Overview
You are a Web Developer (a.k.a Front-end God) to whom people might say:
* "Wow, I had no idea you could do that with Ajax, CSS. How do you do that?"
* "This site has such amazing usability. Can you please make my website work so well?"
Also: if you apply, pease also include in your email a summary what you're been up to for the past few years that makes you the right person for our team as well as a list of ideas you have for how to improve our site.
Responsibilities
Play a key role in the creation of the user-facing components of Wikinvest
Start with ideas, design products and features, architect a technical solution, then build, test, and launch it
Be an integral member of our team and help shape our future
Help build and grow the team
Experience
Building production websites (HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, etc.)
Building technology at the crossroads of back-end functionality and front-end design
the LAMP stack -- PHP in particular
If you've built RIAs in Flash/Flex/Ajax, that's cool too
Skills
Is not easily phased by dealing with cross-browser compatibility issues. In fact, you oddly (in a slightly masochistic way) enjoy playing Whack-a-mole making things look right in IE, Firefox, and other modern browsers
Is scary smart and someone we can trust will find the right answers to hard problems you may have never solved before
Is technically brilliant, versatile, and creative
Your teammates love working with (you also have friends like you who would love to work with you as we continue to grow)
Will passionately bust your ass at the prospect of building something that will change the way people invest
Has valuable experience designing consumer web applications with performance, scalability, stability, and security in mind