(Chattanooga, TN)

So here’s the deal: We are looking for another talented person to join the Easy team here in Chattanooga (the “next tech city”) full-time. The enviroment here is best suited for someone who is flexible, loves variety and is eager to produce quality work. At any given time, our work consists of: client production (for clients like wikiHow, EllisLab & Nichols College and on internal projects), training & consulting (for folks like the New York Times, Spectra Energy & SAS), electronic & physical publishing through our sister company Easy Readers, and event-based training through our workshop series Retreats 4 Geeks. Our projects offer a variety of experience, encourage continued growth, and require a robust skill set.

If you’re the kind of person that thrives on a good challenge, read on…

Our team members are:

• excellent communicators;
• fun to be around & have a good sense of humor;
• detail-oriented to the point of being a little OCD;
• not afraid to fail quickly and often;
• passionate about their work;
• eager to share what they know via speaking, training, and writing; and
• dedicated to making the web better.

From a technical perfective, we’re expecting you to:

• know HTML & CSS like it’s your mother tongue;
• understand the importance of semantics;
• be passionate about progressive enhancement;
• get excited by the opportunities of mobile;
• grok adaptive layouts, media queries & mobile-first;
• be a competant JavaScript programmer (jQuery is ok); and
• understand the importance of optimization (images, JS, etc.).

It would be awesome if you:

• are comfortable working with version control (e.g. Git);
• have made open source contributions;
• can program in JavaScript without the aid of a library;
• understand how to optimize JavaScript for performance;
• can also program on the server-side (PHP, Node, Python/Django); and/or
• are familiar with ExpressionEngine.

I you think you’re a good fit, please reach out. We can’t wait to meet you!

Notes:

This position has been pre-qualified for Chattanooga’s GeekMove program, meaning that if you relocate here to work for us and you buy a house, you would qualify to receive a $10,000 forgivable second mortgage and $1,250 for relocation expenses. Talk about a sweet bonus!

This job is in the United States and we are not able to sponsor non-U.S. citizens with an H1B visa at this time.

We offer a fun, relaxed atmosphere, flexible hours, 3 weeks of paid time off (plus holidays), health insurance, room to grow, and lots of quality mentorship time from our technical lead, @AaronGustafson.

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