NowPublic was recently acquired by the Clarity Digital Group which owns and operates Examiner.com the source for local news and information in North America. Over the next 6-8 months we'll be migrating Examiner.com, a top 60 website, to the NowPublic Drupal based Platform creating one of the largest drupal sites on the planet. We need your help!

Front-end position: As User Interface Engineer, you 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 and performant web pages using the latest front web technologies with pixel perfect attention to detail 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.

Beyond your technical skills, 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 self-starter attitude that will enable you to hit the ground running and start contributing right away.

Back-end position: As a Developer, you will also be responsible for participating in the design, development, implementation, testing, quality assurance, and maintenance of all layers and aspects of our products and systems. This position has significant hands-on coding responsibilities, and requires a strong background in computer science and web development with knowledge of the full software development life cycle.

Additionally, the position requires an individual capable of forward-thinking, particularly with respect to performance and scaling requirements. Experience with large scale websites and migrating legacy website management systems to Drupal would be an advantage, as would experience working with C++.

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PLEASE CONTACT JOBS@NOWPUBLIC.COM IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING.

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The NowPublic.com development is highly distributed with team members all over the world - we believe in hiring the best talent available, and often this means being flexible wrt location. That said, we need at least one front end developer in Vancouver, BC Canada where we have an office. We also have offices in New York City and Denver, Colorado. Outside of Vancouver, almost everyone telecommutes.

About NowPublic.com

NowPublic is a crowd-sourced, participatory news network that mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In its short history, the company has become the largest news organization of its kind with contributing reporters in more than 6,000 cities and 160 countries. The Guardian has named NowPublic.com one of the top five most useful news sites on the Web and Time Magazine named it one of the Top 50 Websites for 2007. The company has received funding from Rho Ventures, Rho Canada, Brightspark, GrowthWorks and members of the New York Angels. The recent acquisition of NowPublic by Examiner.com opens up a wealth of unprecedented opportunities for the company and individuals selected to work with us. NowPublic employs some of the top Drupal talent including Karoly Negyesi (chx), Rok Zlender and Konstantin Kaefer (kkaefer). Dries Buytaert, the founder and project lead of Drupal, is an advisor to the company.

About Examiner.com

Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com serves 109 markets across the country and is the insider source for everything local. Examiner.com’s content is contributed by Examiners; passionate, informed, and knowledgeable local influencers. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver-based investment company with a broad array of assets in print and digital media; live sports and entertainment; hospitality; film production and exhibition; wind energy development and transmission; as well as ranching and oil/gas exploration. For more information, visit Examiner.com.