Looking for a front-end jedi/ninja/warrior/whatever

Pathfinder is recruiting! Although it's not yet listed on our career portal, we're looking to beef up the Ajax practice at our Chicago office with a talented front-end programmer. This person should be a jack of all trades, master of several, and flexible about which warrior metaphor to adopt for professional use.

Please give me a shout if the following describes you:

• You enjoy hand-coding complex DHTML and Ajax applications. JavaScript is your passion ...
• ... but not your only passion. You also make room in your heart for standards-compliant HTML markup and expertly crafted CSS.
• Speaking of CSS, you're chomping at the bit for CSS 3. Table-free, CSS-based layout is old hat to you.
• You've used more than a single browser and a single operating system in the last five years. You can debate the merits of Gecko vs. Webkit till the cows come home. You can rattle off browser bugs like the names of old high-school friends. The phrase "Opera 9.5 beta 2 on 10.4 Tiger" doesn't sound like nonsense to you.
• You've written production code using more than one open-source JavaScript toolkit and, more importantly, you know how to code without one. You have opinions about why Dojo is better than GWT (or vice-versa) and can intelligently discuss the pros and cons of jQuery vs. Prototype vs. MooTools.
• You're passionate about front-end developement as a discrete category of software engineering, but you can jump in on the server-side stuff when you have to. SQL, Apache and the command line don't scare you.
• You've worked with templating systems in JSP, Rails, PHP or some other framework.
• If you don't have direct experience with Flash, Flex, Adobe Air or Silverlight, you're at least willing to give such competing UI technologies a shot.
• You aren't necessarily a visual designer, but you don't need somebody who went to art school to swoop in and Photoshop a rounded corner or a background pattern for you.
• You have experience working for an Agile shop - or you desperately want to.
• You may not be an information architect, but you understand the world of user experience design. You're comfortable reading wireframes and requirements documents and participating in the design of complex software systems.
• You're not scared of acronyms like XML, XSL and XSLT.
• In short, you know how to put the "V" in MVC.

If this sounds like you, I'd like to take you out for lunch and a little chat about Pathfinder Development. See our jobs page for all the boilerplate about relocation, etc.

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