Software Engineer (JavaScript)

We are seeking a highly engaged and motivated JavaScript Engineer who is passionate about continuously improving their skills and learning new technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong JavaScript/TypeScript background and possess exceptional communication skills. This is a growth position within our organization. In this role, you will have the opportunity to enhance your skills working with GraphQL and API design. You will be responsible for researching data source APIs, designing GraphQL schema, and implementing resolvers. You will be surrounded by a team of experienced engineers with a team mindset who are ready to work together to build amazing things.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Technical Leadership:

• Trains and/or mentors other team members and peers as appropriate.
• Ability to liaise with multiple teams to steer projects from inception to successful delivery.
• Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures, or other cost/resource estimates as requested.
• Identifies opportunities to enhance the service delivery processes.

Delivering Technology:

• Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for service delivery processes and projects.
• Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of service providers.
• Validates completeness of requirements before service provider solutioning.
• Ensures all projects follow the defined development and business case processes.
• Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams.
• Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development.
• Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels.
• Coordinates with Application Delivery and Infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities.

IT Governance:

• Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i. e., IT Governance, SMG, Architecture, etc. ) and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed.
• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk.
• Ability to assess when risks need to be escalated to the right channels.
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes.

Requirements:

• Self-motivated and results-driven, with a passion for learning and growth.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• JavaScript and TypeScript as your primary development language.
• Experience with modern front-end or back-end web technologies and frameworks.
• Proven track record of working with scalable, high-quality web applications.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile (SCRUM) process.
• Strong understanding of data structures and software design patterns.
• Deep understanding of the difference in capabilities (such as orchestration, filtering, sorting, etc. ) that GraphQL provides over REST.
• Knowledge of when to best apply those capabilities.
• 2+ years designing and building APIs.
• 2-4 years contributing to JavaScript projects (strong knowledge of ES6).
• Server-side GraphQL API design.
• A desire to create a great GraphQL schema.
• Ability/understanding of how to use containerization (Docker) for Node.js apps.
• Performance tuning experience.
• Technical writing experience.
• QA Automation experience.