MetaSpring, LLC is an Ann Arbor based creative and technical web consulting firm.
We currently have openings for a Web Programming intern with excellent opportunities for advancement.
Please send all applications to jobs@metaspring.com.
Applicants Should Include the Following Information
Along with your resume, portfolio, and cover letter - please answer the following questions:
- Are you familiar with current web trends? Send us a list of your 3 favorite websites and explain your choices.
- Are there any blogs you subscribe to or read regularly?
- Tell us one random fact about yourself - really, it can be anything!
Please send all applications to carson@metaspring.com.
Why should you want to work with MetaSpring?
- Be a part of something exciting and challenging, not another cog in the corporate machine.
- You'll be working with people who care about where they are and what they're doing.
- You crave working in a fun and fast-paced environment.
- You have a passion for what you do, and a drive to learn more and improve your skills.
- You drink a lot of tea or Starbucks DoubleShot Energy+Coffee drinks.
We are looking for someone who understands (and wants to better understand) current trends in social media and has a strong desire to learn how to effectively market online.
As MetaSpring's Web Marketing Intern, your work would include optimizing sites for search engines, managing SEM campaigns, ghost blogging for clients, etc. Familiarity with HTML and CSS would be very helpful for stylizing blog posts and other web content, but is not necessary. And any experience with designing for the web would also earn you some brownie points.
- Search Engine Optimization
- Social Media Marketing
- Press Releases
- Adwords Management
- Blogging
What we'd like to see:
- Excellent communication skills and a flair for the written word
- An active online persona
- Experience with current social media trends and an understanding of web marketing tools
- Experience researching and writing blog articles
- Highly organized, goal-oriented individuals, with the ability to multi-task
- Energy, innovation and creativity
Brownie Points For:
- Experience developing front end components utilizing XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience creating templates for Wordpress
- Knowledge of Photoshop, Flash, etc
- Familiarity with the Mac development environment
Along with your resume, portfolio, and cover letter - please answer the following questions:
- Are you familiar with current web trends? Send us a list of your 3 favorite websites and explain your choices.
- Are there any blogs you subscribe to or read regularly?
- Tell us one random fact about yourself - really, it can be anything!
Start Date: Flexible, ASAP
Compensation will be paid at an hourly rate based on skill.
This is an Internship with the potential for more permanent hire after 3 months.
In-house is preferred, but telecommuting would be considered for highly experienced individuals.
We are looking for someone who understands (and wants to better understand) the current trends in web, print, and identity design.
As a MetaSpring Design Intern, you'd be working with our Lead Designers to create supplemental interface elements, integrate content, and develop HTML / CSS templates. The ability to design a full fledged website interface would be beneficial, but is not absolutely necessary. Any experience with designing for print would also earn you some brownie points.
MetaSpring prides itself in providing cutting edge designs, leveraging current trends with solid design chops to create designs with a clean, spacious and intuitive visual presentation.
- Designing website elements for a wide variety of client styles
- Slicing complete design templates for the web and implementing them into standards compliant HTML / CSS
- Content Integration and CSS Stylization
- Browser testing
- Basic SEO implementation (sitemaps, meta data, 301 redirects, etc.)
What we'd like to see:
- Design is communication, so we expect our designers to have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Creative Suite 3/4
- A clean and spacious design style
- Best practices driven HTML / CSS experience preferred
Brownie Points For:
- Illustration / Graphic Design experience
- Flash Experience
- JavaScript / jQuery familiarity
- Print design experience
- Familiarity with Ruby/Rails and/or PHP
- Design for iPhone / iPad, Android, etc.
- Familiarity with the Mac development environment
Start Date: Flexible, ASAP
Compensation will be based on merit.
This is an Internship with the potential for permanent hire after 3 months.
In-house is preferred, but telecommuting would be considered for highly experienced individuals.
This is a Full Time position with room for flexibility.
We are looking for someone who understands (and wants to better understand) the current trends in web, print, and identity design.
As a MetaSpring's Design contractor, your work would include developing creative solutions for our clients design needs in a variety of styles and disciplines. Familiarity with HTML and CSS would be preferred, but is not absolutely necessary. Any experience with designing for print would also earn you some brownie points.
MetaSpring prides itself in providing cutting edge designs, leveraging current trends with solid design chops to create designs with a clean, spacious and intuitive visual presentation.
- Designing website templates for a wide variety of client styles
- Creating new and unique brand identities, creatively updating existing branding
- Slicing designs for the web and developing clean HTML / CSS templates
What we'd like to see:
- Design is communication, so we expect our designers to have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ninja-like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Creative Suite 3/4 skills
- The ability to translate client described concepts into a beautiful and memorable brand identity
- A clean and spacious design style
- Best practices driven HTML / CSS experience preferred
Brownie Points For:
- Illustration / Graphic Design experience
- Flash Experience
- JavaScript / jQuery familiarity
- Print design experience
- Familiarity with Ruby/Rails and/or PHP
- Design for iPhone / iPad, Android, etc.
- Familiarity with the Mac development environment
Start Date: Flexible, ASAP
This is a Contractor / Contract for Hire position (based on experience).
In-house is preferred, but telecommuting would be considered for highly experienced individuals.
We are looking to hire a web programming intern with a drive to learn and improve.
