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Senior Frontend Engineer - REMOTE (UTC to UTC-8), San Francisco, Portland, Dublin We're one of the oldest PaaS's out there, with support for PHP/Ruby/node.js on AWS. As a Frontend Engineer, you'll be working on our brand new UI - a single-page angular.js app. The UI is served up by a lightweight node.js server that proxies to our core ruby api. We unit test with jasmine, and run our end-to-end tests in protractor. Through our "eybot" on slackhq, we deploy green CI builds to production multiple times a day. The frontend engineering team at Engine Yard consists of 3 UI designers and 4 engineers (including myself). We're spread out across 8 timezones (Dublin through San Francisco), so experience working in a distributed team is key. You will: * Write modern JavaScript for modern browsers * Have a significant influence on the UI architecture * Work with smart people every day * Be an integral part of a new era in an established startup You might: * Rewrite our trial experience so it doesn't suck as much * Build support for customers to deploy docker containers * Convert the UI to CommonJS modules via browserify * Create near-realtime visualizations for server monitoring * Integrate 6to5 into our build system so we can use ES6 * Learn to homebrew, or at least talk about how you want to You'll get: * Competitive salary * Full medical, dental and vision benefits * 25 paid days off per year (15 PTO, 2 floating, 8 holidays) * 401(k) * We take care of your phone bill * Paid travel to conferences * Top of the line Macbook Pro Must haves (seriously, these are essential filters): * A string of successful projects and/or positions in your wake * Significant experience building complex client-side applications in JavaScript, preferably with angular.js * Experience working in a distributed team * An impulse to write tests for everything you build, sometimes before you build it * A fantastic sense of sarcasm * Ability to travel occasionally (at least once or twice a year) * Somewhere between UTC and UTC-8 Great to have: * Somewhere between UTC-5 and UTC-8 * Thorough understanding of git * Experience building REST apis * Experience with multiple languages (and an understanding of their tradeoffs) * Experience with agile development * Previously worked at a startup If you're interested and meet all the "must haves", shoot me an email at cewing@engineyard.com