Senior Full Stack Developer

Contract Length 9 months
Location: WFH (once on site – Toronto)

Story Behind the Need:
Business Group: Seeking a Senior full stack developer whose technical stack shows proficiency with Javascript, experience in React & Node JS is required since they will be touching on both. They will be working on a project that involves modernizing and centralizing the Bank’s Help & Search Platform and new chatbot initiative – modernize customers experience with chatbot and agent hand off while also working on day to day items the team has as well

Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be extended as the project is anticipated to go on till 2022, and there are other upcoming projects as well.

Typical Day in the Role:
– Design, develop, and implement applications using in-demand languages and technologies to support business requirements.
– Working on roadmap items

Must Have Skills/Requirements:
1) Experience with REST API design (what it is, how to use, integrating with it) – 3+ years of hands on experience
2) React – 3+ years of hands on experience
3) NodeJS (productionizing NodeJS servers as well) – 3+ years of hands on experience
4) Modern JS toolsets (ES6+, Webpack, Babel, Jest, Protractor) – (the more have exposure to more of these the better) – 2+ years of hands on experience
5) Experience working with authenticated, customer focused applications (i.e. OAuth2 preferred)– 2+ years of hands on experience
6) Object Oriented and Functional Design – 3+ years of hands on experience
7) HTML / CSS / SASS (BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, CSS3 Animations, Semantic HTML) (the more have exposure to more of these the better) 2+ years of hands on experience

Nice to Have Skills:
– Service side rendering***
– You’ve built accessible and internationalized applications before (JAWS, Voiceover, Transifex)
– Should be comfortable in estimation

Soft Skills:
– You stay up to date with industry best practice
– Must have excellent communication skills, and be open to interacting with individual across all levels at the bank
– Communication for this role is extremely important – all the candidates will be dealing with an external part of the division – dealing with Product Managers, Directors, etc. all over the place
– This is a senior level individual needs to understand the business implications not just how to execute a given task
– Someone who is opinionated and can actually provide input and help drive change