Back End Developer (remote/WFH) + hiring bonus

Company: SmartEtailing
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: May 14, 2022

Job Description:

*** $5,000 hiring bonus ***
We have been voted one of Outside Magazine's Best Places to Work for the past four years. SmartEtailing, founded in 1999, provides comprehensive website and marketing solutions for North American specialty bicycle retailers that drive sales and increase profits. With SmartEtailing, a bike shop's website is transformed from a passive advertisement to an interactive, content-rich marketing vehicle that informs and sells to customers. This role can be either hybrid for Colorado candidates or remote in approved remote states.

Total Rewards and Perks include: Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k) plan with employer match, generous PTO of 14 days in a year, paid volunteering, open office environment with natural light and mountain views, bicycle commuter and carpool credits, discounts on bikes and gear, monthly bbq / potluck events, free office snacks, easy bike path access, group bike rides and onsite fitness room. The hiring range for this role is $80,000-$125,000 (depending on relevant skills and experience) as well as a $5,000 hiring bonus.

Depending on experience, compensation and title may adjust to reflect that.

Essential Functions
Adherence to Standards & Best Practices
Maintain Application Security based on OWASP best practices
Develop projects that are compatible with Chrome and Firefox
Write code that is highly maintainable, scalable, and reusable in other areas of the application
Participate in code reviews with other developers on the team
Seeks input from senior team members when stuck or making important decisions to continue learning but can work independently 85% of the time
Maintains a consistent 70% time worked vs. time estimates on tickets
Error Rate - Code falls within a 85% acceptable error rate determined by Pull Request code comments added by Senior Developers and issues found by QA Engineers
Documents clearly and appropriately (e.g. code comments, task resolution, scheduler)
Identifies and communicates obstacles that would inhibit completing a task in the estimated time allotted in advance
Ensure creation of JIRA tickets before working on improvements, bugs or approved enhancements to log work hours
Follow Agile/Scrum development methodologies
May include On-Call duty after passing technical assessment in order to support our infrastructure ecosystem
Must participate in all five agile ceremonies
Continued education of technologies that fit with our future vision of the application and recommended by senior team members

Qualifications (range of experience may warrant a more senior title)
2+ Years of Experience with Java or C# programming languages
2+ Years of using, writing and optimizing SQL statements, Stored Procedures, Functions (T-SQL, NoSQL)
2+ Years experience with API, RESTful Web Services
2+ Years experience working with microservices for java-based frameworks such as Spring Boot
Experience with Node.js, Vue.js or React.js a plus
Experience with Web development CSS, Sass, HTML, JavaScript a plus
Advanced knowledge of solving complex problems and can work autonomously 80% of the time
Experience working in JIRA
Experience working in a Saas environment a huge plus
Thorough understanding of the SDLC
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bachelor's degree or boot camp experience
Self motivated, quick and intuitive learner
Ability to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic environment
Work at a computer for extended periods of time, some weekend work possible if there is a hard deadline.

Essential skills

Adaptability - must be committed to solving business problems and facilitating communication in a dynamic business environment.
Goal Oriented - be able to see the big picture and the necessary tasks to achieve a milestone. Drive to get things done.
Innovative - always be looking for new approaches to solving the business problem and improvements to the business processes in which the problem exists.
Leadership - be a leader in continuous improvement, communication and facilitation.
Empathy - be able to work with multiple types of customers and personalities and manage positive outcomes in dynamic business environment.
Business Orientation - must be technically adept and business oriented, always thinking about how to achieve the business goals.
Anticipation and a drive to get things done - Must be able to think two steps ahead at all times while at the same time hitting the milestones that keep projects moving.

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