Tired of working in jobs that leave you unfulfilled because they don't create positive impact in the world? Come work for Zazengo, where each line of code you write helps people change the world.

Zazengo is a free, shared, online platform for inspiring, managing and tracking impact. We help everyone from individuals to international organizations by providing them with a set of self-organizing tools and a way of viewing the positive change they are making.

The platform matches user interest, location, skills and experience to suggest new projects, and employs syndication widgets and social networking applications to embed ‘awareness into action’ wherever it needs to be.

Zazengo is advertising and sponsorship supported, and shares revenue back with the ecosystem that is generating the traffic and leading the on the ground action. Zazengo turns constituency management from a cost to a revenue stream for not for profit orgs.

The opportunity presents many challenges. The Front-end UI Developer will be responsible for:

• Working on a daily basis in the codebase, implementing new features, improving existing ones, refactoring as needed.

• Working with the lead developer, and the back-end team to define/refine requirements and implement the technology plan.

• Collaborating with the designer to implement comps that are consistent across all major browsers.

• Being a core part of the in-house technology team, helping to maintain the live site while also pushing forward new development

Zazengo is largely virtual with most of the team residing in Santa Cruz, Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Boston.

Zazengo is seeking the right person to take our technical team and platform from beta through launch and scaling to sustainable profitability. The right candidate will combine the following:

• An excellent working knowledge (and love) of programming CSS, XHTML, and JS

• A strong understanding of emerging web technologies and best practices.

• Familiarity with working in the front-end side of Ruby on Rails, or other MVC frameworks.

• Strong background in working with open-source javascript libraries like script.aculo.us and prototype.

• A desire to produce pixel-perfect implementations with CSS, standards-based XHTML, and unobtrusive javascript.

• A passion for clean, simple, elegant and delightful design, at both the interface and code level.

• Complete familiarity with "standard" development toolset, such as SVN (Git would be a plus), Trac, Basecamp

• Familiarity with haml and sass will be a plus.

• Excellent writing and speaking skills.

• Experience in working collaboratively with virtual or largely virtual teams.