Jr Front End Developer at Encora in Remote

Are you a developer who has embraced modern web technologies and is happy writing TypeScript and JavaScript in frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue deployed in a cloud platform such as AWS? Do you enjoy working on a team, on the full breadth of web application development, from APIs to enterprise grade user-interface development? Do you keep up to date on emerging technologies to help with your career growth? Are you growing your skillset by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations? 

 

If this sounds like you, we can’t wait to meet you. We’re actively seeking a Cloud Native Web Developer to join our talented team of consultants.  You will be operating as a lead developer helping make design decisions and recommendations for our customer. 

 

What’s in it for you? 

As a Junior Front End Web Developer, you’ll be creating web-based solutions using best-in-class cloud technologies to solve our clients’ challenges. You’ll tap into your extensive experience with web-based tools and cloud services to take a central role in the construction of intuitive web-based applications.  Along the way, you will rapidly augment your existing experiences with additional experience across industries and disciplines.  You won’t be focused on one technology or application layer.  Rather, you’ll be an invaluable asset to your team by taking responsibility for application components and developing across all layers of client solutions. 

 

You will be working with cross functional teams supporting the portfolio of web applications highlighting our customers products and brands. 

  

Your Responsibilities 

• Coding, debugging, and supporting cloud-based applications 

• Performing unit, integration, and system testing 

• Designing, implementing, and consuming RESTful web APIs 

• Creating elegant user interface solutions 

• Collaborating with fellow team members to help solve technical challenges they’re facing 

• Taking ownership of individual components within an application 

• Complete in-depth peer code reviews following industry best practices to ensure that all code bases remain clean, maintainable, and efficient 

Your Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)  

•  experience as a Software Engineer or Associate Software Engineer 

•  web development technologies and tools (HTML5, CSS3, CSS frameworks, Responsive Web Design, JavaScript frameworks, etc.)  

• Proficient in object-oriented development and design patterns 

• Extensive experience with React (or similar technologies such as Next, Nuxt, TypeScript, Vue, or similar) 

• Experience using build tools like Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Bower, or similar 

• Working knowledge of automation tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, or similar 

• Proficient in the review of source code 

• Well-versed in the art of Git source control or similar 

• Exposure in the use of serverless technologies such as AWS S3, ECS, Cloudfront (or similar technologies such as GCP Cloud Functions or Azure Functions) 

• Understanding of using RESTful web APIs  

• Superb written and oral communication skills  

• Experienced in Test-Driven Development, unit testing, and clean code 

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, self-motivated and excellent presentation skills   

• Ability to effectively work both autonomously as well as on a team 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Consulting experience 

• Experience pulling content from Content Management Systems such as Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful or others. 

• Deep background working in an Agile methodology to develop software 

• Knowledge of software architecture design patterns  

• Proven ability to assist in leading small to medium sized development teams 

 

 

Notes: 

Heavy front end development - see description 

Plus the following skills for backend: React, AWS, and Node or Python   

Working with React Router would be a huge plus