Front-End Engineer - SF - Change.org - United States

Change.org is the world’s largest technology platform for social change. Our goal is to empower people everywhere to start campaigns around the issues they care about, mobilize others, and work with decision makers to drive solutions.

We’re also an innovative business – a “social enterprise” and a certified B Corporation, with a business model designed to support positive social impact (more about B Corps: www.bcorporation.net).

Over 30 million users have signed winning petitions, including strengthening hate crime legislation in South Africa; fighting corruption in Indonesia, Italy, and Brazil; ending the ban on gay Boy Scouts in the United States, and big wins for women’s rights in India. And we’re just getting started. Here’s a small snapshot of what was changed last year: www.change.org/2014

We love serving our incredible users, and we love our staff too. We show it with very competitive salaries, five weeks of vacation, robust maternity and parental leave, an amazing culture, free language training (if you want it), and a high impact, low-ego team that can’t wait to learn from you and teach you what they know. Here’s what you’ll do as part of our team:

be part of a small, close-knit team

work at the bleeding edge of frontend development (isomorphic Javascript framework on Node using Rails APIs)

develop in a Mac OS X environment

work in an agile environment (TDD, pairing, short release cycles)

work closely with our designers to implement their interaction designs in code, in a fast-feedback, iterative fashion

contribute to our bottom line through rigorous analytics and A/B testing

proactively refactor the codebase to improve its quality and performance

use your skills to make the world better And here are the skills & experience we hope you have:

deep experience of frontend technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, templating systems, Node.js, Backbone) in the context of a large consumer-facing web sites

write test-driven JavaScript using industry-standard tools and frameworks

rewritten code to help yourself sleep better at night

ability to navigate and grok an existing, large code base

proficiency with Git and Unix command line

The position is located in San Francisco.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

We are working for a world where no one is powerless, and where creating change is a part of everyday life. We’re just getting started, and we hope you’ll join us.