Full Stack Software Engineer

This position is for a Full stack end to end web application developer who can develop both back-end infrastructure, Web UI, supporting API endpoints for the front-end, designing and maintaining a highly available and efficient media and data repository system. Optimizing our applications for scale and speed in imaginative and innovative ways will also be a significant function of this position.

Responsibilities:

• Build, scale and maintain our services and web based applications
• T hink cross-device and cross-platform, mobile, tablet and desktop while developing front-ends.
• Collaborate with team members to deliver web based applications with both client side and server side functionality
• Work with internal and external customers to define new features that will drive our business
• Contribute to our team’s growing set of development platforms, tools, and processes
• Contribute to user and support documentation when relevant
• Research open-source technical possibilities and options
• Participate in support/troubleshooting discussions, calls and provide technical expertise to support person and customers

• Profile and optimize new and legacy code.

• Build software for internal business operations

• Integrate and build for external and internal API's.

• Mentor junior intern programmers on programming projects.

  Essential Qualifications

• 3+ years experience and proficiency with LAMP stack, solving challenging problems and implementing new features from scratch.

• 3+ years using HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap components and implementing responsive design for the web

• 2+ years of data migration, transformation and scripting experience in the Linux environment

• Be comfortable working outside the context of a framework.

• 1+ years experience with writing search queries and managing data fields using Apache Solr

• 1+ years of Unit and Acceptance testing experience

• Familiar with implementing application level security and implementing best practices for the web and SQL

• Experience optimizing SQL and profiling legacy code

• Experience using source control (Git) and code-deployment workflows

• Experience building REST services as well as writing clients for integrating with public and private APIs

• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal communication skills, including explaining technical issues to non-technical users

• Appreciate and respect diversity of people, ideas, and thought to create a cross-culturally competent community

• Excellent organization skills and high attention to detail

• Ability to be self-directed, take initiative and to work as part of a team; Ability to set priorities in alignment with organization and product needs

• Ability to work in a professional environment and serve as a role model to student employees

• Criminal history background check

• Some off-hours and weekend activities may be required.

Preferred / Nice to have but not Mandatory skills are as follows;

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR an Associate's degree with Major in computer science, information technology or related field.

• Additional two years experience in LAMP stack and Javascript,

• Experience building mobile applications

• Prior experience working in AWS environment (EC2, S3 and Glacier for storage)

• Experience working on Javascript libraries, HTML5 media player, video tags, using FFMPEG and streaming servers

• Experience working on digital asset management systems or digital repositories (Fedora commons) and media (video streaming formats, audio)

• Experience working with building redundant and data caching systems using Redis

• Experience with log data aggregation and analysis techniques.