Senior Front-End Web Applications Developer (Reopen)

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ABOUT THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE
Innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence best describes the culture here at the Comptroller’s Office. We take pride in the work we do serving as Texas' accountant, tax collector, treasurer, and much more!

CULTURE
Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service. Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on the job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.

If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!

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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

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.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $9,624.30 - $10,395.00 per month

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 6 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to Commute:

• Austin, TX 78774 (Required)

Work Location: In person