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About Work Market, Inc.
Work Market is a new venture, backed by Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. We are building a modular web platform, designed to power anyone or any business to efficiently deliver and manage labor and services. WM was founded by Jeffrey Leventhal, who previously founded the on-site services marketplace OnForce.com.

Our aspirations are grand, and we have lots to do to win at this and change the world with our labor platform. Here is our commitment to you: You will be surrounded by ambitious, super smart people who like to push the envelope with technology. We’re building stuff that simply has not been built before. In return, we ask that: You be in touch with the real world; you think, live and breathe like a user of our system. We only do well if we develop the best user experiences possible. Applications that touch people as deeply as the stuff we build is as much art as it is science. We’re working hard to build the best technology team ever assembled. So…best team, EVERY labor engagement in one platform – sound crazy? Still interested? Read on…

Responsibilities:

• Designs, creates, and develops front end implementations using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Works closely with front end PHP developers to integrate page design with front end frameworks
• Optimizes front end performance using page weight minimization techniques
• Participates in code review sessions

• Assists other front end developers with issues related to design, fit and finish and overall aesthetics of front end web pages

Requirements:

• 5+​ years building front-end interfaces for large, complex websites
• Fluent in HTML5 and CSS3 (as well as fluency with previous versions of web standards)
• Excellent UI/User Interface skills
• Experience developing and implementing CMS systems
• Deep experience with utilizing jQuery for AJAX, data validation and presentation
• Deep experience coding with progressive enhancement techniques for maintaining cross-browser compatibility (multiple versions of Safari, Firefox, Chrome and IE)
• Well versed in front end optimization
• Comfortable working in a team environment
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, ability to work in fast paced and evolving environment

• Ability to learn and stay up to date on new technologies and trends

Technical Skills – Required:

• (X)HTML /​ CSS (5+ years)
• AJAX (5+ years)
• JavaScript, jQuery (5+ years)
• Photoshop or similar graphic design tool (5+ years)
• LAMP development (3+ years)
• Experience consuming APIs (2+ years)
• Experience with versioning systems such as SVN or Git (3+ years)

• Experience with MVC frameworks such as Zendframework, Code Igniter, Kohaha (3+ years)

Our Process
You should expect to meet lots of people on our team during the interview process. Feel free to show off why you’re great. Bring more than just tight code. Tricks? Poetry? Music? Juggling? Well-rounded, interesting and entertaining people are a plus. Start up experience? Been through Plan A, B and C? Did you handle this well? You must be hardworking, easygoing, able to articulate concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences, and have labor/services/the social web/open source in your DNA!

High maintenance people need not apply; if you are accustomed to (or plan on demanding) a laptop, mobile phone plan or shoes for your new job, we are probably not the place for you. Lastly, if you’re the person that is standing outside your building smoking a few times a day, you’re probably not the right person either…

Legal Stuff
Work Market, Inc., is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. To qualify, an applicant must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident alien (“green card holder”), temporary resident alien, refugee or asylee. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to contact candidates whose qualifications most closely match the position requirements.