Full Stack Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

This positionis for a Full stack end to end web application developer who can develop bothback-end infrastructure, Web UI, supporting API endpoints for the front-end, designingand maintaining a highly available and efficient media and data repositorysystem. Optimizing our applications for scaleand speed in imaginative and innovative ways will also be a significantfunction of this position.

Responsibilities :

• Build, scale and maintain our services and web based applications
• Think cross-device and cross-platform, mobile, tablet and desktop while developing front-ends.
• Collaborate with team members to deliver web based applications with both client side and server side functionality
• Work with internal and external customers to define new features that will drive our business
• Contribute to our team’s growing set of development platforms, tools, and processes
• Contribute to user and support documentation when relevant
• Research open-source technical possibilities and options
• Participate in support / troubleshooting discussions, calls and provide technical expertise to support person and customers

Profile and optimize new and legacy code.

Integrate and build for external and internal API's.

Mentor junior intern programmers on programming projects.

Essential Qualifications

3+ years experience and proficiency with LAMP stack, solving challenging problems and implementing newfeatures from scratch.

3+ years using HTML, CSS, Javascript,jQuery, Bootstrap components and implementing responsive design for the web

2+ years of data migration,transformation and scripting experience in the Linux environment

Be comfortableworking outside the context of a framework.

1+ years experience with writingsearch queries and managing data fields using Apache Solr

1+ years of Unit and Acceptancetesting experience

Familiar withimplementing application level security and implementing best practices for theweb and SQL

Experienceoptimizing SQL and profiling legacy code

Experience using sourcecontrol (Git) and code-deployment workflows

Experience building REST services aswell as writing clients for integrating with public and private APIs

Demonstrated strong oral and writtencommunication skills

Strong interpersonal communicationskills, including explaining technical issues to non-technical users

Appreciate and respect diversity ofpeople, ideas, and thought to create a cross-culturally competent community

Excellent organization skills andhigh attention to detail

Ability to be self-directed, takeinitiative and to work as part of a team; Ability to set priorities inalignment with organization and product needs

Ability to work in a professionalenvironment and serve as a role model to student employees

Criminal history background check

Some off-hours andweekend activities may be required.

Preferred / Nice to have but not Mandatory skills are as follows;

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree OR an Associate'sdegree with Major in computer science, information technology or related field.

Additional two years experience inLAMP stack and Javascript,

Experience building mobileapplications

Prior experience working in AWS environment(EC2, S3 and Glacier for storage)

Experience working on Javascriptlibraries, HTML5 media player, video tags, using FFMPEG and streaming servers

Experience working on digital assetmanagement systems or digital repositories (Fedora commons) and media (videostreaming formats, audio)

Experience working with buildingredundant and data caching systems using Redis

Experience with log data aggregationand analysis techniques.