Front End Developer

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Description

We're a small digital design and development agency that makes apps, websites, and other fun stuff in the Wicker Park area.

We're looking to grow our small but mighty development team. You'll get to work on range of projects, for a great list of high profile clients (James Patterson! Sesame Street! Tony Montuano!) as well as some of our own homegrown products and services.

You'll be working with our creative team to concept, create and perfect the things we make for our clients, building responsive, emotive, interactive web sites and apps.

Skills & Requirements

We're looking for a web developer to add to our development team.

You'll be converting the sometimes weird, wonderful designs our creative team kicks out into full sites, so we prefer developers with a very solid understanding of things like type, layout and user experience.

We're a project shop, so you should probably enjoy jumping around on different things, and getting a fresh start every few weeks. This is definitely not a position for people who love to focus on making one thing awesome, but for people who enjoy the challenges of making lots of things pretty awesome, who like to evolve their toolset and approaches over time.

Really, the "ideal" candidate only needs to know four things:

  • HTML (but not "Dreamweaver" HTML. "Hand-coded, semantic, well formated HTML")
  • CSS (including all the new, vendor-prefixed, sort-of-works-in-some-browsers-but-never-in-IE stuff)
  • JavaScript (Backbone and jQuery required)
  • Photoshop (you don't need to be a guru, but you should understand that Layer-based slices are a gift and should be treasured.)

    We should note that we do not consider "I know Bootstrap" to be a valid answer to any of these questions.

    We do things by hand here.

    Other bits we'd love if you knew, but if you don't we'll just teach you them in your first week:

  • SASS and/or LESS (we tend to use Bourbon)
  • Git
  • JIRA, and the zen of bug tracking

    And there are some bits that, if you know, we'll be pleasantly surprised:

  • Any programming language, with a preference for Python or Go.

    About Mess

    We may be a bit biased, but it's a great place to work. We strive to keep a semblance of work/life balance, and do some pretty neat things like take the whole company camping at a pretty rad participatory arts festival, or racing shopping carts in the Chiditraod in the winter.

    We're sort of like a startup without all the pretensiousness, buzz-words and pivoting.

    We offer all the basics benefits wise (health, dental, a vast assortment of snacks, etc.).
  • Start date
    ASAP
    From
    Mess
    Published at
    25.09.2015
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    989611
    Contract type
    Freelance
    Workplace
    100 % remote
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