Technical Specialist

Position: Technical Specialist

Location: Des Moines IA (Hybrid)

Client is a state agency committed to providing unemployment services for individual job seekers. The IT department of IWD develops and maintains applications that serve our customers. We are looking for a Technical Specialist with experience in building highperforming scalable enterprisegrade applications. The individual will be part of a talented software team that works on missioncritical applications using Agile methodologies.

The project aims to modernize IWDs Tax system by rearchitecting its components to current industryleading architecture and frameworks. All the application layers are being modernized including the front end to be more responsive and dynamic which would benefit both the staff and endusers of the agency while positioning the agency for future technological improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the architecture design and coding of enterpriselevel webbased solutions
• Architect complete frontend stack of projects using TypeScript with Angular and HTML/CSS
• Create reference architectures and design patterns
• Implement UI component design focused on reusability scalability extensibility and maintainability
• Follow the agencys standards and programming practices
• Responsible for writing highquality code with test coverage
• Mentor other developers through code walkthrough and parallel programming
• Interface with a RESTbased backend building a cloudbased platform
• Develop APIs through Java/JEE technologies and Spring framework
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Contribute to a highly collaborative team of developers
• Support continuous improvement by investigating technology alternatives and presenting these for architectural review

Must haves

• Proven handson fullstack software development experience
• Handson experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• 5 years of experience developing dynamic highly interactive responsive user interfaces for the web
• Ability to build enterpriselevel selfcontained reusable and testable components
• Strong handson development with Single Page Applications
• Strong experience in HTML Typescript JavaScript CSS
• Experience in building JavaScript MVVM/MVC frameworks
• Experience in JS testing frameworks like Jasmine or KarmaExperience with OAuth security tokens (JWT)
• Experience developing and consuming SOAP and RESTful web services utilizing XML and/or JSON with binding libraries like JAXB Jackson Gson etc.
• Implement and adhere to code quality standards with tools like ESLint FindBugs SONAR etc.
• Experience in working in teams using Agile methodologies
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF Spring MVC)
• Experience in developing Spring Boot applications is an advantage
• Experience with testdriven development and testing framework like JUnit Mockito is an advantage
• Experience with Okta is an advantage
• Experience working in Microservices architecture is an advantage
• Requirements:
• Angular 2 5years experience
• Typescript 5years experience
• JSON 5years experience
• HTML CSS3 5years experience
• Grunt/Gulp/Webpack 5years experience
• Jasmine/Karma 5years experience
• Java/JEE 5years experience
• SOAP and REST APIs 5years experience
• Git 5years experience
• NodeJS 5years experience
• Spring Boot 5years experience
• Hibernate EclipseLink 5years experience
• Junit TestNG 5years experience
• Mockito Cucumber 5years experience
• Maven 5years experience
• SVN 5years experience