Lead Angular Developer

Role: Lead Angular Developer

Location: O'Fallon, MO (Hybrid)

Duration: Contract (12 months)

| Top Skills: | Experience as a Lead
| Angular 14 experience
| Dedicated Angular experience
| Coding from scratch without the use of libraries

Job Description

As a Software Development Engineer, you are expected to perform the following general duties:

Own tasks (dev, test, deployment) at an application/software component level

Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code

Independently manage a support queue

Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work

Proactively seek reviews of their work from experienced members

Influence the decisions made by the team

Assist peers and less experienced members

Professional Qualifications

Business operations: Exhibits general knowledge of company business processes, systems, products, customers and how they impact own area of work.

Competitor knowledge: Displays awareness of traditional and emerging competitors and keeps abreast of their product offerings and developments.

Growing and developing teams: Participates in activities which develop others and reinforces good team spirit while working with others.

Inspiring and empowering others: Understands relationships within own work area and participates in teamwork and collaborative efforts.

Coaching and feedback: Show awareness of own strengths and areas of improvement and seeks out additional feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Technical Qualifications

Programming: Has ability to write secure code in multiple languages (ideally JavaScript, SQL); familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities

Development Practices: Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices; Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity; understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage.

Patterns and Frameworks: Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control); has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Angular,Typescript, DXP, others)

Planning: Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners with peers to participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation

Practices and Metrics: Understands Agile development processes (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for; familiar with SDLC stages starting from requirements gathering to production rollout and key decision gates in each stage; has skills to track work using Application Life Cycle management (ALM) tools (e.g., Jira, Rally).

Engineering Principles: Understand the basic tenets of building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)

Patterns and Protocols: Understand different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data); understands secure network protocols to protect data in transit (e.g., IPSec, TLS, PGP,others)

Automation: Displays basic understanding of Company systems architecture and automation technologies to support and implement software delivery and business process automation; has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient

DevOps: Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization; Aware of configuration management using tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Artifactory, Jenkins, Git, Sonar)

Performance and Scalability: Understands performance engineering practices, including capacity drivers, traffic modeling, infrastructure utilization, horizontal scaling, elastic computing, and last mile performance for consumers

Test Strategy: Follows Company testing standards via the Test Strategy; has skills to author test cases leveraging behavior driven development and customer journey concepts; understand organization of testing artifacts (e.g., test folders, sets, runs) in ALM tools and link them to automated testing code to report status of test runs

Testing Types: Understand functional and non-functional testing types and elaborate and estimate test efforts; understand how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing

Platform as a Service (PAAS) /Function as a Service (FAAS): Understands general concepts around PAAS and FAAS, and building applications that can be hosted on any standardized on- prem/public or private cloud environments