Senior Front End/UI Developer (Angular/J2EE)

City : Austin State : Texas Neos is a leading Austin-based IT Staffing and Consulting firm, and was recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin. Neos is seeking a Senior Front End/UI Developer (Angular/J2EE) for a long-term contract with our client in Austin, TX. REMOTE FROM WITHIN THE STATE OF TEXAS Scope/Description of Services: Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. • Performs Front End/UI application development, enhancement, maintenance, and support for Social Services User Interface applications. • Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. • As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing and deployment of new application components, as required. • Analyze UI framework, libraries for configuration & performance tuning opportunities, as required. • Develop, enhance and maintain existing and new web-based J2EE/Portal applications within HHSC's SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies. • Create technical and design documentation, as required. • Perform system analysis and problem resolution, as required. • Develop and maintain data and process models, as required. • Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error. • Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts. • Participate in program design, coding and test walk-through meetings to provide input regarding technical standards and customer requirements. • Provide application support (defect repair, maintenance, and production operations support) for web-based Java applications in an SOA platform. Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities. Develop and test application code to resolve defects and improve application reliability and performance. • Other duties as assigned. II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. Years Required/Preferred Experience 8 Required Hands-on experience in Front End/UI development, enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications using Angular and/or similar frameworks on the J2EE application development platform 8 Required Hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) 8 Required Hands-on UI development experience implementing Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies 8 Required Hands-on programming experience in following languages: HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS3, Bootstrap, SASS, Angular, Typescript, JSON, XML, ES5/ES6, NPM, Maven and/or other UI frameworks/libraries. 8 Required Demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining an enterprise-level Front End/UI application including complete ownership of the front-end stack (JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Angular and/or other UI frameworks). 8 Required Experience implementing Client-facing applications with responsive design and development 8 Required Experience implementing SPAs with JS or with libraries/frameworks like Angular 8 Required Experience in development of self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components 8 Required Strong understanding and experience of fundamental programming concepts of data structures, algorithms, performance, caching and scalability issues in the context of Web based UI applications 8 Required Experience in developing and testing application user interface for ADA/Accessibility Compliance 8 Required Experience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability and maintainability. 8 Required Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Karma, Jasmine, Selenium 5 Preferred Hands-on experience with Spring Boot Java Applications 5 Preferred Hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later 5 Preferred Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum) 5 Preferred Hands-on experience with web applications developed for Cloud platform 5 Preferred Hands-on experience with CI/CD methodology 5 Preferred Hands-on development experience for mobile and tablet platforms