Full Stack Developer - Vital Tech Solutions

Job Title: Full Stack Developer 

Location: Remote

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.

Looking for a highly motivated Full Stack Engineer to join our team at an exciting time. Our client is committed to building innovative technologies and future-proofing our business to stay ahead in the ever-changing digital landscape. We are seeking a passionate individual who is excited about working on cutting-edge web applications built on AWS. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical skills, a deep understanding of software development life cycle methodologies, and a keen eye for detail.

Outcomes and Activities:

• Design and develop full-stack web applications using various programming languages, frameworks and libraries
• Develop RESTful APIs and integrate front-end with back-end services
• Implement user interfaces with responsive design principles
• Write unit-tests and functional tests to ensure code quality and reliability
• Optimize web applications for scalability, performance and security
• Design and implement databases and data models to support the application
• Contribute to the design and architecture of the application and suggest improvements
• Conduct impact analysis of changes on the entire web application stack
• Learn and apply new web technologies and best practices to continuously improve the application
• Document the architecture, design, and code for future reference and maintainability
• Troubleshoot issues in production and provide effective solutions
• Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in Agile practices
• Lead continuous learning activities to improve design and code quality as well as to increase application domain knowledge
• Participate in talent selection process and mentor less experienced engineers
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other engineers.

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Development: Develops solutions using standards and best practices of the applications language. Writes code that implements the design that is testable, extensible, efficient and maintainable.
• Impact Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical ecosystem.
• Solution Design: Ability to translate high level requirements to create and implement designs that meet the needs of the customer, are technically sound, maintainable and cost effective. Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements. Ability to design at both high and low levels of abstraction, understand complex requirements and translate into understandable solutions. Ability to accurately estimate based on requirements.
• Technical Domain: Have an understanding of the technical domain, including the application architecture, design and data of the application they support and systems to which it interfaces.
• Facilitation Techniques: Organize, support and/or conduct workshops, meetings, presentations specific to the objectives of each, problem to be solve, and needs of the audience.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering
• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of software engineering talent across multiple applications
• Practical experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall
• Experience in data modeling, design and messaging
• Experience in building web-based applications on AWS or other public cloud platforms
• Proficiency in front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.)
• Experience with server-side technologies such as Node.js, Python, or Java
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and experience in developing and consuming them
• Experience in developing and deploying containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automated testing

Preferred:

• Knowledge of AWS services and tools, particularly in building web-based applications
• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker
• In-depth usage and creation of application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks in their particular field: JSON, Rest/SOAP based Web Services, JUnit, Jenkins and Bitbucket preferred
  
• Experience in API security, analytics, throttling, caching, logging, request and response modifications
• Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger or similar tools desirable
• Financial services industry experience
  

Vital Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action employer. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits promotions, training, termination or any other condition of employment or career development.

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other legally protected status.