Senior Full Stack Developer

Description

Job Summary

This position contributes to the architecture, design, development, implementation, and lifecycle support of web-based applications. The efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of the applications and systems under this position's charge are crucial to the organization and key stakeholders-including volunteer governance, leadership, staff, members, customers, and partners-since these systems significantly impact the organization's ability to monetize its intellectual property. The role typically reports to a Director or Manager level position and does not have any direct reports. This position will be responsible for successfully delivering their assignments under the guidance of the director and tech lead.

This position is based in the Los Alamitos, CA office and flexible for a hybrid (in-office and remote) work.

Key Responsibilities

• Project delivery :
• Clearly understand the project scope and software requirements.
• Develop and deliver projects from requirements definition through implementation and support, adhering to Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
• Create detailed functional and non-functional requirements and specifications documents.
• Requirements and Design :
• Learn about the project expectations based on the input from key stakeholders and manager to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Participate and perform design reviews with technical personnel to ensure alignment and feasibility.
• Architectural Development :
• Understand and assist in the development of application and infrastructure architecture. Develop applications adhering to the approved architecture.
• Learn about the architecture principles and apply the knowledge in the development.
• Assist the tech lead and director by architecting scalable and high-quality solutions that meet business needs.
• Application Development :
• Build and maintain custom web applications (front-end and back-end).
• Execute the development, testing, continuous integration, and deployment of the IEEE Computer Society main site and eCommerce site and all other applications like conferences and publications.
• Perform impact analysis of application changes across various components, holding an end-to-end view of the system.
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases.
• Learn new technologies.
• Data Management :
• Perform data analysis and data modeling.
• Conduct impact analysis of application changes across various components, maintaining an end-to-end system view.
• Project Management :
• Assist in the role of project manager as needed, including cost estimation, project planning, and analysis.
• Follow project plans, determine including time / cost estimates, meet deliverable dates, and adhere to testing protocols.
• Programming and Testing :
• Code using the industry best practices and eliminate complexities in coding. Follow the IEEE Computer Society coding approach.
• Ensure high-quality deliverables through unit testing, integration / system testing, regression testing, production implementation, and post-production support.
• Teamwork :
• Based on the assignments, work on group projects and help the team, ensuring successful delivery of projects.
• Communicate well with the team members and manager to bring up important items, risks, and issues.
• Report plans, status, and progress to the programming manager and department director.
• UX and Responsive Design :
• Perform (and learn to lead based on the assignment) web application design using best practices in UX and responsive design.
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases.
• Ensure that the applications are ADA compliant and any other business compliance that's needed.
• Documentation and Review :
• Create and maintain comprehensive software documentation.
• Facilitate stakeholder review sessions for requirements, prototypes, and design artifacts.
• Conduct code reviews and peer review sessions.
• Technology Evaluation :
• Assist and participate in evaluating new vendor services / technology, new software packages, techniques, and development tools, providing recommendations to management.
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends, applying them to operations and activities.
• Quality Assurance :
• Understand that quality starts from day one of the project and is not just limited to testing.
• Clarify and eliminate all ambiguity from requirements, design, scope, data, integrations, UX / UI etc..
• Adhere to programming standards, meet all deliverable dates, and follow all designated development methodology and processes.
• Perform Unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, performance and load testing, automated and manual regression testing, production implementation shakeout, and post-production support.
• Monitor applications and infrastructure regularly and consistently to identify performance issues and resolve them
• Conducts code review and peer review sessions
• Monitoring and maintenance :
• Assist in maintaining stable, scalable, and high-performance systems.
• Consistently monitor production and QA systems for issues and risks to achieve minimum user interruptions and outages.
• Communicate and take proactive actions to upgrade and patch servers, libraries, software, frameworks, certificates, and o / s.
• Perform other system maintenance on a regular basis.
• Provide off hours support in case of any production issues.
• Collaborate with IEEE IT to keep the lights on.
• Collaboration and Mentorship :
• Collaborate with the creative design team and other developers to enhance productivity.
• Help all team members and all internal and external customers and stakeholders.
• Conduct stakeholder review sessions of requirements, prototypes, and design artifacts
• Other duties may be assigned

Qualifications

Education

Work Experience

Skills and Requirements

Other Requirements :

As defined in IEEE Policies, individuals currently serving on an IEEE board or committee are not eligible to apply.

PLEASE NOTE : This position is not budgeted for employer-sponsored immigration support, this includes all persons in F (both CPT and OPT), J, H, L, or O status.

For information on work demands and conditions required for this position, please consult the reference document, ADA Requirements. This position is classified under Category I - Office Positions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Disclaimer : This job description is proprietary to IEEE. It outlines the general nature and key features performed by various positions that share the same job classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties and qualifications required of all employees assigned to the job. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or re-assign duties to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodations or other business reasons.