Senior UI Developer

Senior UI Developer
100% Onsite
Contract / Full Time

About The Role

We are looking for a self-starter Software Engineer with excellent technical expertise to help us build our Next Gen Consumer Applications Suite.

• Design, develop and maintain highly scalable & responsive consumer applications supporting high traffic volumes
• Be part of an engineering team that builds and supports amazing customer-facing products that will drive the next generation of Delta Dental Digital Experience.
• Solid understanding of UX and UI responsive design with an emphasis on maximizing usability and accessibility.
• Design, develop, and maintain responsive, accessible web applications providing user experiences on desktop and mobile devices. Write high quality front-end with attention to scalability, security, and performance.
• You will work and collaborate with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, developers and automation engineers on our agile team.
• Continuous learning to stay current with the changing JavaScript ecosystem landscape.

Job Requirements

• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of experience designing and developing secure consumer-facing web applications.
• Advanced level knowledge of JavaScript and Functional Programming.
• Expert level knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Responsive web design, Accessibility (WCAG 2.0 AA)
• 2 years of extensive experience building production application with Node.js
• Proficient in building and consuming Restful Web service, JSON based request response.
• 2 years of experience working with popular JavaScript tools and Frameworks (like Gulp/Webpack, ejs/handlebar, Angular.js or React/Redux or Ember). ReactJS is preferred.
• Experience building responsive Single Page Web Applications.
• Good understanding of design principles to build a scalable application.
• Strong experience with the design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability and performant applications.
• Proficient with writing unit test case using any of the testing framework like Jest, Mocha, Chai, Jasmine etc.
• Proficiency with Chrome and/or other browser Developer Tools.
• Proficiency with Git/Github or other distributed version control systems.
• Understanding of user-centered design, progressive enhancement and graceful degradation and SEO.
• Experience with Scrum, Agile Process

Nice to have

• Experience with developing and monitoring applications in cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform)
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Understanding of Relational, No SQL databases.
• Experience with Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with Linux environment & container technology such as docker.
• Experience with logging tools like Splunk or ELK.

Experience with distributed cache like Redis.