UI Engineer 
Location: US, IL, Chicago
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Engineering
Salary range: 75000-110000
Company profile: Kin is a hosted HR management app used by small companies to manage employee data and files, time-off, and new hire onboarding. Our mission is to make HR managers more efficient, and to delight employees with a fresh, simple interface to their workplace.
Description: Kin is seeking a UI engineer to join our small, distributed team. The position begins immediately and you're welcome to work remotely so long as you're in the US and eligible to work here.  As a UI Engineer, you're responsible for the entire technical lifecycle of Kin's UI. That means working with our designer up front on interactions and best practices, then working closely with our back-end engineers to get your work wired into the application. About KinKin is an employee management tool for small companies. It manages employee data and files, time-off and team calendars, and new hire onboarding for more than 100 companies worldwide. We launched in July of 2013, are completely bootstrapped, and we're passionate about supporting small, innovative companies as they grow, learn, and thrive. Why work at Kin? We're a small, scrappy team. We're constantly building, releasing, and improving the app, so you'll see your work ship regularly. Though your primary role will be development, you will have influence on the direction of the product and plenty of transparency into how we run our business. 
Requirements: Who we’re looking forYou are a front-end native - You speak clean, semantic, standards-compliant front-end code fluently. You have experience with dynamic CSS preprocessors such as SASS and LESS, and responsive UI isn't a mountain you walk around.    You are absolutely solid with our technology set - Kin is built on Backbone,js, and you'll be spending at least 50% of your time working directly in it. We use Handlebars for templating and Rivets for data binding. Our backend is built on C#/.NET. Though you don't need to be fluent in C#, some experience with it is certainly a plus, as is experience with Wordpress.You don't want that job at Google - To succeed at Kin, you have to be interested in the product, interaction design, sales, and every other facet of the company. You like to work in a fast-paced environment where your work _truly_ matters.  If you're looking for detailed specs and crisp corners, or are looking to be a cog in a big engine, this isn't the gig for you.You can succeed with a remote team - Our team isn't huddled in a single location, so you need to be present, aware, and responsive with our distributed team even if you work out of our Chicago office.  We use tools like Github, Basecamp, HipChat, Google Hangouts, and DoneDone to keep both code and team synced. Constant communication and teamwork make the company tick.
Benefits: In addition to a competitive base salary, we offer: an employee equity plan, employer-matched retirement plan, BCBS PPO medical/vision/dental, up to 25 days paid vacation, paid transportation or parking (for Chicago team members), and a flexible remote work policy. 
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