I don’t normally put up job postings, but this opportunity is too cool not to. Stamen Design, in San Francisco, has an opening for a full-time developer to “make their ideas feasible.” If you follow visualization on the Web, no doubt you’ve come across some of their work – somewhere in between analytical and art. There’s the Digg Labs stuff, Trulia Hindsight, Twitter Blocks, Cabspotting, and plenty of other fun stuff.
Here’s part of the job description:
You’ll be working with a small team of designers and engineers who will be looking to you to make their ideas feasible. You’re excited by the possibility of cutting and bending data to fit it through the thin straw of the internet. You can look at a source of information and model it as resources, rows and columns, messages and queues. You have the programming experience necessary to write data processors and servers, the system administration experience to inhabit and actively guide a constantly-shifting technical environment of free & open source software, and the patience & grace to grant that PHP and spreadsheets might be appropriate tools when circumstances require the quick and the dirty.
You must have the willingness and ability to discuss the finer points of HTTP, SQL, RESTful API’s, response formats and resource consumption. You understand that the perfect is often the enemy of the good, and your pragmatism & flexibility show themselves in functional systems. You can see the connections between technical infrastructure and the interactive design & visualization it supports.
We’re less concerned with how long you’ve worked than with how good you are. You will need to have been paid to do good work; the skill that comes from delivering work for money can’t be learned in any other way. You maintain a state of constant learning to keep up with new work in your field, participate in communities of practice connected to your expertise, and experiment with new techniques in personal projects.
Go here for the complete details.
[via teczno]
