Carrer

Front End JavaScript / UI Developer

LENGTH: 6 months

LOCATION: Eagan, MN

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

This position will conduct technology evaluation and recommendation, mentoring developers through hands-on assistance as well as formal and informal training and some technical development. Work with business and development team in identifying, designing, and developing technical architecture solution components. As a technical leader, the job requires a pragmatic visionary that can translate business needs into workable technology solutions that scale both technically and operationally and also raise the engineering and operational standards. This position will also be responsible for application performance from performance modeling, to performance measuring/profiling, to performance tuning. 
Primary Job Duties 
• Senior-level research, design and development of computer software systems. 
• Analyses software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. 
• Provides design recommendations and options, develops and integrates programs per specifications. 
• Provides assistance in researching and adopting new and emerging technologies, evaluating new tools, technologies and platforms to be included in projects. 
• Estimates effort required for own work, and checks and agrees other team members' estimates. Accountable for planning work assigned to their team, including work breakdown, accurate estimate and identification of possible solution options. 
• Accountable for tracking status of team's work and ensuring deliverables are produced on agreed schedules. Responsible to communicate accurately the status of ongoing work to stakeholders. 
• Sets timeframes and schedules to meet business needs. 
• Presents status updates for various projects to project management and senior managers. 
• Ensures self and team develop modules using disciplined processes, adhering to industry standards and best practice guidelines. 
• Works with vendors to understand technology and performs technical due diligence on third party technology delivery. 
• May have cost responsibility for own team/project, and/or contribute to forecasting budgets and recommending expenditure without being fully accountable for them. 
• Identifies ways to improve the operation of own area and to achieve efficiencies and results and assists in process improvement. 
• Provides technical guidance to team members. 


Qualifications / Requirements 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. (Master's degree preferred.) 
• 8+ years of software engineering experience. 
• Strong programming language skill and passion for developing in Javascript 
• Great technical and problem solving skills 
• Knowledgeable in various software design patterns and be able to apply appropriate design patterns to solve business/technical problems. 
• Experience using latest version of Angular, with ability to pick up Angular 2.0 quickly 
• Strong java development experience as this position requires developing across the stack: 80% of time will be on the front end, with 20% on the JAVA services 
• AWS Cloud experience is nice to have, but not a requirement 
• Familiarity with triple stores especially Stardog and Empire also nice to have, but not a requirement