Employer: NowPublic Technologies Inc.
Type: Full-Time
Start Date: Immediate

NowPublic is a crowd-sourced, participatory news network that mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In just over 12 months, the company has become the largest news organization of its kind with over 130,000 reporters in over 196 countries.

In 2007 the Guardian named NowPublic one of the top five most useful news sites on the Web, TIME magazine named NowPublic one of the top 50 sites on the web, and Red Herring named us one of the hottest 10 startups in Canada.

NowPublic runs Drupal 5.x and employs some of the top Drupal talent including Karoly Negyesi (chx), Konstantin Kaefer (kkaefer), and Kevin Hemenway (Morbus Iff). Dries Buytaert, the founder and project lead of Drupal, is an advisor to the company.

The company has received funding from RHO Ventures, Brightspark, GrowthWorks, and members of the New York Angels.

Job Description
NowPublic.com is currently looking for a talented and experienced User Interface Engineer to lead our front end development. The User Interface Engineer will be involved in all phases of UI development from requirement analysis through design, development, testing, final delivery and maintenance. You will interact with the entire team from Product Managers to Designers and Developers, as well as End Users to provide ongoing improvements to the user experience, performance, and maintainability of the site.

You are responsible for translating visual designs into standards-compliant web pages using the latest front web technologies and integrating these components with our Drupal based platform. You will be relied upon as the guru or ‘go to’ person for all things front end, so this position requires mastery of rich internet application development techniques, and the desire to evangelize best practices to our team of software engineers.

This is a technical / development role, but you need to possess a keen eye for IA, design, and usability. You need to be a strong conceptual thinker and creative problem solver who understands and can articulate what makes sites successful along with the skills and a self-starter attitude that will enable you to hit the ground running and start contributing right away.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Director of Development. To apply please send your resume, references, and samples of your work.

Responsibilities
- Transform mockups (comps) into hand coded accessible and standards-compliant templates that display correctly in all modern browsers.
- Integrate your templates with our Drupal 5 based platform.
- Quality Assurance and Testing.
- Help develop and maintain coding standards and best practices, and provide suggestions for application and process improvement.
- Use the NowPublic web site, tools, and systems, contributing to the community and providing feedback on the workflow and processes.
- Other duties as assigned.

Experience
- Extensive experience with the following technologies: CSS, advanced JavaScript, JQuery, etc. all the Web 2.0 design techniques and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Knowledge of the latest web trends, particularly concerning communities, social networks, and personal publishing.
- Exceptional creative problem solving and analysis capabilities, pixel perfect attention to detail.
- Ability to work under tight schedules across multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Anticipated compensation package includes:
- Salary commensurate with experience + benefits
- Eligible for NowPublic stock option program
- Eligible for NowPublic bonus program.