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Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the brand name of Deere & Company, an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment.
Job Title: Software Developer
Location: Urbandale, IA 50322
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Visa sponsorship is not available, now or in the near future, for this position.
Job Descriptions:
Major Purpose:
- Works on a product team and supports product design by planning its work, coordinating with others, and writing and testing code to deliver moderately complex functionality on a complete product or significant portion of a product it supports.
- This level develops simple designs to solve well-defined problems with guidance from more senior team members.
- May assign, coordinate and review portions of the work to support personnel
- Makes decisions within established guidelines subject to review by supervisors
- Executes high level applications to more complex problems.
Major Duties:
- Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
- Evaluates and implements enhancement design solutions to improve cost, quality, and performance of software applications.
- Analyzes assignments and determines software specifications that must be fulfilled to achieve objectives.
- Executes necessary documentation, as directed, or needed.
- Collaborates with other relevant stakeholders and team members to ensure that features meet business needs.
- Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:
- Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
- Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
- Ability to apply engineering principles and concepts for designs.
- Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment
Education:
- Degree in an Engineering/Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
- Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
Work Experience:
- Previous experience in programming/software development. (1 - 3 years)
- Software development processes experience. (1 - 3 years)
- Participating in Agile Development (1 - 3 years) Experience working in an Agile Environment (1 - 3 years)
Summary:
- This role is Front of the Font End Development.
- You will be joining a team that is supporting a Design System promoting consistent user experience across a large digital product.
- A stand-out quality in a past position would be experience in a design system/component library environment.
Skills:
Required:
Required:
- Deep experience in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, React JS, Node JS
- Candidate should have strong JavaScript experience should understand at least at an intermediate level the foundations of JavaScript
- NodeJS. We use Node for our development environment, so understanding how that relates to building for the front-end is essential.
- React should understand functional React components and hooks
- HTML/CSS should have strong HTML and CSS skills, able to understand how the two interact, and how those interact with React.
- Responsive Web Design understanding how layouts will respond at various screen sizes is essential
- Version Control we use Git, but some understanding of concepts of distributed version control is necessary.
- TypeScript should at least understand what it is, what benefit it provides, and how it relates to JavaScript.
Bonus Skills
- Testing
- Cypress component testing
- Visual Regression Testing
- CSS Preprocessors or CSS-in-JS tools
- SASS or LESS
- Emotion, Styled Components, etc.
- Material UI
- Engineering Practices TDD, Software Automation, CI/CD
- Agile and XP
- Experience working in a design system/component library team
- Experience working on an internal tools team
Job Description/Responsiblities:
- Develops reusable components for a shared product design system.
- Analyzes requirements from 10-20 product development teams to come to a common, intuitive component API
- Works with product managers and UX designers to ensure component library meets the needs of the business and users.
- Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
- Executes necessary documentation as needed.
- Tests components across browsers and devices.
- Maintains the component library as a product and work with other teams to manage contributions.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
