Careers @ InstaScribe

Web and Graphic Designer and Developer

We are looking for a versatile designer to join our team and help us in creating and maintaining a great interface with the users.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include

  • Design all our marketing communication including newsletters and landing pages.
  • Design marketing merchandise like mugs, t-shirts, even invites, fridge magnets, coasters etc.
  • Update and maintain our websites (InstaScribe, Pothi.com and others)

You may also get opportunities to work on

  • Book interiors and covers
  • UI and UX of InstaScribe and Pothi.com
  • eBook design

Skills Expected

  • Excellent web-design and development skills. You need to eat and breathe HTML5, CSS, Javascript libraries, Bootstrap, font-awesome et. al.
  • Good graphic design skills
  • Any python/django experience will be an added advantage

Our Strengths

  • We have a history of shipping code that solves real problems and is used by paying customers. See pothi.com.
  • We have a good understanding of the publishing domain.
  • We are bootstrapped.

What can you expect

  • A comfortable working environment and reasonable people principle. Our leave policy is "let me know in advance".
  • We would pay you the best we can afford as per your abilities.

How to contact us?

If the above sounds like a place you like, we would love to hear from you. Do write to us at jayajha@instascribe.com with any/all of the following (in the order of preference):

  • Your portfolio
  • Your resume
  • Any live websites/products you have designed that we can check

Internships

We offer summer and semester-long paid internships in software development.

The Technical Stuff

We hack in Python – Django/Flask, celery, Fabric. Vagrant for testing/staging environments. On the frontend, we have Backbone/Marionette.js and Twitter Bootstrap. We do not practice TDD but believe in testing and want to do more of it. We have a ~2.5 click deployment. ;-)

What can you expect

  • A well-scoped out project which you can finish and deploy in production during the internship
  • Regular code-reviews and feedback to help you write production-quality code
  • A fun and comfortable working environment
  • Stipend!

What we need from you

  • Competence in and passion for coding
  • Knowledge of or willingness to learn python/django and frontend technologies
  • Willingness to work on full stack

How to contact us?

If you like what you read above, we would love to hear from you. Do write to us at career@pothi.com with any/all of the following (in the order of preference):

  • Any public links to your involvement in programming/code/Geek culture. Examples:
    • Github, Bitbucket, Google Code profiles
    • Links to open source software you have contributed to
    • Mailing lists
    • HackerEarth, CodeChef, spoj
    • Hacker News profile, Stackoverflow contributions
    • Talks given in HasGeek events, Pycons, BarCamps etc
  • Any code samples you can (legally) share but not publicly
  • Link to your updated LinkedIn account
  • Your resume in PDF