Social networking and community engagement technology made easy

Community Engine is an Australian owned software development company that is building the next generation of Social Networking Products.  With a head office in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, the company has embarked on a significant growth phase.  With strong demand for a number of exciting new products in the pipeline, we are looking for some outstanding new talent to join our team. 

About You:

• We’re looking for a Front-end Developer, with at least 5 years experience building web applications with Microsoft technologies. 
• Need to be a team player, but able to work autonomously
• Believe that development is a highly creative process
• Believe that user-experience is what it’s all about
• Believe that the quality of your work and working with like minded people, is the main reward
• Maintain your knowledge by following industry blogs, podcasts and whitepapers
• Read technical journals thoroughly, gaining a deep understanding of the technologies and how to apply them
• Want to work on projects that can change things for the better
• At Community Engine we embrace standards, patterns and practices, and we’re looking for a front-end developer who does the same, and does it with a high level of creative thinking. 

About the Role:

• You will be required to develop semantically amazing X/HTML & CSS
• W3C web standards and WCAG accessibility standards
• A strong understanding of SEO and how to optimise for it
• A solid appreciation of the limitations of IE6, and how to work around it
• Some CMS experience (Kentico, SiteCore and others)
• Awesome JavaScript, incredible interface transitions and enhancements and AJAX with JQuery & you will know what JSON is
• It would be great if you’ve worked in Microsoft Visual Studio including Team System, but don’t worry if you haven’t

About Community Engine:

Community Engine (www.communityengine.com) provides social media, membership management & community engagement technology, products and services to all types of organisations including government, business and the not-for-profit sector. Community Engine’s social networking technology directly connects businesses to their customers, associations to their members, politicians to their constituents, management to their staff and people to their communities. Community Engine’s growing client base includes Federal and State governments, Events New South Wales, the ACTU, the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, the Australian Labor Party, the Australia Council for the Arts, National Parks & Wildlife, Tourism Tasmania and Fbi Radio. Community Engine was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Sydney with local offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Melbourne and Perth.

If you think that this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you.  Please send your CV and cover letter through to careers@communityengine.com

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Tags: css, front end developer, html