SEEKING FREELANCER
Location: New York, NY
Title: Junior Developer
Job Responsibilities: Maintaining existing applications, skunk works development, prototyping, technical and feasibility research.
Employer: JAKT
About JAKT: JAKT was founded in August of 2012. We are a small team that works extremely fast while maintaining the highest quality of work. We started as a web development shop and have since expanded to also provide UI/UX design, mobile development, print design and business consulting (strategy and marketing) to our clients. Our bread and butter is custom application development. You can read more about us here <a href="http://www.byjakt.com/#about" >.
Telecommute: Available
Culture: Aggressive and fast paced work environment. No shortcuts to success, match your potential.
Skills:
- Unix / Linux command line proficient
- OS X power user (can you quit Finder?)
- Proficient in one of: Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript.
- Experience with one or more web frameworks. Django / Rails a plus. Express a plus. Multiple frameworks plus plus.
- Database knowledge is nice (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB)
- Library knowledge (standard lib of your favorite language, frequently used packages)
- Documentation ability (Write English to go with your Ruby)
- Understanding REST and how to work through 3rd party API's
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly. We work with a variety of clients and because we build custom solutions, we often times need to incorporate new technologies. The ability to pick up new technologies and apply them directly to client projects is a huge plus.
Salary: Negotiable depending on skill set/experience.
Start Date: Immediate
If interested please email REDACTED_EMAIL. Please include some of the following:
* A short paragraph about yourself
 * Resume
 * GitHub profile
 * Links to any applications you have built
 * Interesting achivements or open source work
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