Sr. Web Developer

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Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), which launched in 1999, is a publicly traded bank holding company primarily regulated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The Company provides widely distributed, low cost banking and payment solutions to a broad base of U.S. consumers. Green Dot's products and services include its market leading category of General Purpose Reloadable (GPR) prepaid cards and its industry-leading cash transfer network. Green Dot reloadable prepaid debit cards are designed for long-term, general spending and budgeting purposes and can be used everywhere that MasterCard or Visa debit cards are accepted. Green Dot has a wide product distribution network that includes approximately 60,000 retail stores nationwide, where 95% of Americans shop. Green Dot is headquartered in the greater Los Angeles area. For more details, visit ****Sr. Web Developer
GoBank is revolutionizing personal banking. We’re building the best modern, web & mobile bank in the world, and we need you to help us make it beautiful, fast, and clean. Whether because of speedy, reliable functionality, modern design sensibilities, or continued surprise and delight, we want GoBank users to have a smile on their face every time they come to the site. You’re the person who will make that happen.
You’ll be working in HTML, CSS, and Javascript every day. Our roots are in the prepaid debit card industry and we built that business using an all Microsoft stack, so even though you’ll get to spend most of your time on the front end, you'll also need to work with some ASP.NET code on occasion.
Here are some of the things we’d like you to be familiar with:
Modern Web Frameworks:
You understand why these matter, how they help, and what they don’t do. You don't just know what MVC stands for, but you can tell us why it makes sense. You’ve built sites using one or more of Express, Rails, Django, ASP.NET MVC, Grails, or AppEngine and you’ve read through the documentation on some of the others.
Service Integration
: Stitching RESTful services that speak JSON to XML spewing SOAP endpoints with a few custom binary protocols thrown in sounds painful to you and you can explain, in an objective way, why that sort of an architecture might not be a great idea. That’s not what we do (usually) but when we do you can handle it.
JavaScript
: Client-side javascript is a must-have. Experience using major libraries such as jQuery, Raphael, script.aculo.us, dojo, YUI, or Ext JS is great, but we mostly design and build our own code. Explaining the difference between prototype inheritance versus class inheritance can’t frighten you nor can closure optimization or client side performance debugging.
HTML and CSS
: Layout and styling must be second nature. While you’ll usually be working from a wireframe or a full visual mockup, not having them won’t cause you to produce an ugly result. You’re a software engineer not a visual designer, but you can tell the difference between good design and bad design. That we target a range of browsers across both mobile and desktop platforms is pretty much a given.
Backend Coding
: You’ve got some familiarity with .Net, or else you’re a fast learner who isn’t religious about platform. When other team members are busy you have no compunctions about digging into, and modifying, the backend code. You can write SQL if you have to, but you’ve got several strategies to avoid it.
SEO
: You don’t have to be in marketing, but you know that how we structure and display our content matters. You’re comfortable bending site architecture to the needs of the marketing team and can work together with them to optimize our site.
And here are a few of the things we’ll need from you besides your technical expertise:
Collaborative
: You enjoy working closely with designers and product managers to find the best solutions. You like being part of a high performing engineering group. You’re a positive force on the team and you enjoy working with people.
Initiative
: You have a list. Maybe it’s in Evernote, maybe it’s on paper, or maybe it’s just in your head. But you have a list of things you want to improve, whether they’re large pieces of web architecture or niggling design issues that have been bothering you. You look for opportunities to improve things both large and small, and you always have something to do.
Continuous Learner
: You choose what technology to use based on the merits and not based solely on your familiarity. You aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves and learn something new, and you aren’t too proud to ask for help when you need it.
5 years
working on professional or personal
web application projects. We’ll want to look at your projects out in the wild, and hearing about your experiences building them. Additional non-web related programming experience is a plus but not a requirement.
Green Dot Corporation
3465 E. Foothill Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91107
Web: ****

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