I am a Web Developer

A quick note before we start: This blogpost complements our job opening in which we are looking for front end developers to work with us on ongoing and future projects. I have the impression that Edenspiekermann is mostly seen as a design agency and not as a happy place for developers – so I decided to give some background on everyday work from a developer’s perspective.

It was January 2011 when I came to Edenspiekermann’s Berlin office as a webteam intern, followed by a period as a freelance developer I am now employed full time. I am 24 years old and I have a B.Sc. in computer science & media from BHT Berlin. Front end web development is my profession and I strive to deliver semantic markup, to-the-point CSS in conjunction with snappy performance to guarantee a top-notch user experience. I love gadgets, enjoy trying something new every day and playing with the latest technologies. Edenspiekermann gives me room to do just that, in a friendly environment, with awesome clients and inspiring colleagues working on small and large projects. In the past 1.4 years I have written thousands of lines of markup and stylesheets, several jQuery plugins, a chrome extension, a windows screensaver (duh!), very little PHP, lots of Ruby with Padrino/Rails and countless lines of JavaScript/CoffeeScript. At Edenspiekermann we like to dive into modern web technology. We use Haml for markup, Sass for CSS and develop mostly in Ruby as a server side language. We are not fixed on these tools though, they just represent our status quo – every single member of the team can introduce a new technology or framework and if it is better suited to get the job done, we will go ahead and use it.

Let me give you an example: When Lukas Hodel joined us earlier this year and suggested to use backbone.js for a major project (sorry, NDA forbids any details) we gave it a spin and it turned out to be the perfect choice. A different client needed to use Django as a CMS and we are happily coding python based front end code for weeks now. As a developer you are involved in these choices and you can really make a difference and move the team forward, every single day.