Biff Labs: Web Application Engineer

Location: Cambridge, MA
URL: http://bifflabs.com

Biff Labs is looking for someone who loves shipping elegant web interfaces that are easy to use and always responsive. You are someone who is excited about UX and interface design and you have expertise writing Javascript and HTML/CSS. You'll work closely with our product and visual design teams to rapidly design, prototype, and ship features in customer-facing web products and internal tools. As a member of the engineering team, you'll also be working closely with our platform engineers to translate our backend services into a cohesive set of client APIs and templates to be consumed by a wide variety of browsers and devices. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced and demanding development environment, be able to pick up new technologies and languages quickly, and have experience with tools such as Git and Unix scripting.

Responsibilities:

• Implement front-end designs for public and internal web applications using HTML/CSS, Javascript, and Python
• Efficiently plan, implement, and test new features with minimal supervision
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from, visual and product designers and back-end engineers
• Promptly fix bugs and troubleshoot problems across the platform

Skills:

• Deep expertise with Javascript, jQuery, Ajax, and HTML/CSS
• Excellent with Python and Java
• Disciplined approach to testing
• Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, and cross-browser compatibility
• Good understanding of web technologies and familiarity with deploying on Unix/Linux systems
• Familiarity with visual design tools
• Comfortable in a demanding work environment
• Strong verbal and written communication

Background:

• 3+ years experience building and shipping consumer or enterprise products for the web
• A degree in a technology-related field, or relevant experience

About Biff Labs:

Biff Labs is an early-stage startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts building products that weave the online social world together with the world around you. Our mission is to make social content more discoverable, relevant, and useful by organizing the deluge of information in the social web and delivering beautiful, new experiences.

We are a small, ambitious company of smart people who challenge each other to come up with elegant solutions to wildly complicated problems. Few people in the world have worked with the full Facebook and Twitter firehoses, but several of our engineers have. Not many people have built products launched by Mark Zuckerberg, but members of our product team have. Our engineers are building out infrastructure to ingest and organize massive amounts of social content while our product and visual design teams craft a beautiful, intuitive experience for users. Together, we’re inventing technologies that sift the social corpus to present the best content to the right person at the proper time and place. It is an enormous challenge and we need team members to contribute to all aspects of our work and have a large impact on our success. Our working environment is fast-paced and highly demanding but we're fun-loving and truly excited to be working on something great. We are located in Central Square, are supported by top-tier investors, and offer competitive salaries and benefits packages.

http://bifflabs.com @bifflabs

To apply: Send your resume to jobs@bifflabs.com or apply online at http://bifflabs.theresumator.com/