Software Developer - Front End (Citizens or GC only)

Job Title: Software Developer

Location: Urbandale, IA 50322

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Onsite

Visa sponsorship is not available, now or in the near future, for this position.

Pay Rate: $57.74-57.74/ Hourly/ W2

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the brand name of Deere & Company, an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment.

Job Descriptions:

Major Purpose:

• Works on a product team and supports product design by planning its work, coordinating with others, and writing and testing code to deliver moderately complex functionality on a complete product or significant portion of a product it supports.
• This level develops simple designs to solve well-defined problems with guidance from more senior team members.
• May assign, coordinate and review portions of the work to support personnel
• Makes decisions within established guidelines subject to review by supervisors
• Executes high level applications to more complex problems.

Major Duties:

• Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
• Evaluates and implements enhancement design solutions to improve cost, quality, and performance of software applications.
• Analyzes assignments and determines software specifications that must be fulfilled to achieve objectives.
• Executes necessary documentation, as directed, or needed.
• Collaborates with other relevant stakeholders and team members to ensure that features meet business needs.
• Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:

• Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
• Ability to apply engineering principles and concepts for designs.
• Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment

Education:

• Degree in an Engineering/Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience:

• Previous experience in programming/software development. (1 - 3 years)
• Software development processes experience. (1 - 3 years)
• Participating in Agile Development (1 - 3 years) Experience working in an Agile Environment (1 - 3 years)

Summary:

• This role is Front of the Font End Development.
• You will be joining a team that is supporting a Design System promoting consistent user experience across a large digital product.
• A stand-out quality in a past position would be experience in a design system/component library environment.

Skills:

Required:

• Deep experience in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, React JS, Node JS
• Candidate should have strong JavaScript experience – should understand at least at an intermediate level the foundations of JavaScript
• NodeJS. We use Node for our development environment, so understanding how that relates to building for the front-end is essential.
• React – should understand functional React components and hooks
• HTML/CSS – should have strong HTML and CSS skills, able to understand how the two interact, and how those interact with React.
• Responsive Web Design – understanding how layouts will respond at various screen sizes is essential
• Version Control – we use Git, but some understanding of concepts of distributed version control is necessary.
• TypeScript – should at least understand what it is, what benefit it provides, and how it relates to JavaScript.

Bonus Skills

• Testing
• Cypress component testing
• Visual Regression Testing
• CSS Preprocessors or CSS-in-JS tools
• SASS or LESS
• Emotion, Styled Components, etc.
• Material UI
• Engineering Practices – TDD, Software Automation, CI/CD
• Agile and XP
• Experience working in a design system/component library team
• Experience working on an internal tools team

Job Description/Responsiblities:

• Develops reusable components for a shared product design system.
• Analyzes requirements from 10-20 product development teams to come to a common, intuitive component API
• Works with product managers and UX designers to ensure component library meets the needs of the business and users.
• Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
• Executes necessary documentation as needed.
• Tests components across browsers and devices.
• Maintains the component library as a product and work with other teams to manage contributions.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.