Front End Developer

Position Summary

Somos is an innovative technology company that provides an expanding portfolio of products and services related to number administration for the toll-free, messaging and wider telecommunications industries. As an enabler of innovation, Somos is taking the lead in promoting the technological and market evolution taking place in these industries as well as building products that support and fuel such evolution. We are looking for forward-thinking, innovative people who have proven track records of taking ownership and making things happen.

Looking for developers with a broad interest and understanding of technology, software, databases and the web, but with deep interest in server side or back-end work. Be part of the development team where the passion to improve, extent, re-architect and transform existing products to be amazingly scalable, improved throughput, resilient and modern. Develop ideas, conceive solutions and implement minimally viable proof of concepts and robust products. Apply web-scale design patterns to solve practical problems around high transaction, massively scalable and concurrent search and reserve problems.

Core Job Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Work with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios

• Hands on development, implementation, integration and testing using Java, Node, and/or Python

• Implements software using best practices (e.g., software reuse, modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, fault tolerant, and secure)

• Create microservices following API-driven design pattern

• Develop applications using an Agile approach

• Integration with existing systems

• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities,

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a highly-complex technical environment.

• Experience working in a polyglot environment

• Experience with Agile methodology: Scrum, DevOps, Continuous Development/Continuous Integration, and automated test tools

• Experience with cloud-oriented development using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services such as RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognitor, SQS/SNS, EKS

• Solid, practical knowledge of Java Eco System: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Hibernate, REST, Maven or Gradle

• Experience with Front-End technologies: javascript, Angular and/or React, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases: MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Snowflake, or similar experience

• Ability to collaborate with internal and external resources

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Skills (if any)

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with serverless architecture

• Experience with Hadoop and Spark

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)