CW Front End Developer

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA’s family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role is located onsite at our TIAA office in Charlotte, NC, USA but will currently be remote.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 14 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-IT Applications Developer II
Develops, implements and assesses specific new and emerging technologies, platforms, and services.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Assessing the technical viability of emerging products and technologies.


• Working with developers and infrastructure specialists to test and evaluate new technologies.


• Participating in the development of business cases and obtaining approvals for capital expenditures.


• Monitoring and analyzing new technology product performance and resolving issues regarding potential improvements or modifications to complex situations, as needed.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 2+ Years Required; 3+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
6IC

The Application & Development Support job focuses on developing multiple types and categories of software including end-user applications and operating systems software, that provides a platform for running end user applications. While working independently with limited supervision, this job applies up-to-date information on the detailed technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Conducts requirements gathering and analysis to understand the domain of the software problem and/or functionality, the interfaces between hardware and software, and the overall software characteristics.

Consults with systems engineers and architects on developing IT standards for the business while facilitating the translation of client requirements into technical designs for large IT solutions.

Uses programming, scripting, and/or database languages to write the software code.

Models key business processes and critical paths while assessing the impact of technology on business processes.

Supports software testing, deployment, maintenance, and evolves activities by correcting programming errors, responding to scope changes, and coding software enhancements.

Maintains records for the documentation of systems development and revisions.

Coaches and reviews the work of lower level professionals.

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree Preferred

Work Experience

3 Years Required; 5 Years Preferred

Full-Stack Developer Skills and Qualifications

Front-end technology: Expertise in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 and third-party libraries such as React Js, Angular, jQuery

Development languages: Knowledge of server-side programming languages including Java and/or Python, experience building Java application using Spring

Database and cache: Familiarity with DBMS technology, including SQLServer, Oracle, MongoDB and MySQL and caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcached and Varnish

Basic design ability: Including knowledge of UI/UX and basic prototype design

Server: Experience working with Nginx or Apache Tomcat servers with a solid background in Linux, also experience using container Kubernetes technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift

DevOps: Familiar with CI/CD strategies and techniques.  Knowledge of deployment patterns like Canary and blue-green release.

Excellent writing and communication skills

Ability to visualize a proposed system and be able to build it

Start Date: 25-Oct-2021

End Date: 31-Dec-2022

Travel Required: No

Potential Salary: $103.48 USD

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

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