Developer - Front End

Responsibilities:

• Front end web development using modern techniques and frameworks (e.g., HTML5, CSS, CSS frameworks like LESS and SASS, Responsive Design, and those mentioned in Technical Skills).
• Creating and upgrading semantic HTML layouts using latest HTML standards.
• Experience with organizing information, content, and functionality of a web site so that it presents the best user experience it can, with information and services being easily usable and findable.
• Consuming RESTful APIs and ensure front-end interoperability with the target Java web application server environment (e.g., Spring Framework, Spring Boot, MVC, WebFlux, Test, Oracle, SQL, MongoDB).
• JavaScript development using modern standards, including strict mode compliance, modularization techniques and tools, and frameworks and libraries (e.g., jQuery, MV* frameworks such as Backbone.js and Ember.js, D3).
• Creating web layouts from static images.
• Creating views and templates in full-stack frameworks like Rails, Express, or Django.
• Writes software that adheres to organizational web, accessibility, and multi-lingual standards.
• Consider impact to 508 compliances when pulling Epics from Product backlog to Program backlog.
• Refactoring text copy into file formats commonly used for localization (i18n).
• System Analysis, Design and Development.
• Design, build, and implement software applications, remediate defects, support activities to setup / validate infrastructure environments in support of Application team.
• Authoring developer-friendly documentation (e.g., API documentation, deployment operations).
• Communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Conduct alternative analysis on software approved within the application boundary.
• Create and maintain code comments, Wikis, and other development artifacts in support of the application team.
• Create and/or provide input for design artifacts for inclusion in design documents.
• Follow Test-drive development (TDD) paradigm by creating and maintaining unit tests.
• Ensure design conforms to technical solution of the platform and program.
• Operate in a DevOps environment comprised of Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, NPM.
• Quickly researching and learning new programming tools and techniques.
• Assist automation test team with development of automation regression tests, as needed.
• Assist performance team with development of stubs and simulators, as needed.
• Remediating defects and providing Tier 3 level support.
• Support packaging of software as required.
• Use of version control systems, specifically Git and GitHub.
• Using and working with open-source solutions and community Senior developer – coach, train, and mentor other developers, both IRS and contractor, in all aspects of software development, as needed.
• Encourage and support collaborative work amongst all team members, both IRS employees and contractor employees. Ensure IRS developers and/or tech advisors are intimately engaged with all software development tasks on a regular basis.
• Produce clear, concise, centralized, organized, and easily accessible documentation for current and future reference utilizing existing IRS tools, for example OneNote and README files. This should include system architecture diagrams, flow diagrams, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, Swagger docs, JavaDocs and other diagrams as appropriate. This documentation should be written so that future technical resources can easily assimilate and understand the referenced topic. This documentation should be consolidated and contained within a systems-level, holistic documentation suite, with a hierarchical structure that is easy to navigate and understand at both the high and detailed level. Format, location, and paradigm of this documentation to be collaboratively defined along with AD management and tech advisors.

Minimum Requirements:

• 5 years of experience with these Client Development tools: Node.js, NPM, Babel, Webpack, JavaScript, React, Create React App, Jest, Testing Library, Selenium
• 5 years of experience with these standards:
  • Web: CSS, HTML5
  • Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 (Section 508/WCAG 2.0 AA) and WAI-ARIA
  • Multi-Lingual: Accessibility Standards (a11y), Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Strong communication skills