Full Stack Web Developer

Full Stack Web Developer

Zennify is looking for a qualified candidate to join their team as a Full Stack Developer! This individual will play an integral role in the high satisfaction of Zennify’s clients through the design and development of scalable, high-quality services and solutions. Our projects are with clients ranging from local, small and mid-sized companies to multi-national enterprise corporations, non-profit organizations and state and federal government.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop complex, web-based and mobile software applications
• Create application design documentation
• Perform peer programming and code reviews
• Participate in requirements analysis and overall application design
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Integration of user-facing elements with service side logic
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to these problems
• Maintain quality code
• Produce detailed specifications
• Create and execute unit tests
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Contribute to all phases of the development life-cycle
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools, if necessary
• Work independently and as a team player, as requested
• Participates in, and facilitates as needed, customer requirements and solution design workshops
• Captures and maps business requirements to system/technical requirements and identifies gaps
• Assess and make recommendations on processes, designs, operations, and testing
• Understands the technical depth of the project and validates the correct resources for the project
• Recommends alternate approaches, analyze impacts, and provide sizing estimates
• Participates in design and code reviews
• Analyzes and mitigates bugs and issues

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a full stack web developer or similar
• Extensive experience with React and NodeJS or similar frameworks
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Strong understanding and experience with front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Proven experience consuming and designing RESTful APIs, and experience with leveraging common third-party API’s (e.g. Google, Facebook, Ebay, etc.)
• Proven experience with Postgres or other SQL based databases
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable processes
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
• Team oriented, coaching and mentoring other developers
• Participating in code reviews, collaborating on team projects

Qualities of the Ideal Candidate

• Thrives in a team-based, high energy and fast-paced environment
• Service-oriented and innately driven to produce outstanding customer satisfaction and results
• Enjoys discovering, learning about and implementing new technologies
• Analytical and able to logically and methodically work through problems
• Strong aptitude for prioritization and multitasking in a deadline-driven environment
• Possess a sense of urgency with strong organizational and follow-up skills
• Demonstrates the following leadership skills:
• Sets deadlines for project team members
• Assigns responsibilities and directs work of project team members
• Mentor, train and guide team members
• Monitors progress
• Coaches and mentors
• Escalates when necessary
• Analyzes/Identifies areas of risk and develops plans to minimize risk
• Ability to meet travel requirements, when applicable (up to 25% travel projected)