Customer Web Developer (React) - ASCENDING

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid 2-3x a week)

Top 3 skills:
-React
-Typescript
-Core Front End Web Development (HTML\CSS\JavaScript)

We are looking for experienced team members with the versatility and enthusiasm to work across technologies and a desire to work on an ever-evolving team. As a Software Engineer, you will collaborate with technology peers and business partners to design, build and deploy new software using agile/XP/test driven development using a wide range of technologies and solutions. You will be focused on developing well-designed, efficient code that adheres to the latest industry standards and assist in coding, testing, and debugging new software or making enhancements to existing software for customers. You will be working with designers, developers, and product owners in a small team setting to integrate software components into fully functional software systems spanning multiple business areas.

Individuals with this role are required to:

• Design and build highly complex software solutions using agile/XP/TDD.
• Program well-designed, efficient code independently.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build software solutions
• Clearly communicate team wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.
• Participate in paired programming and code reviews with juniors to expand the team’s collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.
• Complete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.

Software Engineer must possess:

• A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).
• 5+ years of previous experience in software development. Ideally has a portfolio of work – code samples, etc.
• Significant familiarity and comfort in using IDEs. Knows short-cuts and frequents operations that speeds up development time.
• Deep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing APIs.
• Significant understanding of cloud-native software engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with a several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.
• Experience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.
• Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.
• Familiarity and able to comfortably work with multiple platforms.
• Experience turning complex ideas into user stories. From that, can turn user stories into workable solutions, providing estimates to complete that work, and breaking down complex work into smaller components.
• Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.
• Deep understanding of development cycle.
• Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.
• Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.
• Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.
• Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.
• Understanding of cyber security principles such as authentication, authorization and encryption. Ability to leverage and recommend common security libraries applicable to their language stack and solid experience with secure programming best practices. Knowledgeable of common attack vectors, such as SQL injection, Denial of Service (DoS), Cross-Site Scripting, etc. and methods to limit exposure. Quick to identify and remediate potential security vulnerabilities.
• Experience working with one or more CI/CD stacks and associated best practices. Ability to setup CI/CD for new products with no guidance. Recommends and implements modifications to CI/CD processes when continuous improvement opportunities are identified.
• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.
• Coach and mentor software developers.
• Provide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.
• Learn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.

Additional Basic/Required Qualifications

• Strong experience developing scalable web applications using HTML, CSS, TypeScript, React
• Strong understanding of web fundamentals like semantic HTML forms and markup
• Proficient working with git version control
• Proficient in writing unit/integration tests with Jest, Cypress or other framework.
• Experience implementing and testing accessibility (a11y)
• Experience using and configuring build tools (Gulp, Webpack, Vite/esbuild, etc)
• Experience defining and maintaining coding standards with eslint, prettier
• Strong team player that works well with others
• Self-motivated and at ease in a constantly changing environment
• Understanding of further reaching technical concepts (API’s, modular concepts, modular CSS, JS etc.)
• Comfortable troubleshooting and debugging issues independently across different parts of the application
• Effective communication skills and the ability to engage with technical and non-technical individuals across the organization

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience developing or supporting Sitecore CMS.
• Experience supporting web applications and content management systems.
• Experience with CI\CD tools - Jenkins, Tosca, GitOps etc
• Experience with Mobile web development, SEO, Analytics.