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General description
The Web Applications Tax and Reporting development team is a dynamic workforce that builds world-class tax solutions. We are looking for a Senior Front-End Web Applications Developer to join us on a dedicated team crafting visually stunning and seamlessly functional Web Applications for our application portfolio. You'll be collaborating with talented, cross-functional teams, turning design mockups into reality for robust, scalable Web Applications across multiple technologies while interfacing with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and QA to ensure the best possible user experience. Your keen eye for design and attention to detail will be a driving force behind our codebase, and unit tests, while adhering to defined standards and following industry best practices. As a senior developer you must be able to lead regular design and code reviews to ensure code quality and participate in debugging sessions to resolve issues. Your problem-solving skills will be tested as you help triage problems, troubleshoot issues, debug existing code, and correcting defects that fall outside of regular release cycles. If you are self-motivated, enjoy working in a fast-paced team-oriented environment, strive for top quality results, and are exceptional at attention to details, we want you to help shape our digital landscape. You must have extensive knowledge on stateless Web Applications and associated security controls, possess excellent communication skills, exhibit sound judgement, and maintain and code to development standards.
Work Hours
Work Hours are 8:00AM to 5:00PM, 40-hour week, Monday - Friday. Occasionally work additional hours on evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, including working on-call 24 hours a day during a rotation. Hours may change based on business need.
Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e. report to office 1 day/month, 3 days/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree.
Six (6) years of experience with the design and coding of full stack applications which at least three (3) years of which must have been utilizing React.JS.
Five (5) years of experience working in a microservices environment developing RESTful API endpoints.
Four (4) year of experience writing Unit and E2E tests to ensure 100% test coverage.
Four (4) years of experience with ECMAScript 6 .
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Management Information Systems.
Experience with modern JavaScript microframeworks (React.js, Vue.js).
Four (4) years of experience in application design for mobile first Web Applications including HTML5, CSS3 and the Bootstrap framework.
Three (3) years of experience utilizing the JavaScript bundler webpack.
Experience with mobile-first development concepts.
Experience with 508 compliance, specifically for responsive design/mobile.
An understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture and microservices.
Two years of experience working in Agile Scrum teams.
Substitutions
One (1) additional year of experience the design and coding of full stack applications may substitute for thirty (30) semester hours of educational requirement with a maximum substitution of 120 semester hours (four years).
In this role you will:
Oversees and/or performs highly complex coding work using modern tools and related technologies based on business requirements in a micro-service based distributed environment; oversees design, code standards, and procedures for applications to ensure adherence to established architecture, design & coding standards.
Oversees and/or performs testing activities for applicable changes based on business requirements, including implementation and environment preparation, documentation, coordination, and monitoring.
Mentors other developers regarding hardware, software, and the use of advanced technical solutions and tools
Oversees and/or performs analysis, research, and interpretation of business requirements to document technical requirements and develop technical specifications.
Oversees and/or plan, estimate, document and monitor software development activities and processes.
Responds to problems in an on-call situation 24 hours a day.
Performs other duties as assigned
Veterans:
To receive veteran's preference a copy of your DD214 (Member 4) is required.
Veterans, Reservist or Guardsmen with an MOS or additional duties that fall within the essential duties of the job position or other related fields pertaining to the minimum experience requirements may meet the minimum qualifications. All active duty, reservists, guardsmen, and veterans are encouraged to apply if they meet the qualifications for this position. Please call Human Resources, CPA Veterans Liaison at 512-475-3560/800-531-5441 for more information or assistance.
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Important Notes to the Candidate:
Salary is contingent upon qualifications. CPA employees in the same job classification, if selected, will be laterally transferred with no increase in salary. (An example might be an Accounts Examiner III in Revenue Administration who moves to an Accounts Examiner III in the Enforcement division).
If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.
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The Comptroller's Office is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.
