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Fluence is looking for a Javascript Engineer with strong CSS skills who will be responsible for implementing the client facing functionality of Fluence. We are looking for a creative and energetic team player who loves working in the browser and building responsive web apps.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Write responsive front-end code that runs seamlessly across both mobile and desktop clients
• Optimize HTML, CSS and Javascript to render quickly and degrade gracefully across different browsers and form factors
• Refactor existing client apps to improve stability and add new features
• Own the packaging and deployment of client side production code to CDN
• Own all client side tracking code and ensure web analytics funnels, reports and notifications are working correctly across all of our apps

REQUIREMENTS

• Strong understanding of pure Javascript, (not just working knowledge of JQuery)
• Experience using a popular JS Framework (Backbone / Ember / Angular, etc.)
• Understanding and experience applying the latest modern web technologies and best practices - CSS3, SASS, yeoman, HTML5 boilerplate, grunt, bower, etc..
• Good design sensibility and ability to rapidly convert a wire frame / mockup to functional web code
• Experience customizing and integrating with 3rd party embed tools, eg (YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitter, Facebook, Bandcamp, Vimeo, etc..)
• Expert knowledge of optimizing client code for performance
• Team player with professional standards and positive attitude

NICE-TO-HAVES

• Experience in a startup environment
• Experience using NodeJS, willingness to hold off on replacing everything with it
• Experience developing mobile apps in Javascript using native wrapper tools

Fluence is looking for a talented Server Engineer who will be responsible for building and maintaining our core server side systems, currently written in Python. We are looking for a smart, hard working team player who can build web APIs in their sleep, is interested or has experience with machine learning and loves solving technical problems at scale.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop core web services which drive the Fluence apps
• Develop user analytics to help us better understand our customers
• Develop social sharing analytics to help us better under how people are sharing content on Twitter, Facebook and around the web

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience developing RESTful web service APIs
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills
• Experience using Python to build real world web apps
• Experience developing or integrating with payment systems
• Experience hacking with 3rd party APIs
• Background and strong interest in analyzing social data
• Genuine passion for the tech / product / space
• Linux system administration
• Infrastructure / Cloud automation
• MongoDB / Redis / Memcache
• Scalability / Mongo query optimization

NICE-TO-HAVES

• Experience scaling a large scale professional web application
• Data science experience mining web data and analyzing graph connections

Fluence is looking for a Marketing Intern who will be responsible for helping to grow our community in a variety of ways. We are looking for a diligent and energetic team player who loves to engage with community members and leave them with a positive impression. You will be at the forefront of creating a new platform bringing creators of all kinds together with professional curators, influencers, and experts from many different fields. This is an opportunity for you to gain valuable experience in building a new technology with a team that enjoys fresh ideas and values a work-life balance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Diagnose, improve, and help solve issues on the platform.
• Customer and user outreach for feedback and support.
• Content strategy development.
• Social media management.
• User acquisition and community growth.
• Respond to customer service requests and any inbound inquiries from users.
• Quality assurance testing.

REQUIREMENTS

• A positive attitude with a tenacity to multi-task and take on a variety of roles in an early stage start-up environment.
• Recent graduate with interest and passion in marketing and serving customers
• Internship or entry level experience in a software or digital media startup
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced start-up with rapidly evolving product iterations and marketing materials.
• Experience in product marketing appreciated.
• Strong interpersonal skills and charm to keep our community happy.

If you are looking for an internship with the possibility of an entry level role at a fast-paced digital media startup, this could be the dream job for you. A strong interest in blogging, curating, or social media is a plus. A passion for media and its evolution is a must.