Front-End Developer

The working place would be in the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT), directly supervised by Prof. Samuel Kaski, based in Otaniemi.

 

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Job Description

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We are looking for a candidate with strong skills in user interface design to create a web-based application. The application will be a user interface for our novel state-of-the-art information browsing system based on machine learning. The interface will be a research project and not for market; the software development model will be rapid prototyping. As such, concepting and information design skills will be an important contribution of the candidate.

 

The system is composed of several modules, and the user interface is a key component in it. As developer of the UI, you will work closely together with human-computer interaction and machine learning experts toward a functioning application. You will also have the responsibility for connecting the user interface web application to the other modules through the APIs; inter-process communication is realized through a RESTful JSON API.

 

The work will be carried out as a freelance position. The projected duration of the user interface development is approximately a month of full-time work.

 

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Requirements

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Necessary:

 

Passion for creative user interface design

- evidence of work

- preferred experience areas: website, mobile app, or game development

 

Desirable:

 

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in

- HTML5, JavaScript, CSS

- Client-side libraries; for example, jQuery, AngularJS.

- Python, PHP

 

Other valuable skills include

- skills in graphic design, vector graphics, illustration

- experience of version control systems, e.g., Git or Mercurial.

 

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Response

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Please send email to xuran.zhao@aalto.fi and benjamin.cowley@ttl.fi, describing why you would like to be considered for this role, attach a CV and examples of work, or links to examples before 30 June 2014. Late applications could still be considered if the position has not been filled.