(Nashville, TN) About the role:
The Lonely Planet Online team is responsible for delivering lonelyplanet.com, a place that inspires, connects and helps travellers. We are challenged with bringing over 40 years of authored travel content to life on the web in a way that is engaging for our community and relevant for individual travellers.
We're passionate about our products and the evolving technologies we use to build them. We want engineers that want to build stuff quickly, probably break things along the way and fix it even faster. We use lean principles. We value rapid deployment, metrics driven engineering and experimentation.
Do you contribute to an open source project or write a blog? Let us know. We're interested in what you're excited about. Here's what we've been up to:
our engineering blog: http://engineering.lonelyplanet.com
our GitHub repo: https://github.com/lonelyplanet.
UI Developers work closely Product, Design and Development teams to help shape and deliver an engaging and beautiful lonelyplanet.com at lightning fast speeds.
You:
have mastered HTML CSS
know your way around JavaScript and scripting languages (primarily Ruby for us)
can't live without source code management (we use GitHub)
relish working in a DevOps environment
respect Ron Swanson (OK, this one isn't really a requirement)
have passion for travel and interest in building systems that connect travellers with content and each other.
Our Technology:
We're big believers in lsquo;right tool for the right job' and encourage engineers to try new technology. But just to give you a taste, this is some of the technology we're currently big fans of:
Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Sass, Haml, Coffescript
AWS, Chef
Ubuntu, PostGres.
At Lonely Planet we:
believe strongly in open source development and encourage developers to open source their work or contribute to open source projects
work as part of the Lonely Planet community to create a positive, tolerant and harmonious work environment
be honest, approachable and responsive to the resolution of work-related matters
deal with all staff in a helpful, courteous and respectful manner
communicate ideas which may improve the efficiency, performance or standards of your department and be open to the consideration of new ideas
actively participate in the giving and receiving of constructive feedback to ensure understanding and open team relationships, including participating in the more formal performance review process
proactively work toward achieving your team and individual goals, demonstrating Lonely Planet's relevant Core Competencies in lsquo;how' you go about achieving outcomes
actively ensure that the workplace is kept free from harassment, bullying behaviour and discrimination through thoughtful behaviour and leading by example
work in accordance with Lonely Planet policy and procedural guidelines
comply with all Occupational Health and Safety guidelines, reporting any potential risks or hazards
follow safe work practices for self and others.
Apply: Email a bit about yourself (and maybe a CV) to us.
Or apply here: https://lonelyplanet.recruiterbox.com/jobs/24077