Fullstack Developer

JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science video solutions with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning. Our institutional clients comprise over 1,000 universities, colleges, and biopharma companies, including such leaders as Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford. As a rapidly growing company, with offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and India servicing clients in over 60 countries, we are seeking talented and ambitious individuals to join our company.

Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our team, working closely with the global content platform and new initiatives team. Your primary focus will be on developing new products, creating prototypes, and exploring novel use cases with emerging technologies. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with product managers and the platform team to drive innovation, rapidly develop new applications, and push the boundaries of what's possible with cutting-edge tech. If you're passionate about pioneering solutions and want to shape our company's future through creative exploration of new possibilities, we want you on board.

Responsibilities

• Take a lead role in the full software development lifecycle for assigned applications, encompassing design, hands-on engineering, prototype development, and code reviews.
• Mentor and guide engineering peers while driving transformation within various technology domains.
• Serve as an engineering leader on an agile team, focusing on building scalable software solutions through consistent development practices, including tools, common components, and documentation.
• Lead and manage code reviews, ensuring high-quality codebase.
• Promote engineering excellence, particularly in the realm of automated unit testing.
• Collaborate closely with product owners to define product and engineering roadmaps.
• Tackle software debugging and identify code defects for remediation.
• Oversee the deployment, support, and monitoring of software in both development and production environments.
• Contribute to the automation of deployment processes in various environments.
• Work towards ensuring that all applications can scale and explore self-healing solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with web application frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, React, or similar. GraphQL experience is a plus.
• Experience with data-driven architecture and systems design, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency utilizing SQL, NoSQL, in-memory, and distributed SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, AuroraDB)
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs, external frameworks, and libraries
• Expert-level understanding and implementation of cloud-native architectures (AWS serverless or containers preferred) at scale in production
• Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy application development
• Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally)
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools
• Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.
• Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to and be a voice of reason.

Why Join JoVE?

• When working with JoVE, you can expect salary and benefit package competitively placed within the local market
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and in improving student learning in science education
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us

Our Client is focused on democratizing Insurance through technology. It is a cloud-based platform connecting distributors to the Insurance Ecosystem to sell and manage Insurance programs. They are creating a middleware connecting consumers, traditional insurance institutions, intermediaries, and service partners on a single platform. Basically, give distributors the ability access to the entire Insurance ecosystem via 1 API / 1 platform.

Their goal is simple - Provide a new way to do Insurance, which is secure, easy, and focuses on the consumer while staying compliant with the frameworks laid down by the regulator.

Description

This is a mission-critical role. They are a small, diverse, agile and high-performance, engineering team. They are looking for versatile developers who will:

• Innovate their existing product and work on creating tools that crunch integration times and time to market
• Improve through peer-learning and transmit them to the firm's dev ecosystem.
• Take ownership and get the job done.

They are clear. They need role shapers, not role takers.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for design, development and delivery our web-based application in an agile manner built on Java Spring Boot, React, My SQL and Mongo DB.
• You will be expected to write code on day-to-day basis while testing it on real world use cases
• You will be an independent owner of your feature on the platform.
• You will be a part of the core software development team and are expected to participate in all development cycles.
• You will be responsible for closure of business requirements end-to-end by working cross-functionally and will be expected to mentor and drive other members of the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer / Technology domain.
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a start-up environment/ building SaaS products.
• Excellent coding skills with ability to deliver in a hyper growth phase.
• Hands on experience in JAVA and practical experience in developing and designing scalable software solutions.
• Excellent Problem-solving skills & understanding of data structures in a complex environment.
• Extensive experience in Spring, Hibernate and SpringBoot
• Experience in building REST Services
• Experience in integrating third party APIs (Payment gateways, SMS gateways, Accounting software APIs, APIs of CRM tools etc.) into web applications
• Experience in working with SQL and no SQL DBs (Preferably Mongo DB)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker is a plus
• Knowledge of how insurance processes and past experience in working on insurance applications is a plus.

Your Tasks:

• Participate in all aspect of operation and application support.
• Work primarily in Java-on-Java Spring and web frameworks like Bootstrap and Vue.js.
• Engage and collaborate across time zones with different front-end and back-end developers.
• Working closely with your teammates on knowledge sharing and experience build-up.
• Drive development best practices with your teammates to deliver high quality solutions. 

  Your profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering with strong communication skills.
• 4+ years of experience building large-scale software applications or web applications
• Strong knowledge of Full-Stack development with Java Spring Framework and established web frameworks Bootstrap, Vue.js, React or AngularJS.
• Experience of different data stores and search engine solutions like Apache Solr or Elasticsearch and designing and implementing API web services (RESTful and SOAP-based)
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment whiles providing operational support capability.

