Senior Engineer – IT Application

Job Description

Senior Engineer, IT Application

Location: Remote

Visa Status: USC/GC

Length: 6-month contract only

Hourly: $60-$75 per hour (can be flexible for the right candidate)

Interview Process/Timeframe:

• Spark Hire Interview
• 1.5-hour technical interview with hiring manager and developers.  Will need to code and share their screen.

Team Size: 18 people on the team, split into 4 categories: Web, Customer Portal, Internal and Technical.

Notes:

• Must be extremely proficient in Java Script and Type Script
• Must be extremely proficient in Vue JS
• Must be skilled in building libraries
• Must be skilled in building APIs
• Need to be experienced and intelligent and able to hit the ground running

Position Summary: Join a growing team of web developers to create and maintain client-side applications with server-side interactions via Push/REST/GraphQL. Our applications provide essential functionalities to customers such as remotely arm/disarm and control home automation devices, paying bills, ordering equipment, and retrieving crime statistics.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the cloud/devops/design/QA teams to develop/test/release web applications.
• Lead and or participate in code reviews and release preparations.
• Update project dependencies as needed.
• Research and communicate recommendations to improve code quality product architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine business requirements, as well as design, develop, and test application code to ensure that business requirements are met.
• Develop, maintain, and support the applications.
• Program, test, and implement mapped graphic images, forms, and HTML pages.
• Responsible for evaluating, developing, and maintaining web applications.
• Assist in program design, coding, benchmark testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Create services that communicate with the Cloud via Push/REST/GraphQL
• Develop responsive UI components and content modules.
• Write scalable, testable, and maintainable code.
• Configure/modify build tools as needed.
• Maintain healthy collaboration with adjacent team members.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field. (Masters preferred)
• 8-10 years of web development experience

General Requirements:

• Research, evaluate, and recommend new Internet tools and applications based on product requirements.
• As appropriate, may liaise with outside vendors to coordinate code development and acceptance.
• Coordinate, execute, assess, and troubleshoot software programs and applications.
• Strong communication skills required (English)
• Agreeable and with drive toward conflict resolution with peers
• Creative problem solver
• Leverage strong front-end technology skills to develop and maintain web applications.
• Assist in program design, benchmark testing, debugging, and documentation.

Required Technical Skills:

• HTML5
• REST and SOAP APIs
• Vanilla JavaScript (ES6+) and ES6 Modules
• Front-end JS frameworks (Ember.js, Backbone, AngularJS)
• Vue 2.6.11, State Management and dependencies (Axios, Vuex, Vue Router, Vuetify, Vuelidate, Vuetify)
• JS Build tools (Grunt/Gulp/Webpack) and Transpilers (Babel)
• CSS, Bootstrap & CSS Preprocessors (LESS, SASS)
• Package Managers, like NPM/Bower
• Unit testing frameworks (Jasmine, Mocha, Jester)
• Image optimization tools and techniques
• Back-end frameworks (NodeJS), Redis
• GraphQL/oAuth 2.0 APIs

Additional Technical Skills:

• LDAP / SSO / MFA
• Experience with SQL databases and writing queries.
• Comfortable working on the command line (Mac/Linux)
• Comfortable configuring web servers (Apache, Nginx)
• Greenfield experience
• Experience working with server-side languages.
• Experience with Bamboo, Bitbucket Pipelines or other CI tools
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools
• Experience with Docker (Local development)