Software Engineer

Who are we hiring? 

The Software Engineer will be a key member of the Digital Technology Engineering team responsible for the architecture, development, troubleshooting, implementation, and enhancement of new and existing web applications and platform (microservices), as well as supporting frontend and backend technologies, including React, CSS, NodeJS, and Express. You’ll join a team of experts in software engineering technologies such as those mentioned as well as Amazon Web Services, serverless platforms and frameworks, and automation. In additional to software development, you will also be contributing your expertise to optimizing our agile processes and product development, including assisting in requirements gathering and analysis. You’ll work with a focus on performance, stability, maintainability, functionality, and observability, which will often involve implementing or instrumenting both custom and third-party solutions.

What will you do?

• Build UIs in React, Redux, CSS, HTML, and other technologies using Webpack with ESModules.
• Build services in NodeJS with Express and/or serverless/microservice technologies such as Lambda, while providing RESTful APIs.
• Write “clean code,” following our conventions, standards, established design patterns, and best practices.
• Manage our source code in Github, keeping our commit history useful and clean.
• Actively participate in and contribute to all Scrum ceremonies and take personal responsibility for the success of each Sprint.
• Collaborate with other developers of all levels.
• This is an individual contributor role, but may coach team members and lead development efforts

What do you need to succeed? 

• Expert knowledge of technologies, such as vanilla JavaScript and TypeScript using ES6-ES2020 language features, CSS3 and HTML5.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of hands-on development experience with JavaScript, with advanced understanding of design patterns and best practices.
• A minimum of 2 years creating services and APIs in NodeJS with either Express or AWS serverless technologies like Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience building performant UIs with ReactJS and Redux.
• Proficiency with web app tooling technologies. We use Webpack, NPM, git/Github, Babel, Create React app, SCSS, PostCSS, as well as others.
• Experience in working on Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL.
• Proficiency with any of these testing frameworks and libraries: Jest (or similar, like Karma or Jasmine), Mocha, Chai, Sinon, CucumberJS, Webdriver IO.
• Can effectively work with command line tools.
• Experience of ESLint configuration. We use JavaScript Standard Style and AirBnB.
• Experience working in a cloud-only environment, specifically in AWS.
• Experience contributing to the velocity of an Agile Scrum team.
• Some understanding of the basics of caching, including CDNs, in-memory caches, or page and database caching.
• Proficiency in PHP, Ruby on Rails, or Python.
• Experience working with a headless CMS or custom Content tooling.
• Knowledge of ElasticSearch and its APIs and JavaScript or PHP SDKs.
• Understanding of any of these caching technologies: CDNs (like CloudFront), in-memory caches (Redis, Memcached), page caches (like Varnish), or object caching
• GraphQL knowledge
• AWS or Agile Scrum certification.

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