Do you believe everyone should have affordable access to knowledge and higher education? Join the ITHAKA team and help make that vision a reality.
The Role
This Web Application Developer position is for our JSTOR development team.
You will be designing, developing and maintaining applications that are deployed on our cloud- delivered platform and powered by our APIs. You will be a crucial part of a dynamic, energized and agile team delivering leading-edge solutions that are used across the globe by millions of visitors each month.
When joining the development team at JSTOR, you can expect to receive tool and product training. We have an excellent onboarding program, which enables new engineers to become productive very quickly. A lead will work closely with you as you begin engaging your assigned agile team. We will provide you with constant support as we work to make you comfortable in your new environment. Those in leadership roles will work tirelessly to set you up for success.
The primary responsibilities of our developers include:
- Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative agile team to design, develop and maintain high-performance applications.
- Leverage continuous deployment and test automation tools in order to deploy application changes to production on average more than once per day.
- Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and lead the development of web applications to meet those needs.
- Implement rich, interactive web applications using the latest technologies, frameworks, and patterns.
- Leverage web analytics as needed to support Product Discovery and to measure project KPIs.
- Test, measure, and optimize performance using Application Performance Management Tools.
Skills, Experience, and Characteristics
- Proven experience using SASS and JavaScript including technologies like Webpack, Node.js, and single-page UI frameworks.
- Proven experience in Object Oriented programming using Java and/or Python.
- Experience using browser-based web developer tools to analyze and optimize UI performance.
- Experience with Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban.
- Willingness and ability to learn new approaches and emerging technology quickly.
- Familiarity with implementing a mobile-first approach with UI frameworks like Foundation and Bootstrap.
- Familiarity of unit testing with Jasmine, Jest or QUnit.
- Familiarity with building web applications using Python/Django.
- Familiarity with accessibility, usability, information architecture, and interaction design principles.
- Detail oriented.
Work for us
Come join our team of talented and dedicated people with great ideas who want to make the world a smarter place. Individuals will be rewarded with excellent career development and a fantastic benefits package that includes:
- Choice of two medical plans, one at no cost to the employee
- Employer paid dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs
- Employer contributed retirement and much, much more
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