Front-End Developer (UI)

AKTA is Chicago’s leading product design studio, specializing in UX / UI design for web, mobile and touchscreen platforms. We work with the hottest startups and innovative brands to create bleeding edge experiences their users will love.

We are a young, passionate team of designers that live and breathe by brilliant user experiences. We work in a 4000 sq. ft. office in Chicago’s artsy River North complete with a pong table, bar, nerf guns, bouncy balls and more white board walls than you can count.

Required Skills

• Ability to work in a team environment, from making pixel perfect sites that meet the design requirements to integrating code with the back-end development team.
• Strong working knowledge of Photoshop; able to cutup comps from the design team.
• Strong XHTML skills; knowledge of how to use appropriate hooks in XHTML to limit the amount of classes and ID’s required on a page.
• Deep understanding of CSS inheritance and how to use it to your advantage.
• A good ideology for managing maintainable, scalable and cross-browser code across large sites.
• Familiar with source control principles and comfortable with Subversion.
• In-depth knowledge of stupid IE quirks and how to address them.
• Tons of experience working with jQuery and/or other JavaScript libraries.

Bonus Skills

• Social App Development - Experience in building social sites or apps (Facebook, etc.)
• Progressive examples of HTML5 usage