Grist is looking for a front-end Web developer with WordPress theme development experience to join our product team. We’re looking fora candidate withstrong skills in CSS and javascript that cares about the design of media sites and wants to help create a great experience for ouraudience.

If you have experience working in the media, aim for excellence, see failure as a learning opportunity, and believe it’s possible to crack a joke and change the world at the same time, this could be the job for you.

Here’s a short list of some of the opportunities this job offers:

• The challenge to innovate UX design for our rapidly growing mobile audience.

• The chance to participate in product design as important voice on our team.

• Work with journalists to tell stories with new Web technologies.

• The chance to lead our exploration of new technologies as part of our forward looking efforts

You can learn more about our benefits on our company page. In a nutshell:

• Relaxed jeans and t-shirt office style

• Flexible schedules and 10% time side-projects

• Matching 401K and great health benefits

• Professional development budget and a conference budget

Daily, you will work in close collaboration with designers and developers in a daily scrum to develop our custom WordPress theme to improve our site’s UI with a focus on creating a great user experience. You’ll keep us sharp by learning and employing best-practices of your field.

Ideally you are experienced with responsive design techniques and have a deep appreciation of the challenges in developing and designing for mobile audiences. You’re wellversed in CSS theory as well as practice, and conversant about modern workflows and Web design philosophies.

This is a full-time salaried position with good benefits. Our team is located in downtown Seattle. We strongly prefer local candidates who can work with us in person, but we are open to the possibility of remote team members who show the requisite experience.