Front End Developer

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Front-End Developer
Location: Remote, USA

We are an experience design company that connects people, products, and brands in powerful ways. Our small but growing team of designers, developers, producers, strategists, and content creators is based in Culver City, California. We believe in the power of storytelling, human-centric design, and the intersection of creativity with code to further humanity's relationship with technology. If you're the kind of person who obsesses over details, thrives in a collaborative environment, and jumps at the opportunity to take on new challenges, Left Field Labs may be the place for you.

Position Summary

Left Field Labs is seeking a talented temporary Front-end Developer to join our remote team. You will work alongside a group of dedicated and multi-disciplined technologists and designers to bring high quality solutions to market. We count on our developers to write elegant and well-documented code, with a strict eye towards separation of concerns and maintainability. Our developers are creatives, we expect an eye for design, collaboration on interactions, and understanding of overall user experience when building our software.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining frontend code for multiple websites for one of our large clients. This means writing frontend code using a variety of web technologies, as well as other development tasks like documentation and taking part in code reviews
• Being an active part of a small team that includes developers, designers and a producer all staying in touch over chat, video calls, and git pull requests
• Learning new and existing technologies, both on your own and from more experienced developers on the team
• Contribute to documentation on projects (such as Technical Design Documents) and for department knowledge sharing

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience writing HTML, CSS and vanilla Javascript for production-ready websites, along with some experience using modern Javascript frameworks like React, Angular, Vue or similar
• 3 years of professional software development experience
• UI design and interactions for web applications
• Creating responsive front-end using CSS tools like flexbox and grid
• Know your way around Git, the Mac/Linux command line, and npm
• Working collaboratively on a development team using tools like JIRA and Git
• Open minded with a strong interest in learning and using web technology
• Self-starter who values collaboration, communication and is ready to work on a great team

Nice to have:

• Additional Javascript frameworks like PIXI.js, Three.js, WebGL, Web Audio
• CSS animations
• Firebase, especially Firestore and Firebase Authentication
• Python, Ruby or Node backend experience

Education
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Left Field Labs is an equal opportunity employer.  

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Left Field Labs is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and team members regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00). Left Field Labs makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled team members.