Jobs at DoSomething.org


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Our office is located in New York City


Positions Available:

DoSomething.org helps young people (25 and under) rock causes they care about.

Rules we live by:

  1. Believe in young people. Young people can lead today. We don’t require old people.
  2. Trust young people. We provide reliable, easy to access information and activation strategies, but young people decide for themselves what to do.
  3. Celebrate young people. We think all measurable contributions from young people are valuable.
  4. Listen to young people. We must always respect their varied abilities and time constraints.
  5. Value young people. Our programs and products are free. We’re not after young people’s money; we want their passion, time, and creativity.

Position: Front-end Developer

Reports to: Lead Front-end Developer

Description

Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new challenges with innovative tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented people to help drive this. DoSomething.org offers incredible career development and networking as we partner with top fortune 500 companies and top Silicon Valley companies. We need a front-end web developer that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our Mobile and Drupal- based platforms to the next level. Being an awesome kickball player & karaoke all-star is a huge plus. All you really need to know: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

Responsibilities:

  • Front-end web development for cause campaign micro-sites, and programmatic sections of the site
  • Help expand and improve functionality of DoSomething.org
  • Contribute ideas and work as a member of the tech team in solving problems
  • Work with innovative technologies that increase the ways young people take action (analytic-driven messaging, Mobile SMS, Facebook)
  • Good to great kickball or settlers player

Requirements:

  • Knowledge of the following technologies: HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP (a plus)
  • College degree or relevant experience in the field
  • Experience working with Drupal or other CMS theming
  • Keen interest in young people taking action
  • Play nicely with others: ability to work with a team

Applications/software:

  • Version control (Git/GitHub)
  • Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop
  • Unix command line (a plus)
  • Interest in innovation, brainstorming and all things creative

How to apply:

Position: Drupal Developer (jr or sr)

Reports to: Lead Developer

Description

Join a young, fast-paced team at DoSomething.org and help us tackle new challenges with innovative tech. We want to scale young people taking action in the U.S. and we need talented people to help drive this. DoSomething.org offers incredible career development and networking as we partner with top fortune 500 companies and top Silicon Valley companies. We're looking for a developer that thinks outside the box and helps us bring our Mobile and Drupal- based platforms to the next level. DoSomething.org is all about giving back to the Drupal community and will continue to create new and useful modules that help drive teens taking action. Being an awesome kickball player & karaoke all-star is a huge plus. All you really need to know: http://www.dosomething.org/staff-blog/our-teenage-dream

Responsibilities:

  • Help expand and improve functionality of DoSomething.org
  • Contribute ideas and work as a member of the tech team in solving problems
  • Work with innovative technologies that increase the ways young people take action (analytic-driven messaging, Mobile SMS & WAP)
  • Some front-end web development for cause campaign micro-sites, and programmatic sections of the site
  • Nerd snipe when needed
  • Good to great kickball or settlers player

Requirements:

  • College degree or relevant experience in the field
  • Experience working on content/community based sites
  • Knowledge of the following technologies: HTML, CSS, Object-Oriented PHP, MySQL, JQuery
  • Knowledge of following platforms: Drupal, Facebook developer (a plus)
  • Applications/software: version control (GitHub or like system), Unix, Adobe Suite (familiar)
  • Keen interest in young people taking action
  • Interest in innovation, brainstorming, all things creative, etc...
  • Play nicely with others: ability to work with a team...

How to apply:

  • Apply online here
  • Note - H-1B visas are available for this position.