You would be working closely with our Chief Technology Officer to create custom web applications and reusable components.
Skills we are looking for:
- Standards compliant HTML / CSS
- SQL
- Javascript
- Experience with MVC architecture
- Wordpress Blog and CMS templating
- Linux System Administration
More we'd like to see:
- Fluency in at least one modern programming language
- Ruby on Rails experience
- Experience or interest in functional programming
- Plugin development / contributions to open source
- Excellent academic record in computer science
If you only have some of the skills listed above but have talent and passion for programming and are a self-motivated learner, we'd like to hear from you.
Please send a cover letter, resume and code sample to jobs@metaspring.com.Start Date: Flexible
Compensation will be paid at an hourly rate base on skill.
This is an internship with the potential for more permanent hire after 3 months.
We're looking for entry-level Ruby / Ruby on Rails / web developers with an eye for detail and a drive to learn and improve his or her skill set while working in a fast-paced environment.
With MetaSpring, you'll be working with our Lead Developers to provide supplemental functionality, create HTML / CSS templates, and conduct QA testing. You'll also be working with our designers to tie in slick and usable front end interfaces.
- Developing custom application functionality and implementing existing open source plugins
- Creating standards compliant HTML / CSS templates
- QA Testing
- Basic SEO implementation (sitemaps, meta data, 301 redirects, etc.)
What we'd like to see:
- An understanding of and experience with Ruby, Rails, the MVC framework, and Agile Development process
- Experience developing front end components utilizing XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, JSON and microformats
- Experience with MySQL and database architecture
- Experience with cross-browser development and all of the fun challenges that this entails
Brownie Points For:
- A passion for usability
- Knowledge of or experience with PHP, Perl, Django, Drupal, etc.
- Solid communication skills
- Knowledge of Photoshop, Flash, etc.
- Experience developing for the iPhone / iPad, Android, etc.
Start Date: Flexible, ASAP
Compensation will paid at an hourly rate based on skill.
This is an Internship with the potential for permanent hire after 3 months.
In-house is preferred, but telecommuting would be considered for highly experienced individuals.
This is a Part Time position.
We're looking for Ruby / Ruby on Rails developers with an eye for detail and a drive to learn and improve their skill sets while working in a fast-paced environment.
With MetaSpring, you'll be developing a diverse range of dynamic, Web 2.0 applications and working with our designers to tie in slick and usable front end interfaces.
- A solid understanding of the web from philosophical foundations to the nuts and bolts of its implementation
- The ability to create good abstractions that actually get reused
- Experience developing front end components utilizing XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, JSON and microformats
- Experience delivering non-trivial production-ready Ruby on Rails code
- Experience with MySQL and database architecture
- Exceptional problem solving skills
- Experience with cross-browser development and all of the fun challenges that this entails
- A familiarity with Agile Development practices
Brownie Points For:
- A passion for usability
- Knowledge of or experience with PHP, Perl, Django, Drupal, etc.
- Solid communication skills
- Knowledge of Photoshop, Flash, etc.
- Experience developing for the iPhone / iPad, Android, etc.
Start Date: Flexible, ASAP
This is a Contractor / Contract for Hire position (based on experience).
In-house is preferred, but telecommuting would be considered for highly experienced individuals.
We're looking for ASP.NET contractors with an eye for detail and a drive to learn and improve their skill sets while working in a fast-paced environment.
As a MetaSpring contractor, you'll be developing a diverse range of dynamic, Web 2.0 applications and working with our designers to tie in slick and usable front end interfaces.
What we'd like to see:
- A solid understanding of the web from philosophical foundations to the nuts and bolts of its implementation
- The ability to create good abstractions that actually get reused
- Experience delivering non-trivial production-ready ASP.NET / VB.NET / C# code
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and database architecture
- Experience developing front end components utilizing XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, JSON and microformats
- A familiarity with Object Oriented programming and Agile Development practices
- Exceptional problem solving skills
Brownie Points For:
- Knowledge of or experience with Ruby, Ruby On Rails, PHP, Perl, Django, Drupal, etc.
- Experience with cross-browser development and all of the fun challenges that this entails
- Solid communication skills
- Experience developing for the iPhone / iPad, Android, etc.
Start Date: Flexible, ASAP
This is a Contractor / Contract for Hire position (based on experience).
In-house is preferred, but telecommuting would be considered for highly experienced individuals.
Do you want to use your HTML/CSS skills for awesome? We're looking for a web assistant to work closely with our designers and developers to translate their work and direction into clean, cross-browser compatible HTML and CSS. You are the glue, the grease between the gears, you are like the little dots inside of the ying yang, you tie it all together harmoniously.
- Photoshop design slicing
- HTML/CSS template creation from sliced PSDs
- QA testing
- Browser testing
- Basic SEO implementation (sitemaps, meta data, 301 redirects, etc.)
- Blogging!
What would be extra awesome:
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience developing front end components utilizing XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience creating templates for Wordpress / Joomla would be a plus
- Knowledge of Photoshop, Flash, etc
- Basic familiarity with MVC framework a plus
- Knowledge of Ruby, and Rails or Merb would be great
- Experience researching and writing blog articles
- A flair for the written word
- A passion for usability
- Familiarity with the Mac development environment
