information access and visualization (Tufte fans would feel welcome here)
Education
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, HCI, or related field
Compensation
Compensation includes full time salary, generous equity compensation plan, and benefits.