Sr. Frontend Developer

Role: Sr. Frontend Developer

Location: Berlin, Germany

Is it Permanent/ Contract: 6 months contract

Is it Onsite/Remote/Hybrid: Hybrid or Remote

Language: German

Job Overview

Plans, designs, develops, and tests user interfaces and user experience components for IQVIA's products.

Provides user experience design, usability, evaluation and testing expertise to product development teams.

Develops and codes prototypes, beta and end applications and systems for user interface and user experience elements based on user experience specifications, requirements, and design standards.

Essential Functions

• Plans, designs, develops, and tests user interfaces and user experience components for IQVIA's products.
• Provides user experience design, usability, evaluation and testing expertise to product development teams.
• Develops and codes prototypes, beta and end applications and systems for user interface and user experience elements based on user experience specifications, requirements, and design standards.
• Ensures the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Performs technical review of proposed design and product changes for feasibility, integration with existing technical architectures and systems, and alignment with desired user experience and design standards.
• Provides technical guidance and coaching to peers.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance existing user interfaces for our core products
• Design, develop, test, validate, and debug new user interfaces
• Develop the transfer layer from UI to the backend
• Plan and design new user interfaces using wireframes
• Conduct code reviews for other UI developers
• Write unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mockito
• Support the development of user acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver and the Concordion framework
  
  

Primary Skills

• Strong Java coding skills along with proficiency in Vaadin – this is mandatory
• Experience with Spring framework (dependency injection, transaction management)
• Proficient in JUnit and Mockito for writing test cases
• Fluent German skills, otherwise, willingness to improve existing German language skills – B2/C1 level should be okay.
• Experience with IntelliJ
• Proficient in Git (Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab)
• Experience with Maven
• Knowledge of HTTP and REST
  
  

Other Details

• Both working options are possible. Hybrid (located in Bochum or Berlin) as well as fully remote
• Shift Timings: Flexible working hours. Team’s core working time is between 10am and 4pm.
• Time zone: Berlin, Germany (CET: UTC 1, CEST: UTC 2).
  
  

Other Good-to-have Skills

• Understanding of UX design principles
• Experience with JPA/Hibernate, MSSQL-Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with integrating applications to SSO solutions using OAuth2 or OIDC
• Experience with browser automation using Selenium WebDriver
• Test design experience with the Concordion framework
• Experience with other UI frameworks like React
• Experience in UI development for mobile applications
• Familiarity with Windows or MacOS environments