Apollo ITS

Technical Specialist

Apollo ITS, Des Moines, IA, United States

Title: Technical Specialist
Location: Des Moines, IA
Duration: 12+ Months
Type: Contract

Job Description:

The project aims to modernize IWD's Tax system by re-architecting its components to current industry-leading architecture and frameworks.
All the application layers are being modernized, including the front end, to be more responsive and dynamic, which would benefit both the staff and end-users of the agency while positioning the agency for future technological improvements.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Contribute to the architecture, design, and coding of enterprise-level web-based solutions
Architect complete front-end stack of projects using TypeScript with Angular and HTML/CSS
Create reference architectures and design patterns
Implement UI component design focused on reusability, scalability, extensibility, and maintainability
Follow the agency's standards and programming practices
Responsible for writing high-quality code with test coverage
Mentor other developers through code walkthrough and parallel programming
Interface with a REST-based backend, building a cloud-based platform
Develop APIs through Java/JEE technologies and Spring framework
Prepare and produce releases of software components
Contribute to a highly collaborative team of developers
Support continuous improvement by investigating technology alternatives and presenting these for architectural review

Must Have skills

Proven hands-on full-stack software development experience
Hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
5+ years of experience developing dynamic, highly interactive, responsive user interfaces for the web
Ability to build enterprise-level self-contained, reusable, and testable components
Strong hands-on development with Single Page Applications
Strong experience in HTML, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS
Experience in building JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks
Experience in JS testing frameworks like Jasmine or KarmaExperience with OAuth security tokens (JWT)
Experience developing and consuming SOAP and RESTful web services utilizing XML and/or JSON with binding libraries like JAXB, Jackson, Gson, etc.
Implement and adhere to code quality standards with tools like ESLint, FindBugs, SONAR, etc.
Experience in working in teams using Agile methodologies
Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Spring MVC)
Experience in developing Spring Boot applications is an advantage
Experience with test-driven development and testing framework like JUnit, Mockito is an advantage
Experience with Okta is an advantage
Experience working in Microservices architecture is an advantage Requirements: • Angular 2+ ~ 5years experience
Typescript 5years experience
JSON - 5years experience
HTML, CSS3 - 5years experience
Grunt/Gulp/Webpack 5years experience

Required/Desired Skills