Company Name:
Midas+ Community Health, a Xerox Corporation
Company Overview:
Midas+ Community Health (formerly the Healthy Communities institute
before it became a Xerox corporation) provides community health data
visualizations for community coalitions, hospital and healthcare
organizations, institutes, universities, and city/county/state
governments. Our mission is to improve the health and environmental
sustainability of cities, counties and communities worldwide.
Central to increasing community benefit and environmental
sustainability is making current data understandable. We provide easy
access to visually understandable data that informs stakeholders,
policy makers and residents alike about the current health and quality
of life in their community.
We help to connect community members with experts and resources,
facilitating collaboration amongst residents, community organizations,
and policy makers.
We provide a vast database of promising and best practices and
community level interventions that have been tried across the world.
We are a multi-disciplinary team comprising healthcare information
technology veterans (professional internet-system developers and
evaluators), academicians (health informatics experts, urban planners,
epidemiologists) and former senior government officials. The company
is rooted in work started in 2002 in concert with the Healthy Cities
Movement and the University of California at Berkeley. Our management
team from Harvard University, Cornell University and the University of
California, Berkeley has expertise in informatics, public health,
urban sustainability, community planning and high volume Internet
sites.
Company Website:
http://www.
Job/Internship Title:
Web Developer
Job/Internship Description:
Midas+ Community Health Solutions, a Xerox company, is seeking a full
time front-end Web Developer. The front-end Web Developer will work
closely with a small but diverse web development team, and will take
on a leadership role in producing an attractive, consistent, flexible
and user-focused design framework, while also performing regular web
development tasks in PHP. Our software-as-a-service requires intuitive
and compelling data interfaces that must serve very disparate
contexts, from a handful of locations and data points to many
hundreds, if not thousands. We’re looking for someone who enjoys
challenging work, collaborative problem solving, sharing their
expertise, and having some fun in the process!
While formally part of Xerox, we are a small business unit
conveniently located in downtown Berkeley near the UC campus, BART and
other transit options. Some telecommuting is possible with this
position but candidates are expected to live in the Bay Area within
commute distance of Berkeley. Excellent benefits. Salary commensurate
with experience.
Required Skills:
REQUIRED:
Bachelors degree
Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience
Demonstrable proficiency in PHP, SQL, and JavaScript
Expert-level knowledge of HTML and CSS
Experience with SASS/Compass or similar CSS compilers
Experience with mobile / responsive design
Experience with jQuery or similar Javascript libraries
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Experience working in Linux/Unix command line environments
DESIRED:
Experience with Bootstrap CSS framework
Proficiency with Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.
Experience with cross-browser testing
Familiarity with 508 compliance, accessibility
Familiarity with PHP frameworks such as Zend, Symfony, etc.
Experience with Subversion (SVN) source control
Interest in community health
Type of Position:
Paid
Weekly Hourly Commitment:
Full-time
Application Instructions:
Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to the dev team
manager, aaron@healthycities.
SUBMISSIONS WITHOUT A COVER LETTER WILL NOT BE REVIEWED.
