Qualifications:

• Considerable skill in JavaScript and an appetite for constant improvement
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks, preferably but not necessarily Angular
• Serious commitment to high development standards, including comprehensive testing, in whatever language you’re working; in JavaScript, experience with Jasmine, Mocha, or other testing framework
• Demonstrated ability to work with team of peers, understanding and respecting the responsibilities and expertise developers, designers, QA folks, and others bring to the project
• Ability to provide reasonable estimates on work, meet deadlines, and take ownership and responsibility

In an intermediate role, you would get right to work in a complex application that clients depend on to get their jobs done. You would learn to refine not only your own code but our APIs that it works with. You would have growing responsibility for new features and tested bug fixes. In any given week, you might:

• prepare some existing code for an upcoming backend change so nothing breaks
• pair with senior developers to develop new features
• puzzle through a client-reported bug; eventually testing then fixing it

Frontend developers on our platform are first-class team members. Even though you specialize in cutting-edge JavaScript, you’ll gain familiarity with the entire system. We use ES6 with babelify, AngularJS 1.x, Grunt, and Stylus, among many other tools. If you have experience or interest in these other areas, they may also be part of the job:

End-to-end testing (we use Nightwatch.js and Sauce Labs)
Mobile design / touch interfaces

Crunch.io offers competitive salary, benefits, and equity options. We are a small but growing company (less than 20), spread from UTC+1 to +11, mostly in the Western hemisphere. Remote work is flexible and largely independent, yet highly cooperative.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

AdThrive.com helps serious bloggers make more money with the ads on their site by acting as their trusted expert guide in the wild-west like world of online advertising. This means helping them figure out which ad placements to use, how to develop an ad strategy, and then actually installing that strategy for them. Through our work, we help the best creators and contributors on the web, people who have a passion for their craft (cooking, decorating, parenting, finance, investing) get to write about their passion and be paid to live their dream. We help bloggers leave their full-time jobs and stay home with their kids. We help struggling families pay their bills and find hope. We support the people who are creating the internet!

As an AdThrive Wordpress Support & Happiness Engineer, you’re the kind of person who is passionate about helping people. It shapes your worldview. Perhaps you’re already active in helping people online through the WordPress.com or WordPress.org forums, or contribute to other online communities like GitHub, StackOverflow, StudioPress, etc. The thought of helping families earn enough money for one parent to stay home or to cover their mortgage gives you goosebumps.

We are looking for people with the right mix of compassion, writing skills, and technical knowledge to connect with creative publishers and get the job done for them. We do this through listening to their needs, understanding their goals, and then guiding them to the best outcome through the use of the advertising strategies we have mastered over time. We’re looking for fast-learning, creative, technically minded team members with a heart to serve the best content creators on the web.

Day in the Life:

• Crafting thoughtful, personal responses to client questions in our support system (Zendesk)
• Troubleshooting and fixing problems on client websites (mostly WordPress)
• Analyzing ad layouts and earnings
• Making recommendations for improvements in ad layouts
• Onboarding new clients by installing ads on their sites
• Being an active member of a distributed team via tools like Slack, G Suite, Zoom, Zendesk, Appear.in and more
• Understanding the needs of online publishers and crafting unique solutions to best serve their goals
• Building on our community of support, knowledge, documentation, and resources to help our team serve our publishers
• Working to understand a new development in the community/industry, overcoming new obstacles, and embracing a fast-paced virtual work environment

You’ll do well if you have:

• Patience, grace, a sense of humor, and some moderate GIF sharing abilities
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Working knowledge of WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• A knack for taking technical language and making it understandable
• A passion for solving tough problems and proposing elegant solutions
• A desire to make everything you touch better
• Genuine desire to help others solve problems and succeed
• High level of comfort working in a fast paced environment

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of backend WordPress experience using the following languages: PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience editing custom WordPress themes and plugins
• Experience with common plugins such as W3 Total Cache and WooCommerce
• Strong understanding of Google Analytics
• Strong Written Communication (web-based copy, preferred)
• Fluent understanding of online ecosystems (server and client side structure, hosting, CDN’s, page speed tests, front-end site optimization)
• Commitment to AdThrive’s Mission Statement

We'd start you in the data analyst role. You'll get familiar with our tracking methods, run some experiments on our exist games, analyze the results and generally learn the social casino space (we make mobile free-to-play slots games). Once that's solid, we'll add the PM functions and you'll help make recommendations for new experiments and drive feature improvements and optimization. You'll work closely with me and the rest of our design team. My cofounder and I are both Zynga alums, so we take analytics and PMing very seriously.

We don't care where you are in the world, but you must be able to consistently work core hours of 9-5 Pacific Time. We collaborate online with Slack, Teamspeak, and Hangouts.