What you need to have:

• Collaborate with internal teams and the Solution Architect to discuss software design and architecture and best practices.
• Learn & work on POC's of trending technology along with the Solution Architect

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Ensures the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards
• Contribute development activities into various projects
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Should be able to identify, categorize, parse out, articulate and fix problems that occur in applications
• Should understand concept of iterative development and leverage DevOps tools for CI & CD
• Form strong working relationships with your peers and across the team
• Mentoring and educating less experienced team members in related technologies using methods such as informal training, pair programming etc
• Project Participation

• Early adoption of trending technologies
• Proactive communication/soft skills

• Deep knowledge of OOPS, and RESTful API services.
• Experience using well-known JavaScript frameworks and libraries, such as React / Angular / Vue etc.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following technologies - PHP, NodeJS, .NET
• Knowledge of DevOps (Containerization / Jenkins Pipeline, etc.)
• Ability to write and high quality and secure code and understand performance issues
• Experience with database systems, with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL stores (e.g., MySQL, Oracle / MongoDB, SQL Server, etc.)
• Experience on cloud related technologies (AWS / Azure) could be add-on.
• Proficient in multiple stacks of technologies / systems / tools and focus on building depth and breadth of skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to build a work plan or parts of a work plan, as applicable for role
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

• Development - .NET Core | PHP | HTML5/CSS | Angular | React | VueJS
• DevOps - GIT, Jenkins
• Cloud – AWS | Azure
• Database – Oracle | Mongo DB | MSSQL | MySQL | PostGreSQL

• Team Player
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions
• Ability to communicate well in English
• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply
• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive technologies
• Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset
• Creating a positive environment within the team
• Strong team player and be a technical lead for the team.
• Challenge the status quo

• The technologies you will be working with are C#, .NET Core 3.1, Entity Framework, Kubernetes, Angular 2+, Typescript/Javascript, SQL Server, XUnit Testing Framework, Azure DevOps (Git).
• Collaborate with the team to design, build, test, and ship high-quality API and solutions.
• Help evolve the technical roadmap as well as our core software development principles.
• Identify multiple innovative solutions to solve day-to-day development problems.
• Assist in mentoring and supporting the next-level team.
• Work in an Agile development environment to implement user stories as well as assist teammates with their tasks.

What You'll Need

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, experience in designing, developing, and maintaining software or an equivalent level of work experience, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact.
• Must have an understanding of SaaS software development practices.
• Must have experience working in a microservices environment utilizing Kubernetes and Docker.
• Must have experience working with GIT source control management.
• Cope with change and evolve with technology platforms as needed.
• You are a wizard with HTML/CSS.
• Experienced in developing C# applications utilizing .NET Core (or Framework 5)
• Experienced with creating Angular 2+ applications and/or React SPA applications.
• Experienced in working with SQL Server and writing complex T-SQL

Summary of Skills

• 5+ years development with C# .NET Framework + .NET Core
• 5+ years working with microservices architecture
• 5+ years developing Web UI with HTML / CSS
• 5+ experience working with SQL Server
• 3+ years of experience working with Angular 2+ or React
• 3+ years of experience working with Typescript and Javascript
• 1+ years of experience working with Docker
• 1+ years of experience working with Kubernetes
• 1+ years of experience working with GIT source control management
• Experience with Azure DevOps and deploying pipelines is a strong plus.
• Experience with versioning control and working with GitHub
• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies
• Can demonstrate working with Azure (you can provision resources and can demonstrate utilizing them. Experience with Cloud terminal is a plus) (Optional)

What are we looking for? :

- Freshers or Upto 3 years of experience in Full Stack Development.

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.

- Understanding of MVC structures, Basics of Programming and Frameworks.

- Proficient in PHP, Javascript or other programming languages

- Problem solving skills, Ability to think and solve challenging problems independently.

- Passion to work in a startup environment and wear multiple hats.

- Have knowledge of Performance optimization or best practices of development.

- Knowledge or experience in HTML, CSS, jQuery and PHP is a plus.

What you will be doing?:

- Collaborate with team members and solve new challenges through tech and research.

- Take end-to-end ownership of delivering new modules - analyze customer usage & feedback, review business requirements, develop functionalities and test code.

- Write clean readable code and also follow best practices for efficiency and performance.

- Self learn and work independently, Also collaborate with the team when required.

- Communicate constructively and value user experience and feedback.

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What can you expect to learn?:

- Full stack development in latest web technologies and frameworks like Angular, Laravel, PHP, PWAs, REST APIs, Elastic search and Web services.

- Work in a Leading E-Commerce Platform Magento and build custom modules, APIs, functionalities according to business needs.

- Best coding practices and various methodologies to optimize performance and produce the best quality product.

- Microservices architecture and Scalability using cloud services, Automation of manual tasks using linux and shell scripting, Data migrations, SQL and Version control tools like bitbucket.

Perks : 

- Competitive salary

- Flexible work hours

- No dress code

- Group outings

- Supportive work culture