Jobs at Daylife

Have a Passion for Publishing?

Daylife is a tight and talented team of 26 people, based in the Soho neighborhood of New York and passionate about building the next generation of web-based publishing and content services. The work we do helps publishers of all kinds and sizes - from Fortune 500 brands to enterprising bloggers – create audience experiences that are more engaging, more evocative, and more connected.

We pride ourselves on our no-drama, fluid, relaxed, yet methodical culture and our ability to build anything (as noted workplace management guru Jay-Z put it, "difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week"). Together, we have many years of experience developing fancy software at fancy companies (we’re now developing even fancier software, but at a more modest company). We work hard and somehow still manage to have fun doing it. And right now we need your help.

Current Job Openings

We're looking for someone passionate about user interface development for web-based applications. As a CSS Application Developer, you'll style web applications with elegant UI designs using CSS, XHTML, and related technologies. You'll work with creative designers and engineers to transform Photoshop images and wireframes into user interfaces and interactions according to design specs, agile decision making, and by asking the right questions. Where needed, you’ll go beyond CSS styling and XHTML semantic markup to Python-based template and JavaScript/AJAX development.

This position is for on-site, full-time work in New York City. Telecommuting is not an option. This is a 3-month minimum contract with potential for longer engagement.

Requirements:

• Extreme expertise in CSS and XHTML semantic markup, standards compliance, and cross-browser issues.
• Must have at least 2 years experience building dynamic, database-backed web applications (not just marketing sites).
• User interface design sensitivity and skills required. Must have experience collaboratively negotiating and quickly getting to decisions with product managers, visual designers, and engineers on desired visual layout versus technical limitations or effort; must be able to paper prototype UI mockups.
• Must be able to work closely and collaboratively (e.g., pair programming) with team members. This includes coordinating work with other team members as needed, and not hesitating to clearly expose impediments. Strong teamwork with lots of face-to-face communications is paramount.
• Must be able to take both direction and/or initiative where needed to help the team avoid pitfalls and solve the "whole problem" from the user’s perspective.
• Some form of dynamic language experience a major plus (PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby). Extra credit for experience in designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript, or with using JavaScript frameworks such as JQuery; experience using JUnit testing also a plus.
• Some CMS experience required; it's a plus if you have experience with MVC design pattern and/or templating frameworks such as Jinja, Genshi, JSP, Smarty (ability to adopt these is required).
• Must have experience integrating into an engineering team (ideally an agile development team) including adopting the team’s tools, frameworks, practices, and workflows.
• Hard-working and dedicated to meeting all commitments to the team, even if this requires extra time. (Example: you underestimate work needed to hit a team milestone, but put in the extra effort to get there on schedule.)

To apply, e-mail your resume and cover letter (no recruiters, please) to .

We're looking for a strong self-starter to take direction from Sales Team to design and develop Daylife Select and SmartMedia web applications for pre-sales support. You’ll design and style creative web applications to the prospective customer's look and feel using CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, and related web technologies. To do this you'll work closely on-site with our Sales Team to achieve pre-sales goals.

This position is for on-site, full-time work in New York City. Telecommuting is not an option. This is a 3-month minimum contract with potential for longer engagement.

Requirements:

• Extreme expertise in CSS and XHTML semantic markup, standards compliance, and cross-browser issues.
• Advanced JavaScript developer required with experience in jQuery or comparable. Extra credit for experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript, and JUnit testing.
• Must have at least some familiarity with Web 2.0 concepts and interactions.
• User interface design sensitivity and skills required; must have experience collaboratively negotiating and quickly getting to decisions with product managers, visual designers and engineers on desired visual layout versus technical limitations or effort; must be able to paper prototype UI mockups.
• Must be able to work closely and collaboratively (e.g., pair programming) with team members and have exceptional communication and multi-tasking skills. This includes excellent skills in coordinating work with other team members as needed, and not hesitating to clearly expose impediments. Strong teamwork with lots of face-to-face communications is paramount.
• Must be able to take direction, as well as take initiative where needed to help the team avoid pitfalls and solve the "whole problem" from the user's perspective. Experience and ability to work independently required.
• Dynamic language experience required, such as PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby.
• Extra credit for experience designing modular, object-oriented JavaScript, or experience with JavaScript frameworks such as JQuery or JUnit testing.
• Some CMS experience required; extra credit for experience with MVC design pattern and/or templating frameworks such as Jinja, Genshi, JSP, Smarty; ability to adopt these is required.
• Experience working independently required.
• Hard-working and dedicated to meeting all commitments to the team, even if this requires extra time. (Example: you underestimate work needed to hit a team milestone, but put in the extra effort to get there on schedule.)

To apply, e-mail your resume and cover letter (no recruiters, please) to .

We're looking for 1-2 part-time, short-term editorial assistants with solid understanding of the news industry and online media technologies. Your work will involve researching timely news topics and events, as well as light website content maintenance.

The position is on-site (with some flexibility), 20 hours per week in Soho, downtown New York City. The contract is short-term with potential for longer engagement. Payment is $10/hour. Great opportunity to build experience in digital editorial and publishing.

Requirements:

• Broad news awareness and understanding, across many categories.
• Web-savvy research skills (library science a plus, rock-solid editorial judgment a must).
• Must understand tools like Wikipedia and Freebase, and can seek and evaluate the quality of such data sources (as well as particular aspects of the data) for product development purposes.
• Must be able to take both direction and/or initiative where needed, and work independently.
• Must have your own laptop.

To apply, e-mail your resume and cover letter (no recruiters, please) to .