Senior Software Engineer DDC

• Design, develop and maintain highly scalable responsive consumer applications supporting high traffic volumes. Be part of an engineering team that builds and supports amazing customer-facing products that will drive the next generation of Delta Dental Digital Experience. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by UI Developers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. You will communicate with customers and deliver high performing, resilient and intuitive suite of applications that create awesome customer experiences. You will work and collaborate with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, developers and automation engineers on our agile team. Continuous learning to stay current with the changing JavaScript ecosystem landscape .
  
   Job Requirements:
•  BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience. 
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing secure consumer-facing web applications. 
• Advanced level knowledge of JavaScript and Functional Programming. 
• 2+ years of extensive experience building production application with Node.js 
• 2+ years of Full Stack Front-End experience.
• Proficient in building and consuming of Restful Web service, JSON based request response. 
• 2+ years of experience working with popular JavaScript tools and Frameworks (like Gulp/npm, ejs/handlebar, Angular.js, or React or Ember).
• Experience building responsive Single Page Web Applications. 
• Good understanding of design principles to build a scalable application. 
• Strong experience with the design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability and performant applications. 
• Proficient with writing unit test case using any of the testing framework like Mocha, Chai, Jasmine etc. Proficiency with Chrome and/or other browser Developer Tools.
• Proficiency with Git/Github or other distributed version control systems. Understanding of user-centered design, progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, accessibility, SEO, responsive design, and website performance.
• Experience with Scrum, Agile Process Nice to have Contributions to open source projects. 
• Understanding of Relational, No SQL databases. 
• Experience with Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. 
• Experience with Linux environment container technology such as docker. 
• Experience with logging tools like Splunk or ELK. 
• Experience with distributed cache like Redis.
  
  

  Pre-Screen Questions

  1. Is a family member or spouse a current or former Delta Dental employee?
  2. Did you explain to your applicant that this is a full-time job with a high performance output? Explain that the quality and quantity of their work may be benchmarked against peers doing similar work.
  3. Does candidate possess BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience. 5+ years of experience designing and developing secure consumer-facing web applications?

Worksite Location: 1333 Broadway Suite 800, Oakland, CA, 94612