{"id":3593,"date":"2009-07-01T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:26","slug":"newsvine-is-looking-for-a-web-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2009\/07\/newsvine-is-looking-for-a-web-developer","title":{"rendered":"Newsvine is looking for a web developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no better place to be during an economic downturn than a solid, profitable company with a long track record of success.  Come to think of it, there&#8217;s no better place to be during an economic boom than that sort of place either.  Msnbc.com, proud parent of Newsvine, is just that sort of place.  The most visited news site in the United States for the past 12 months and running, msnbc.com is hitting on all cylinders and is expanding the Newsvine team by one talented web developer.<\/p>\n<p>As co-founder and CEO of Newsvine, I can tell you that this is a great place to work and retains the best aspects of a startup atmosphere while inheriting the equally great aspects of working for an established media organization like msnbc.com.  If you&#8217;re interested in joining the crew, please read the job description below and send your stuff to <a href=\"mailto:msnbcjobs@msnbc.com\">msnbcjobs@msnbc.com<\/a>. One caveat, however: We are specifically looking for someone who is passionate about writing code.  Javascript, PHP, HTML, etc.  This is not a design position and the only UI work involved will be on the implementation side, from a coding perspective.<\/p>\n<h3>Job description<\/h3>\n<p>The Newsvine Team is looking for an experienced, self-motivated, and passionate front-end developer to join us in building products and services on the Newsvine platform. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop site features and functionality in a multi-tier web environment using PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and the YUI JavaScript library. Additional responsibilities include daily site support and maintenance. The ideal candidate is able to work on small teams under tight deadlines with little supervision. A computer science degree or equivalent is a plus, but experience, skill, and attention to detail are more important.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal candidate will have a strong command of the following knowledge areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>X\/HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>PHP or similar scripting language<\/li>\n<li>Mastery of web standards and cross-browser compatibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preferable Job Qualifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience working on large-scale, high-availability web sites<\/li>\n<li>Successful industry experience using latest DHTML and ajax technologies<\/li>\n<li>Experience with SQL and relational database implementations serving as the backend to production web applications<\/li>\n<li>Experience with, or an interest in, working with the YUI JavaScript library<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with Subversion a plus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no better place to be during an economic downturn than a solid, profitable company with a long track record of success. Come to think of it, there&#8217;s no better place to be during an economic boom than that sort of place either. Msnbc.com, proud parent of Newsvine, is just that sort of place. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}