Lead Front End Software Engineer Software Developer

5% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 9% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $0 Venture Funding

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Description & Requirements

Are you excited about working with some of the latest technologies to deliver new solutions to banks & credit unions? The Jack Henry & Associates, Common Shared Services team is hiring a Lead Frontend Software Engineer to help deliver cloud-first, microservices-based banking applications for Jack Henry!

As part of the Common Shared Services team, you’ll be at the center of JHA’s strategic development initiatives for new banking applications. In your daily activities as a Lead Frontend Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to work in a DevOps team creating new banking applications as well shared platform services using responsive technologies & frameworks in an innovative technology stack. You’ll engage daily with other business services and DevOps engineers, product owners, and QA automation engineers in your team, as well as collaborating with business leaders, product subject matter experts, JHA enterprise services teams, and our clients to design & build solutions that Jack Henry customers will love!

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. is annually recognized as one of the best tech companies to work for in the U.S. by Forbes and other local sources! This is a fast paced and fun work environment with a great team engaging like a start-up company. You’ll need to be able to be agile, flexible, and self-motivated, and someone who loves to work closely with other teams across JHA and our clients.

This position can be worked out of any of the following: Allen, TX, Lenexa, KS, Brentwood, TN, Cedar Falls, IA, Springfield, MO, or be 100% REMOTE from any US location.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have a minimum of 10 years of software development experience.
• Must have a minimum of 5 years developing frontend, browser-based application user interfaces.
• Must have a minimum of 3 years developing responsive UI’s using tools like Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML 5, and CSS.
• Must be able to travel up to 5% for team meetings, trainings, or workshops.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science.
• Experience and continued interest in mentoring other developers and presenting app features & technologies to stakeholders.
• Experience with Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML 5, and CSS.
• Experience with responsive applications UI.
• Experience with tablet and mobile UI development.
• Thorough browser testing experience with multiple environments and devices.
• Experience consuming and testing RESTful API’s.
• Familiarity working with Node.js and npm.
• Familiarity with Git, both using GUI’s and command line.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps.
• Comfortable with leading IDE’s such as Visual Studio Code.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Oversees the timely, effective, and quality delivery of software into production.
• Defines or refines standards for the design and development of software. Collaborates with developers, QA, operations, and management to provide technical direction in requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Establishes and reviews business and technical requirements and overall project plans to define or refine standards, ensure adherence to standards, and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge throughout the development staff.
• Completes product technical design and prototyping, software development, bug verification and resolution.
• Performs system analysis and programming activities which require extensive research and analysis.
• Provides technical/engineering support for new and existing applications from code delivery until the retirement of the application.
• Provides both individual and budget-level task and project effort estimates/costs and oversight.
• Develops and tests applications based on business requirements and industry best practices.
• Creates required technical documentation.
• Adheres to documented departmental and corporate standards.  Oversees the definition and documentation of standards.  Contributes to defining and improving department processes.
• Collaboratively works with QA team to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Collaboratively works with customer support team to resolve or diagnose defects.
• Performs release validation testing and beta support for projects.
• Researches problems and develops solutions to the problems.
• Conducts unit testing and integration testing for functionality and limits.
• Assists in training and mentoring less experienced peers.
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies and development environments.
• May contribute to product architecture.
• May assist less experienced peers.  May act as a team lead.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Jack Henry, we know we are better together. We value, respect, and protect the uniqueness each of us brings. Innovation flourishes by including all voices and makes our business—and our society—stronger. Jack Henry is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, performance management, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, education, training, social, and recreational activities to all persons regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, pregnancy, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, and military and veteran status, or any other protected status protected by local, state or federal law.

No one will be subject to, and Jack Henry prohibits, any form of discipline, reprisal, intimidation, or retaliation for good faith reports or complaints of incidents of discrimination of any kind, pursuing any discrimination claim, or cooperating in related investigations.

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