Front End Developer

Description

Description Prescreen question We are looking for a selfstarter Senior 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 customerfacing products that will drive the next generation of Delta Dental Digital Experience.
Your primary focus will be the development of all serverside logic, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend.
You will also be responsible for integrating the frontend elements built by UI Developers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of frontend technologies is necessary as well.
You will communicate with customers and deliver high performing, resilient and intuitive suite of applications that create awesome customer experiences.
You will work and collaborate with crossfunctional 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.
About The Team
We (Customer Experience group) are responsible for making Delta Dental of Californias new Shopping, Buying, Self Service and Provider Directory search experience amazing.
Skills/Experience Required Skills BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
5+ years of experience designing and developing secure consumerfacing web applications.
Advanced level knowledge of JavaScript and Functional Programming.
2+ years of extensive experience building production application with Node.js
2+ years of Full Stack FrontEnd experience. Solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3.
Proficient in building and consuming of Restful Web service, JSON based request response.
2+ years of experience working with popular JavaScript tools and Frameworks (like Gulp/npm, 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 lowlatency, highavailability and performant applications.
Proficient with writing unit test case using any of the testing framework like 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 usercentered design, progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, accessibility, SEO, responsive design, and website performance.
Experience with Scrum, Agile Process
Desired Skills 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.