SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote
Rails full stack, focus on front end
I've been building two mobile-first Rails web apps using contractors for the past several months. The apps work and I have a good senior back-end Rails developer working for me adding new features. But I now need a new senior front-end Rails developer to help me upgrade/reinvent the UI/UX - particularly, making the apps look better, easier to use, faster loading, the flows more intuitive, and helping user onboarding. I need someone with very strong HTML5/CSS3/JS development skills for Rails apps to build out my ideas and improve performance.
The developer needs to be able to make changes directly to the Rails apps, including adding and changing automated Capybara/Test::Unit integration tests. Consumer-facing UI/UX design experience and interest is a plus, but is not required.
I'm looking for someone full-time, paid hourly, to work with me and the back-end engineer in a very agile, collaborative way, to improve the product and get it launched. I need the right person for at least 2 months, hopefully more.
I'm a self-funding, hands-on, full-time sole founder, with a strong business and computer science background. I'm based in Silicon Valley, and I need 1-2 hours overlap of working time each day for collaboration via live chat (HipChat).
The stack:
* Rails 4
* Bootstrap 3
* Javascript and JQuery. No front end framework currently in place
* PostgreSQL (relational) and DynamoDB (NoSQL) databases
It's mostly a server-side Rails apps that need some JS/JQuery for user input, validation, page transitions, widget integration
Target:
* Primarily HTML5 mobile web - primarily small screen sizes, iOS and Android devices
* It needs to work (but not necessarily be optimized/responsive for) desktop and tablet too
Tools:
* Git for version control
* GitHub for code hosting
* Code Climate for automated code quality review
* CodeShip for automated testing
* Heroku for app hosting
* Amazon RDS and DynamoDB for database hosting
* Amazon CloudFront for CDN
* HipChat for chat
* Trello for project management
Budget $35/hour
David &lt;at lab955 dot com
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