Responsibilities

• Apply agile methodology, participate in sprint planning, standups, demos, and retrospectives
• Collaborate with product owners and team to groom stories, understand use cases, define success criteria, and estimate using story points
• Work closely with QA and other team members to define and implement test strategy
• Implement well-factored, scalable, secure production code to achieve story objectives
• Integrate third-party applications and services via API integration
• Run and monitor performance/integration/unit tests on new and existing applications
• Respond to critical bugs and customer support escalations
• Implement platform improvements for DevOps scalability and manageability
• Mentor junior development staff to maintain unit test coverage and code documentation
• Provide thought leadership for development best practices to contribute to a team culture of excellence

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience building web applications
• High proficiency in Javascript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases (ie., MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Experience with one or more back-end languages such as PHP, Python, NodeJS, Go or Ruby and MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Ability to multitask, take initiative, and adapt to unforeseen circumstances

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Experience working on a high-functioning Agile software development team
• Experience with highly-available, highly-scalable enterprise-level web applications
• Experience building and/or consuming REST web services
• Experience with Javascript frameworks such as Angular, Aurelia, Vue, and Ember
• Experience with DevOps technologies such as Gearman, Rundeck, Concourse CI, Kubernetes, Puppet, Chef
• Experience using Git for version control, applying the fork-and-pull-request workflow, and participating in code reviews