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owa Workforce Development 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 high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. The individual will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications using Agile methodologies.

The project aims to modernize IWD’s Tax system by re-architecting its components to current industry-leading 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 end-users of the agency while positioning the agency for future technological improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the architecture, design, and coding of enterprise-level web-based solutions

• Architect complete front-end 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 agency’s standards and programming practices

• Responsible for writing high-quality code with test coverage

• Mentor other developers through code walkthrough and parallel programming

• Interface with a REST-based backend, building a cloud-based 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 have’s

• Proven hands-on full-stack software development experience

• Hands-on 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 enterprise-level self-contained, reusable, and testable components

• Strong hands-on development with Single Page Applications

• Strong experience in HTML, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS

• Experience in building JavaScript MV-VM/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 test-driven 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 API’s – 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