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Senior Front-End/React/Nextjs Developer

Location: Hybrid/ Overland Park, KS/ Chicago, IL / Urbandale, IA / Manassas, VA / Wilmington, DE (Must be from these states)

MoI: Video Term: Direct Hire/Full Time

SKILL MATRIX: Total IT experience: Years working with: Front end React Developer Years working with: Experience in customer-facing applications Years working with: Next.js Years working with: GraphQL, and Node.js

KEY FOCUS: We need a senior (10+ years) React developer with experience working with Nextjs. This position is 80% Front End development and 20% backend development. Candidates can sit in any of the below locations and go into the office four days a week. Client needs someone with experience in customer-facing applications, backend systems requirements, integrations, and delivery. Will primarily involve React, Next.js, GraphQL, and Node.js

Job Description: A Staff Engineer at client is the continuation of an individual contributor role that begins to focus on the scaling of engineering. The person in this role is responsible for the design, development, modification, analysis and implementation of software programming applications for the various subsidiaries of the corporation. They are responsible for updating and/or enhancing existing software capabilities applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.

Core Responsibilities:

• Perform code review upholding best practices and architectural patterns (25%)
• Design new software engineering implementation patterns for consumption at scale (25%)
• Solving complex business challenges leveraging new and existing technology (35%)
• Creating system documentation and mentoring junior team members (10%)
• Perform recruiting screening and technical assessments of incoming candidates (5%)

Other Duties:

• Promote innovation with the courage to challenge norms.
• Tackle complex problems using simplification and experimentation.
• Guard product quality through diligence in security, performance, and observability.
• Aggressively seek out technical debt, in both process and code, and ideate on faster delivery.
• Maintain and refine metrics for engineering success. Advocate for these through code review.
• Invest in mentoring team members. Nurture growth in autonomy through critical thinking, problem analysis, and technical maturity. Proposes software solutions.
• Develops, designs, and edits original applications, or modifies third-party applications.
• Tests and approves applications.
• Analyze and define software requirements to determine specifications and standards; provides feedback on business requirements to fully leverage technology to improve business functions.
• Produces significant new system functionality or defect resolution with minimal direction.
• Can perform adequate peer review on any changes in the system.
• Can be consulted to provide recommendations to solve business issues based on experience and knowledge of current technology.
• May provide rotating on-call support of production systems.
• Partner with the various subsidiaries to create a vision for future advancement of our applications.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years' experience in java or object-oriented programming
• 7+ years of React experience
• 5+ years of Nextjs experience
• 5+ years' experience in an agile environment
• 5+ years' experience in integrating systems through APIs
• Ability to communicate complex ideas into technical implementation requirements
• Experience working in an agile environment focusing on iterative delivery
• Ability to convey complex problems (technical or organizational) concisely, accompanied by thoughtfully proposed solutions
• Performs work independently.
• Uses advanced techniques, theories, and processes to complete work.
• Software Development Life Cycle experience.
• Ability to thrive and produce results with little or no supervision in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to interact seamlessly at all levels with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Superior problem solving and analytical skills.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related discipline. Equivalent experience and/or alternative qualifications will be considered.