Onswipe’s mission is to power the way the world experiences the web on touch devices. We do this by making it insanely easy for a publisher of any size to make their existing content provide a beautiful app-like experience in the browser. What Google did for search and Facebook did for share, Onswipe is doing for experience.

Do you dream in javascript and paint a canvas of wonder in HTML5? If so, then joining Onswipe is the place for you. We’re looking for engineerings that have extensive knowledge in Javascript and building quick front end interfaces for millions of people.

A little background information about Onswipe

• Onswipe is born and bred in New York City. We started out as a part of the inaugural Techstars NYC class in 2011.
• We’ve raised over $6,000,000 from investors like Spark Capital, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, and more. They’re early investors in companies like Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Admeld.
• We have one of the largest audiences on the tablet web, meaning you get to work on
• Our team is 25+ people strong.
• Our executive team has built large teams at companies like Aol, Jumptap, Grooveshark, and more
• We’ve been named Forbes 30 Under 30, INC 30 Under 30, Businesweek Top 25 under 25, and Time Inc. Top 10 Startups.
• Some of our partners include Ziff Davis, Answers.com, Bonnier, Blackbook, and more.
• Benefits, benefits, benefits… Dental, vision, health, gym memberships, and mac equipment galore.

More about our technology stack

• On the backend, we are using Node.js for most of our backend operations.
• On the frontend, we use HTML5/CSS3 with JavaScript, with SwipeCore, our in-house JavaScript framework for touch interaction.
• Database-wise, we store most of our data into MongoDB with some data in MySQL.
• Other stuff we use includes Redis and Solr.
• Our code is committed to GitHub.
• We track issues with Jira
• We’re working on developing a testing culture using Vows tests and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• We’re developing a system that serves content to millions of readers a month. We need you to help us grow it.

Four things that would make us love you

1. Able to work with pure javascript as opposed to frameworks such as coffeescript or JQuery.
2. Building for the touch web using HTML5/CSS3/Javascript on iOS or Android tablets and phones.
3. You believe experience isn’t just design, but how the end user feels after experiencing fast performance.
4. You know at least 5 major webkit bugs that make your life difficult and wish were fixed.

Responsibilities

• Work on the front-end reader team of Onswipe that impacts the end user.
• Work with an extensible architecture that works across many devices such as iPad and Nexus7
• Interact and eventually contribute to our touch interaction library Swipecore
• Create new and innovative ad units that interact with the reader layer and content on the front-end
• Create core plugins and functionality for our plugin along with maintaining the base architecture.

Abilities

• College education, or something awesome you did instead of one.
• Previous startup experience (not a side project) required.
• Extensive knowledge of HTML, especially HTML5.
• Extensive knowledge of CSS, especially CSS3.
• Extensive knowledge of Javascript.
• Touch experience with Javascript a must.