Front-end Developer / UX Designer

We’re looking for a designer / front-end developer to build and own innovative web applications using advanced JavaScript and advanced CSS with a desire to achieve good design, usability, accessibility, performance, and mobile/responsive web pages. You will be responsible for sound technical execution of web projects through hands-on development, quality-assurance, and prototyping. These projects will require close collaboration with our engineering team. In particular, you'll have: * A passion for doing things the right way. A defendable opinion on what comprises the “right way” is a major plus. * Demonstrate that you’ve built outstanding websites from concept to launch. * A keen eye for interaction design and finishing touches. * Advanced level knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5. * Understanding of user-centered design, progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, accessibility, SEO, responsive design, and website performance. * Proficiency with Ruby, Rails. * Experience with CSS preprocessors like SCSS. * Understanding of A/B testing. This is a 3 month contract, to help us deliver and launch version 2 of our platform. Please send over github profile and hourly rate.