Entry Level Front End Web Developer Jobs in Chester, VA

About Collabera:

Established in 1991, Collabera is one of the fastest growing end-to-end information technology services and solutions companies globally. As a half a billion dollar IT company, Collabera's client-centric business model, commitment to service excellence and Global Delivery Model enables its global 2000 and leading mid-market clients to deliver successfully in an increasingly competitive marketplace. 

With over 8200 IT professionals globally, Collabera provides value-added onsite, offsite and offshore technology services and solutions to premier corporations. Over the past few years, Collabera has been awarded numerous accolades and Industry recognitions including.

• Collabera awarded Best Staffing Company to work for in 2012 by SIA. (hyperlink here)
  
• Collabera listed in GS 100 - recognized for excellence and maturity
• Collabera named among the Top 500 Diversity Owned Businesses
• Collabera listed in GS 100 & ranked among top 10 service providers
• Collabera was ranked:
• 32 in the Top 100 Large Businesses in the U.S
• 18 in Top 500 Diversity Owned Businesses in the U.S 
• 3 in the Top 100 Diversity Owned Businesses in New Jersey
• 3 in the Top 100 Privately-held Businesses in New Jersey
• 66th on FinTech 100
• 35th among top private companies in New Jersey

http://www.collabera.com/about_us/accolades.jsp

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

Job Description Overview: 

This is a contract-to-hire position. Candidates must be eligible, open & willing to full-time placement offers.

Would like to see a stable employment history. Would be concerned if we see job-hopping or engagement-hopping.

Ideally, candidate would be local to the Richmond region. Current COS is not supporting relocation, but I would consider minimal assistance for the right candidate.

We are not looking for "lead" level people - more mid-level to low level. 

So candidates who are expecting to step into a technical leadership capacity may be disappointed.

Role Summary/Purpose: 

Client is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work on a number of exciting projects that will have a very positive impact on client's business. 

Essential Responsibilities: 

You will be responsible for programming a feature and or a small feature set. 

You will contribute to the team and works with direction from the Senior Team Members or management but works independently. 

In this role you will: 

Act as a member of the Software Center of Excellence, representing the face of high quality design and development practices.

Develop high performing, scaling and innovative end-to-end web applications.

Collaborate with system engineers, frontend developers and software developers to implement solutions that are aligned with and extend shared platforms and solutions.

Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques.

Writes codes that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.

Build features such as web services and Queries on existing tables.

Understand performance parameters and assess application performance.

Work on core data structures and algorithms and implement them using language of choice.

Business Acumen: 

Have a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructure needed to run a large distributed web application.

Has the ability to break down problems and estimate time for development tasks

Has the ability to make basic technology choices based on experience.

Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry.

Leadership: 

Has the ability to take ownership of small tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary.

Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. 

Uses data or factual evidence to influence 

Recognizes collaborative behaviour and participates in collaborative activities.

Learns organization vision statement and decision making framework. 

Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision

Qualifications/Requirements: 

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in software development.

Desired Characteristics: 

Experience working with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum, XP) 

Dedication to quality 

Strong problem solving abilities 

High energy, results driven person with strong interpersonal skills 

Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with more senior co-workers and leadership with confidence and clarity

Able to clearly articulate and document software designs 

Must be receptive to feedback and guidance. 

Comfortable working in a team and interacting with others. 

Technical Expertise: 

Strong knowledge of OOD/OOP software design patterns and principles 

Strong knowledge of Java 6+ and Java open-source software components 

Experience with JUnit and writing unit tests 

Experience with multiple Spring technologies such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Spring MVC, etc.

Comfortable working in the presentation-tier. 

HTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, AngularJS.

Web Services experience in REST (JSON, WADL) and SOAP (JAXB, WSDL, XML) 

Knowledge of Relational Database modeling and concepts (SQL, referential integrity, etc.)

Experience with Relational Database Management Systems such as Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle.

Experience with Java Object-Relation Mapping (JPA, Hibernate, EclipseLink, OpenJPA).

Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB is a plus 

If you are interested you can reach me at ujjwal.mane(at)collabera.com and can give me a call at 

973-805-7557