Web Application Architect

Our client produces news publications in a broad array of topics. The company offers solutions to practitioners in the areas of law, tax and accounting, government affairs, government contracting, and environment, health and safety. The company's network of more than 2,500 reporters, correspondents, and leading practitioners perform practical analysis, news, practice tools, and guidance.About the jobOur client is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer/Application Architect to be responsible for designing, building, and owning client-facing web products. Individuals who embrace hard work, act with urgency and collaborate without reserve thrive. In cross-functional Agile teams, they work with UX designers, data experts and product owners to deliver the data-driven solutions their clients need and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque industry. The right person:

• Proposes, develops and supports world-class customer facing web applications using a range of technologies including Vue, Typescript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
• Participates in the analysis of system and business requirements to provide hands-on solutions to meet or exceed our customers’ expectations.
• Delivers high-quality code by defining and deploying best practices in unit testing and integration testing.
• Performs integration and testing of software components across an entire team, as needed.
• Communicates with the Product Management and development teams to raise issues and identify potential barriers in a timely fashion.
• Participates in user-centered research through client focus groups, interviews, usage analysis, and rapid prototyping.
• Is Responsible for protecting customers and brand by writing secure-by-design code.
• Leads, supervises, mentors, and trains other team members in order to develop a strong, best-in-class development bench.
• Directs the work of and provides technical guidance to less experienced staff.
• Participates in recruiting, hiring, onboarding and performance management of new team members.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

• Demonstrated commitment to high quality user-facing and back-end code that is usable, maintainable and well thought out.
• Strong track record of establishing best practices in software architecture and development.
• Nice if you have experience developing applications using GraphQL
• Strong record of project execution and completion with experience using Scrum and agile development practices.
• Excels at working with multidisciplinary teams to develop great user experiences.
• Ability to work with and mentor other developers and lead by example to develop highly proficient and productive teams.
• Must be a self-directed and highly motivated individual who embraces modification of their work based on customer feedback and other business factors.
• Works closely with designers and other developers in a tightly knit, agile team.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively across team and organizational boundaries.
• Displays enthusiasm for the challenge of pushing the limits of the web platform to deliver disruptive, innovative solutions to the world that will delight customers.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to interact with all levels of employees and customers throughout the organization.

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a software engineer or architect for web applications.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience developing web applications in a complex, multi-platform distributed environment with modern web frameworks. Ruby on Rails or Apollo Server preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience with one or more of the following front-end Javascript technologies: VueJS, AngularJS, React, Ember.
• Experience using a variety of languages and technologies to develop web solutions.
• AWS experience and hybrid mobile application development experience a plus.
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working in an iterative or agile development environment, preferably Scrum.