At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the
world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the
company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana,
Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things
with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to
WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data,
delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the
dots. Diversity drives our vibe. We unite employees across 30+ countries
into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over
100 countries.
Swiftype is a growing team of
talented search engineers and experts with a range of experiences and
backgrounds. We’re looking for self-motivated and resourceful
individuals who will help us continue delivering exceptional service to
customers. As a Front End Web Developer at Swiftype, you will
collaborate closely with our Design and Engineering teams to bridge the
gap between visual design and implementation.
What You Bring to the Table:
- Excellent practical judgement. You should know how to effectively allocate your time when solving hard problems.
- Experience with modern JavaScript tooling like React, ES6, and TypeScript.
- Deep
knowledge of HTML and CSS (we use Sass). You should have experience
writing clean, semantic, and responsive code that works across popular
browsers and devices.
- Strong attention to detail. You will be responsible for pixel-perfect implementation of designs.
- Experience gathering requirements from design tools like Sketch, Figma, and InVision.
- Experience using browser tools to test, profile, and debug modern web applications.
- Experience using Git and working from the command line.
- Excellent communication skills.
Bonus Points
- A passion for user experience and crafting intuitive interactions on the web.
- Exposure to MVC frameworks, like Ruby on Rails and Django.
- Experience with DHTML, mouse trailers, and HotScripts.com strongly desired.
- Experience working with popular CMSes, like Wordpress and Craft.
- Experience working with REST/JSON APIs.
- Experience building animations in CSS and JavaScript.
If this sounds interesting, we would
love to hear from you. Please include whatever info you believe is
relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal
projects, etc.
Aditional Information
- Competitive pay, medical, dental, vision, disability, benefits
- Stock options
- Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices
- An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
- Passionate people building great products
- Distributed-first company with employees all over the world, some even fly south for the winter :)
Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles
of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all
applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin,
age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or
any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or
regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled
employees consistent with applicable law.