Front-End Engineer

iSL is looking for a skilled Front-End Engineer to join our seven-person, in-house engineering team. You’ll lead the planning and development of tools and applications that power digital campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the world, using the best technology for the job. You’ll push the envelope. You’ll have fun.

While you’re comfortable on all sides of the stack, ideally you’re deep into a love-affair with JavaScript, and have built enough web applications with today’s client-side frameworks to have an opinion on each. You’re interested in build tools, AMD, Node.js and have a favorite amongst the many testing frameworks available.

We are a down-to-earth, hardworking team that’s not afraid of a challenge. We listen to each other, we respect each other, and we really like each other. We push one another to make great things. We’re looking for someone who shares and believes in these same ideals.

We’re small, but growing quickly, so we’re still working out the best ways to stay fast and collaborate easily while keeping a solid footing. We’d love to hear your ideas on how we can work together even better. You’ll inspire us with new approaches to tough problems, and we’ll inspire you with some of the most daring client work around.

If this job sounds like something you’d enjoy, drop us a line below and let us know why. Please make sure to include a link to a GitHub account and a portfolio or resume.

Location

Washington, DC

Skills

Some of the tools and technologies we use every day include: HTML/HAML, SASS, Node.js/Express/Socket.io, Redis/MySQL/MongoDB/Nginx, AWS/S3, GitHub

Experience

Ideally, you have a deep background in traditional web development in addition to having launched a number of production websites using client-side MVC frameworks. You've successfully led the front-end development process for numerous large-scale client builds.

The Perfect Candidate

• Is a thoughtful, independent, forward-thinking developer who wants to be involved throughout the entirety of a project's lifecycle.
• Specializes in client-side app development, but is interested in working across the a full stack.
• Is looking to help inspire, build, and learn from a team that strives for the best possible quality in our work.

The Wild Card

ISL is made up of five teams – each of which is related to Operations, Marketing, Design, Strategy and Engineering respectively. Many of us cross over one or more of these teams in terms of skills and passions. We’re all aligned by delivering great work for Fortune 500 clients and on inventing new things we love.

The Wild Card might join one of these teams – or span them. We’re not sure. What we’re looking for is someone who is devastatingly creative, insightful, and energetic with a technical orientation.

Submit for this role if you’re…well…a wild card that doesn’t fit the typical boxes of life.

Location

Dupont Circle, Washington DC

Skills

Just one: being able to absorb the chaos of the world and distil it into amazingness

Experience

Startup or Agency experience required

The Perfect Candidate

• Is technical - understands code, APIs and how web things work - but is not necessarily a dev
• Is a design-thinker but is not necessarily a designer
• Is a terrific writer and expresser of ideas
• Can sell people on their vision like a pro
• Has tons of relationships with interesting creative/technically oriented people

Developer Apprentice

We’re looking for a couple really smart, ultra-web savvy Spring/Summer Developer Apprentices to have a bunch of fun with us as we build web and mobile apps, and digital experiential campaigns (pranks, stunts, buzz marketing stuff) for our Fortune 500 clients. Apply with a friend! More about us here: http://istrategylabs.com/about/

You’ll join our 6 person engineering team and will have the opportunity to work on projects for famous brands, as well as on internal projects just for fun. Compensation is based on the candidate – and is likely a few hundred dollars a week. Start dates are flexible (like early May through August).

If you’re a Senior, the apprenticeship will be structure to result in a full time offer at the end of your apprenticeship if that makes sense for us and you.

Location

Dupont Circle, Washington DC

Skills

HTML/CSS/JavaScipt a must. PHP/Python experience of interest. Knowledge of node.js, RoR and/or objective-c a plus.

Experience

Intermediate experience required (i.e. you can code and launch an app - but still have a lot to learn)

The Perfect Candidate

• Is painfully talented, sociable, and interesting
• Is a true web geek conversant in the idiosyncratic culture and memes we <3 so much
• Doesn't understand the meaning of 'can't' - there is only 'figure out'

Web/Mobile UI Designer

We’re looking for a supremely talented designer to join our team to create super sexy interfaces for web and mobile applications. A deep understanding of User Experience Design as a whole is a must. You’ll be asked to meticulously craft information architecture deliverables, visual design assets, and – if you’re capable – to do your own interaction design work to bring these interfaces to life. If front end dev is not your forté, you’ll be paired with a developer in order to bring your visual designs to life.

You’ll be “Deathmask” design team member #7, and will work closely with our 6-person engineering team, called “Antimatter.”

We’re working on projects for Fortune 500′s while also building our own products and projects we find interesting. We’d like you to be a part of crafting the vision for where we take some of these unique ideas in the future.

Location

Washington DC

Skills

UX, IA, Visual Design required. HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills a plus.

Experience

Significant. You must know design, IA/UX inside and out.

The Perfect Candidate

• Is a true artist
• Is incredibly smart, charismatic, and a natural networker/conversationalist
• Is a complete design snob whose attention to detail borders on OCD
• Is immersed in design industry trends and emerging approaches
• Loves responsive web design and hates cutting corners
• Wants to make their mark on the world as a true craftsman

Hardware Hacker

We’re building Social Machines that infuse social data into the physical world—mostly through Arduino interfaces. If you’re adept at crafting physical objects with open hardware at the heart, you’re right for this

Location

Washington DC

Skills

Arduino Building, C++ Programming, Physical Prototyping

Experience

Advanced Arduino prototyping preferred

The Perfect Candidate

• Driven to hack the physical world like a thirsty (wo)man to an oasis
• Is a good teacher and lacks the ability to condescend to others
• Is a developer by background and a designer by inclination
• Is painfully talented, sociable, and interesting

Creative Strategist

You’ll create killer digital and experiential campaign concepts for Fortune 500 brands, non-profits and for internal projects. You’ll manage and create chaos masterfully. You’ll have fun. You won’t sleep.

Location

Washington DC

Skills

Client Management, Social Media Strategy, Ideation, Public Speaking, Paid Media Planning & Buying

Experience

You must have agency experience and have worked directly with Fortune 500 clients

The Perfect Candidate

• Is incredibly smart, charismatic and a natural networker/conversationalist
• Is a geek and/or hipster at heart (no popped collars allowed)
• Is an entrepreneurial fountain of ridiculously good ideas
• Is not satisfied with good enough—will stop at nothing to crush it
• Understand how to manage clients and design/dev deliverables
• Has managed dozens of digital design/built projects and campaigns
• Has a solid understanding of paid media planning and buy (especially Adwords and Social Ads)