UI Front-End Developer
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- Software Engineering
- Professional
UI Front-End Developer
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- Software Engineering
- Professional
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.
Your Role and Responsibilities
We are seeking a talented Frontend Developer to join our team and contribute to the development of innovative and scalable solutions. You will be responsible for Design, develop, implement, automate, deploy, and operate enterprise quality cloud-native console software using a microservice UI architecture Reactjs framework through agile development practices.
This opportunity is for a new state of art data product. We are looking for seasoned professionals who are passionate about innovative technologies for building web application consoles for Ibm Knowledge Catalog (IKC) / data fabric products using latest UI frameworks with UX designs and java based secured microservices.
As a Front-End Software Developer, you will be working as part of a full-stack team developing strong user experiences for data fabric use cases. Working in an agile environment, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary squad creating user interfaces specialized for various personas. Your work will involve close collaboration with Architects, Engineers, Designers and Product Managers across our global organization. You will leverage design component libraries, React, microservice APIs, and Front-end skills to deliver interfaces that empower our users to achieve excellent security.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with architects for defining and validating the architecture and the software design of the components and modules that have to be implemented on the platform;
- Design and implement components and features of the web UI using various front-end technologies, languages and frameworks;
- Define together with the back-end engineers the REST APIs for the features of the services being built and implement the processing of the API related data;
- Write unit tests and work with QA engineers for defining end-to-end test cases and helping with the automated testing for the system;
- Collaborate with product managers and business analysts for understanding, refining and estimating the functional requirements of the system captured in user stories;
- Collaborate with the UX team for understanding and refining the UI visual design and the user experience of the features built;
- Collaborate with all the team members by using an agile process with related practices and tools
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Minimum 10 years experience designing and developing user interfaces for software products
- Strong experience with Java, Javascript and front-end frameworks, React is MUST
- Experience building responsive and reusable UI/UX components
- Experience working with visual designs, design systems, and prototypes (Sketch, Invision, etc)
- Strong knowledge of web standards including HTML, CSS/SASS, and Accessibility
- Experience working with REST APIs and JSON data
- Automate and optimized build processes using tools like Jenkins, Maven, and Artifactory.
- Gather functional requirements from internal and external stakeholders and creates technical tasks in project tracking tool Zen Hub to implement them.
- Contribute to quality assurance activities and develops unit tests and functional tests for all features implemented.
- Troubleshoots and resolves issues in development, test, and production instances.
- Collaborate with other development team members to enable a continuous integration environment that sustains high productivity.
- Mentor and lead junior developers on technical subjects and leads customer-facing discussions and providing technical support.
- Collaborate to find solutions for accessibility issues by applying agile methodologies.
- Experience in continuous integration tools such as Maven and Jenkins
- Prioritize and address defects based on severity and business impact, coordinating with multiple teams for solutions.
- Solid problem solving and debugging skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Fluent in English
- Team-mindset: Willingness to collaborate and iterate
- Growth-mindset: Willingness to learn new technologies and processes
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Degree in Computer Science, , Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong understanding of User interface design principles
- Experience with Web security and API security
- Experience with User interface testing
- Experience with agile methodologies and automated testing
- Experience implementing responsive designs and grid layouts
- Experience with Java microservices
- Experience with Web servers and UI build tools
- Experience with Data visualization
- Experience with Globalization and Localization
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps methodologies and tools such as git, Jenkins, Travis
- Experience with GraphQL
- Working experience on Docker/Kubernetes, the DevOps, Micro services, RedHat OpenShift, Java J2EE
- Willing to lead and work on quick proof of concepts.
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