Web Designer
Location: NZ, N, Wellington
Department: Design
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Design
Company profile: Mindscape is a Wellington based software development company that specialises in building tools for software engineers. We have a high growth product, Raygun (#URL_6b2f170addc3dd0415d65e21a8ece81d4c134c2b1a8b449386367dfaa286971b#) that's growing strongly. Mindscape is profitable and recently raised money to aggressively expand. Well respected, Mindscape has won international and national awards for excellence in software and has thousands of customers, including BMW, NATO, Intel, Microsoft & Beats Music to name a few. If you're up for the challenge of joining a fast growing business then look no further.
Description: Raygun is a fast growing Mindscape product (#URL_6b2f170addc3dd0415d65e21a8ece81d4c134c2b1a8b449386367dfaa286971b#). Raygun is a hosted service for automatically collecting data about software crashes and errors. It has a strong design aesthetic with plenty of opportunity to be creative, quirky and professional all at once so it's no suprise that customers love the current design and cite it as being one of the many reasons they choose our service.You'll be joining a small team and have a direct impact on the Raygun web application. You should have reasonable production skills with CSS/JavaScript, as well as a strong interest in the usability of what you're designing. This role is predominantly about design, but a full-stack skillset to implement your designs in the application would be a substantial benefit.One of the great things about building a product for a technical audience that we can use cutting edge technologies. Forget Internet Explorer 7 support - if our customers used that, they'd already be out of a job. You get to work with all the latest buzzword technologies and frameworks - HTML5 (we particularly love the Canvas tag), CSS3, D3.js, #URL_b7bad8ac916069eadd573f035544c52dc3519a0ba054fb7ab1ff9ba3e1525399#. Raygun is growing strongly, with thousands of developers globally using the service. Mindscape is well respected company for excellence in product development. The opportunity to join a fast growing, fast moving company where you have a direct impact on the application is here - are you up for the challenge?
Requirements: We hire for personality & skills, this is what we're looking for:Excellent design aesthetic that works well with our target audience.A eye for detail, no pixel left behind. You should get an eye twitch if you spot a pixel out of place.You want to build the best looking web app in the world.Skills with photoshop for mocking of UI's.Strong skills in JavaScript & CSSSelf dicipline with initiative. We're a small team and expect the best, you'll be expected to deliver great UI & UX without too much handholding. Not essential, but experience with #URL_b7bad8ac916069eadd573f035544c52dc3519a0ba054fb7ab1ff9ba3e1525399#, D3.js and #URL_8c15b2abad62b7db133a5e4b979a5e6fb6a24855736a1945c821551913e3eb75# would be nice to have.You won't be a print designer who is reluctantly having to find work in the digital world.
Benefits: You will be joining a small team where you'll have a real impact on the design direction of the Raygun product.At Mindscape you'll receive:A fair market rate salary.4 weeks paid annual leave per year.Potential to be involved in the Employee Share Option Program.Friday team lunch (normally pizzas, but picked by staff...)Computer setup / environment of your choice (are you a mac or pc?)Social team drinks & nibbles
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