What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full Stack Engineer position at Northern Light?
Job Duties/Position Description:
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will work on portal platform features used by tens of thousands of business researchers every day in a fast paced and collaborative environment. In this role, you will be responsible for the overall development and implementation of front and back-end software applications. Your responsibilities will extend from designing system architecture to high-level programming, performance testing, and systems integration. You will write libraries and frameworks that maximize speed and scale, develop prototypes for roadmap features, work with the customer success managers to respond to customer requests for extensions to the platform and apply newly released features to existing customer instances.
Minimum Requirements:
BS in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience with 3 years of PHP/JS for API/UI/UX engineering expertise.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- Development experience for both mobile and desktop.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design.
- Experience with a continuous integration build system.
- Experience with JIRA/Confluence workflows.
- Familiarity with Linux-based systems.
- Familiarity HTTP, HTTPS, CSS, XML, JSON.
- Familiarity with git, docker, kubernetes.
- Effective project management, problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Knowledge of MVC, Codeception, Jest, React, TypeScript, NodeJS, Elasticsearch, Redux preferred.
- Knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD) preferred.
- Understanding of secure coding standards is a plus.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Referral program
Northern Light Careers
Northern Light offers the chance to work with innovative knowledge management technology applied to enterprises' market research and competitive intelligence needs, global Customers, and the greatest team of people ever assembled. The pace is fast. The environment is smart and fun. And the culture is fanatical about customer service.
Working at Northern Light
Northern Light is based in the Charlestown Navy Yard right beside the USS Constitution and across the river from the TD Garden and Boston’s North End. In addition, we have a development office in Bridgetown, Barbados and individual contributors working from home in the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine.
COVID-19 considerations
Northern Light Boston based employees are currently all working remotely. It is preferred that this position work from our Boston (Charlestown Navy Yard) office post-pandemic but is negotiable.
Northern Light provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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