Full Stack MERN Developer

TypeScript / Node

• Experienced with TypeScript including generics / data structures, the differences between interfaces and types
• Experienced with configuring webpack in TypeScript based solutions
• Experience with Node.js development including event emitters, streams/backpressure or event loop

React / UI

• Proficient in creating custom React components from scratch, leveraging hooks, HOA and other core React features.
• Proficient in the concepts of Responsive Web Design and how to incorporate with React
• Proficient in implementing component frameworks leveraging CSS Modules, CSS in JS and Styled Components
• Proficient in developing Storybook stories, complete with mocked data

User Experience (UX)

• Proficient in incorporating the output of UX Design into the development lifecycle
• Proficient in Figma / Sketch in creating UX Designs, user flows and design systems
• Proficient in incorporating UX with Zeplin / Chromatic / Storybook

Test Automation

• Proficient in playing an active role in creating tests supporting the testing pyramid.
• Proficient in creating unit tests, mocks and fakes with established testing tools (e.g. React Testing Library, Jest)
• Proficient in UI Automation, complete with approaches to complex challenges such as file uploads

Integration

• Sound understanding of when to apply the various standards for browser to server, and server to service communications (e.g.: HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets, SSE, WebRTC)
• Experience in implementing both messaging and event-based integrations (RabbitMQ-AMQP and Kafka)
• Exposure to integration patterns
• Proficient in developing and consuming GraphQL both client and server side. (e.g.: schemas, resolvers, directives, queries, and mutations)
• Proficient in leveraging GraphQL subscriptions, SSE, and other approaches to incorporate asynchronous systems
• Experience in understanding benefits of cloud architecture patterns such a circuit-breaker, compensating transactions, competing consumers

Systems Design

• Proficient in implementing DDD based solutions, organizing code into contexts, implementing complex business rules, and leveraging domain or integration events
• Proficient in incorporating observability into systems - and optimizing for actionable information
• Proficient in development within a serverless architectures, understanding of how to optimize the Node event loop, memory usage and understand backpressure
• Excellent understanding of development best practices, including patterns of software architecture and enterprise patterns and how applies to cloud native development

Data

• Experienced in leveraging ORMs like Mongoose / designing schemas / indexes for both relational/SQL (PostgreSQL) and document/NoSQL (MongoDB) data stores
• Hands on experience building solutions with cloud storage providers such as Azure Blob Storage or Amazon S3 at the API level - and properly securing such solutions using SAS Tokens or Shared Access Keys
• Ability to construct complex queries in an efficient manner to facilitate both ad-hoc requests and complex data graphs. (e.g.: Aggregation Pipeline for MongoDB)
• Experienced in designing search schemas and maintaining a search index

DevSecOps

• Experience with principles and methods of DevOps, Agile and Lean
• Proficient in improving build/release pipelines with YAML and shell scripting and integrating cloud environment automation and the role security tools play in a CI/CD pipeline
• Exhibit analytical approach to selecting technologies aligning to the platform with ability to develop POCs to prove capabilities of technology
• Knowledge of least privilege principles including reasoning behind implementing service accounts and privileged accounts
• Experienced with cloud-based identity and access management providers such as Okta, Azure AD, etc.

Development General

• Experienced in understanding how cost and resource constraints impact approaches used system development
• Understanding of SOLID principles of software development and how to apply to everyday coding
• Experienced in leading developers, enforcing coding standards, and enforcing platform best practices
• Experienced in integrating solutions across cloud instances and hybrid solutions that leverage on premise infrastructure

Relevant Experience

• Experience in supporting live production systems and automated deployments to live environments
• Experience with GitHub, Azure DevOps etc. for source control, work item management and DevOps pipelines
• Experience in configuring Visual Studio Code for optimized JavaScript / TypeScript development with plugins such as Prettier and SonarLint
• Develops using principles of enterprise patterns (Service Layer, Domain Model, etc.)
• Participates in the design and coding of cloud native architectures - Understands challenges presented by a distributed server architecture
• Experienced in leading development teams in design discussions
• Experienced in implementation of security best practices
• Experienced in protection of PII data and supporting standards such as GDPR

Skills

• Understand data maintenance practices and data quality measurement
• Ability to assess the impact of new requirements on all upstream and downstream applications, systems, and processes
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary
• Self-motivated, independent, detail oriented and responsible team-player
• Excellent communication and writing skills, including the ability to interpret user requirements and generate technical specifications per SDLC standards
• Good organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment
• Passionate about building high-quality systems following software development best practices
• Strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
• Experienced in working on an agile / scrum development team. Knowledgeable with the scrum ceremonies and artifacts
• Works well in a collaborative, transparent environment
• Lead/mentor other developers and share knowledge through presentations

Responsibilities / Duties

Scrum

• Participates in all scrum ceremonies
• Develop thorough understanding of operational business functions
• Leads technical design discussions
• Participates in story pointing and task estimation efforts
• Leads the effort to break down user stories into development and testing tasks
• Updates system of record with work item history, hours spent and re-estimates work remaining on each assigned task
• Communicates with project managers, business analysts, scrum masters, product owners, business stakeholders and other team members to ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development

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