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Boston or REMOTE - full-time

Senior Front-End Developer

Job Description

The Woven team at litl is looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to join our Copley Square-based team. You will be responsible for all things HTML at litl, including:

- develop full HTML5 applications, for the web, mobile or smart-TV platforms

- take over maintainership of our existing HTML-based projects, such as our companion app for Samsung TVs, our shared photo site, our internal Operations Dashboard etc...

- maintain the company websites

- work in close cooperation with our design team to develop user experience prototypes

While our headquarters are in Boston, we have developers from various parts of the world. Working remotely is a common practice at litl.

Skills & Requirements

Proven record as an excellent HTML5 developer, ideally on a broad range of browser and platforms:

- Expert knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.

- Experience structuring large HTML applications and writing maintainable client-side code.

- Significant experience with popular web development frameworks (such as jQuery, backbone.js...).

- Experience in responsive designs for desktop and mobile browsers.

- Strong emphasis on code quality and maintainability. We will ask you for code samples.

- Experience working in a small team of developers strongly desired. For example, involvement with an open source project is greatly appreciated.

- Experience with git strongly desired.

- Experience with other platforms appreciated.

- Good sense for design and aesthetics appreciated.

About litl LLC

We’re the company that brought you the litl webbook, an Internet computer for the home that’s been hailed as a “design miracle” by Fast Company, “truly new” by John Gruber, and “bold” and “refreshing” by Walt Mossberg.

With the launch of Woven, our photo viewing app, we’re increasingly focused on helping people enjoy their treasured photo collections through smart and simple mobile apps, desktop software, and supporting services. More information about Woven is available at its website, woventheapp.com.

Email: jobs@litl.com



Also seeking vision/machine learning interns for this summer at jobs@litl.com:

litl's Woven is looking for talented interns in the Boston area for its image research team. We're a creative engineering team evaluating whimsical ways to visualize and organize photographs.

Skills & Requirements

Proficiency in Python. Interest in one or more of: machine learning, photographic image processing, or data visualization.

The team's responsibilities include:

* development and analysis of machine learning and information retrieval methods

* novel clustering methods for photo contents

* supporting our server team with quick-to-production, highly maintainable code

An internship with us will be project focused, support your strengths or goals, and will leave you with practical experience in a strong software engineering team.




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