Front end Software Development Engineering Engineer

Employees in this job function develop and maintain the front-end/ client-side of an application, typically a web application, but sometimes also a mobile application or mobile friendly responsive application and are responsible for the design and implementation of the user interface and user experience., * Engage with customers to deeply understand their use-cases, pain points, and requirements, showcasing empathy and advocating for user-centric software solutions

• Solve complex problems by designing, developing, and delivering using various tools, languages, frameworks, and technologies
• Align with architecture guidelines for unified and coherent approach to development
• Collaborate with cross functional teams like product owners, designers, back-end developers, architects etc.
• Create mock-ups and prototypes to visualize new features and participate in user interface design reviews and product demos
• Performs functional automated testing and UI testing to ensure quality development
• Work on continuously improving performance by fixing bugs and optimizing the application and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Familiar with programming practices, such as cross-browser compatibility testing, SEO principles and accessibility standards
• Design, develop, and deliver user friendly interactive experience using enterprise brand standards and templates for a consistent user experience using languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript or more advanced frameworks like React and Angular
• Keep up to date with latest emerging technologies and trends in user interface design We are looking for an exceptional Software Engineer to work on our team with a focus on front-end development for the Connectivity Platform. You will collaborate with other Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to deliver critical new features and capabilities for the maintenance of connected device applications and APIs. This front-end team collaborates heavily with related backend teams to support the user needs as well as supporting backend application interfaces. The Software Engineer will be responsible for the design, development and ongoing support/maintenance of the applications and services., * Product and Requirements Management: Participate in and/or lead the development of requirements, features, user stories, use cases, and test cases. Participate in stand-up operations meetings.
• Author: Process, Technical Design and Support Documents.
• Design/Develop/Test/Deploy: Collaborate with the broader Engineering team on solution designs, development, and deployment.
• Incident, Problem, Change/Service Requests: Participate and/or lead incident, problem, change and service request-related activities. Includes root cause analysis. Includes proactive problem management/defect prevention activities.
• Interact and work closely with team/product managers to devise solutions and break them down into incremental production-ready user stories.
• Use AI to deliver improved user applications with better quality and faster delivery timing.
• Participate in On-call rotations for feature support.
• Delivery of products that include React frontends and Spring/Cloud services that enable customers
• Use DevOps tools such as SonarQube, FOSSA, and GitHub to deploy, improve and manage software. Even better, you may have…
• Experience with RESTful interfaces and OAS standards.
• Experience with GraphQL in addition to REST.
• Comfortable with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools and pipelines.
• Experience with GCP or other cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace.
• Experience with React ecosystem tooling (e.g., Redux, Context, React Router, testing with Jest/React Testing Library, and Vite)
• Experience building and maintaining design systems or component libraries tooling (e.g. Figma)
• Experience with React class components and lifecycle methods, in addition to modern functional components and hooks.

• React skill expectation: I expect the candidate to be well versed in using React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) which is a Frontend User Interface (UI) library for building web pages. My expectations are that the candidate has at least 3 years working on Frontend apps using React.

Skills Preferred:

• REST APIs skill expectation: I expect the candidate to be well versed in interfacing with REST APIs and knowing how to read the API documentation to create requests to populate the data on the web pages. My expectations are that the candidate has at least 1+ years working with REST APIs.

Experience Required:

• Engineer 3 Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang. 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development

Experience Preferred:

• 3+ years using React; 1+ years using Spring; 1+ years using CI/CD and Github; GraphQL; Figma; GCP

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We’ve differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you’ve heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies. Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match