Software Engineer, Front-End (Entry Level)

New CS grad? Have a different degree and took a coding bootcamp? This is the opportunity for you!

CreativeLive is looking for talented entry-level front-end developers to join our growing technical team in our San Francisco office. You will be helping forge a new frontier in interactive online education, leveraging and contributing to open source technology.

Our entry-level roles are three month contract-to-hire positions where you will get a deep introduction to our platform, with the intent of quickly ramping you up to shipping user-facing features. After successfully completing the initial contract, you’ll become a full-time engineer on one of our several teams! At this time, we can only offer this opportunity to applicants local to our San Francisco office.

Front-End development isn’t just about writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; it’s about bringing a beautiful and intuitive experience to users across devices. If you care deeply about design, user experience, and beautiful code, then you might find a home here at CreativeLive.

Along with your fellow engineers, you’ll be working on an integrated product team to continuously improve the CreativeLive site and internal tools by

• prototyping and testing new experiences
• implementing new and enhanced site features
• iterating on designs based on data analysis and A/B testing
• actively contributing to refining our Agile development processes

Some of the things that would make you a great fit for our team:

• You embody creativity, positivity, and exploration, and are inspired by our mission.
• You care deeply about code quality, performance and execution.
• You understand that software engineering is a team sport.
• You love learning and sharing what you’ve learned.

What we’re looking for:

• A passion for beautiful user experience and design.
• Experience writing non-trivial applications in Javascript.
• Excellent HTML/CSS skills and ability to write solid CSS in Less.
• A good understanding of how to create responsive websites.
• Familiarity with Node.js and the common frameworks and npm modules.
• An active portfolio site and/or Github account, showcasing several of your own projects.
• Ability to extract the assets you need from Photoshop files.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Angular
• Comfort navigating Unix and Linux
• UI motion design