About the Company:
Eventful is a leading digital service connecting consumers with entertainment and live events. Over 15 million people rely on Eventful every week to find out what's happening and decide what to do; from movies, concerts and sports to family fun and nightlife. With a comprehensive movie showtimes section and over 4 million local events to enjoy, Eventful provides the world's most comprehensive selection of local entertainment content. Eventful serves its users across multiple platforms including online, iPhone and email programs, all of which deliver highly personalized content to each user.
Eventful's unique Demand it! service empowers fans to influence the content and location of entertainment and live events. Over 100,000 musicians, comedians, film makers, politicians and other performers use Demand it! to engage with millions of their fans and supporters to find out where they are in Demand and make informed decisions about where to appear.
Eventful works closely with partners in the entertainment and music industries to design and execute powerful social media marketing campaigns which engage consumers, generate critical data regarding local demand, drive awareness and generate ticket sales for movies, concerts, family shows and other live events.
Eventful's community of nearly 15 million registered members use Eventful to discover, promote, share and create events. Users also engage in Eventful's social fabric to share events with their friends, review films and events and meet others with shared interests.
Eventful.com is built upon a unique, open platform that enables partners and web applications to leverage Eventful's data, features and functionality via the Eventful API. Over 2,000 partners license Eventful's content and platform to power local entertainment content across online, mobile, email and digital signage platforms.
Entertainment properties and media partners, including movie studios and concert promoters as well as hospitality and CPG marketers, tap Eventful to reach young, active consumers who are in the midst of deciding how to spend their disposable income.
Eventful was founded in 2004 and is based in San Diego, California. Eventful investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bay Partners, Telefonica Capital, Omidyar Network and others.
The ideal candidate:
Qualifications:
- 3+ Years Experience - Candidate should have 3+ years of demonstrably successful industry experience using latest web technologies.
- Excellent HTML, XHTML, and CSS Experience - Candidate must be able to hand-code to standards without error. Candidate also must possess a deep understanding of keeping code, content, and presentation separated.
- Object-oriented JavaScript Programming Experience - Candidate's experience must include class creation, object instantiation and inheritance. Candidate should also have extensive experience with JavaScript frameworks, preferably jQuery.
- Server-Side Scripting Experience - Candidate needs to have experience with server-side scripting languages like PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc...
- Flash/ActionScript Experience - Candidate's experience with Flash and its associated scripting language (ActionScript) will be a strong plus during fulfillment of this position. Working with Flash would be a very small part of the Candidate's workload and would consist mostly of enhancing, extending and maintaining existing code.
- Web Standards & Cross-Browser Compatibility - Candidate must have experience building web applications that support an array of web browsers (Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8; Firefox; Safari) using the latest web standards and best practices.
- Strong Communication Skills - A large part of the candidate's role will be to effectively communicate the importance of standards and best practices to both technical (web application development teams) and non-technical (project management) audiences.
- Strong Teamwork Skills - The candidate will be expected to contribute to frameworks and code libraries that we use to standardize our code deliverables. As such the candidate must be able to work closely with other contributors to ensure that their code contributions meet team standards.
Job Description and responsibilities:
Eventful, Inc. is the leading online service for discovering, sharing, promoting and creating local events throughout the world. We are looking for a Front End Engineer who brings an innovative, creative and disciplined approach to developing consumer focused products.
This is a full-time position. Telecommuters and contractors need not apply.
Responsibilities:
Members of the Front End Engineering team are expected to create valid and standards-compliant code that focuses on delivering the best possible user experience to all of our customers.
Eventful, Inc. is an equal opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace
To apply:
Interested? Email a PDF (preferred), ASCII or HTML resume and cover letter with "Front End Engineer" as the subject, to "jobs at eventful.com".