Developer - Full Stack with a Frontend Focus (Senior-Level)

Job Description

This position will require you to be in Cleveland, OH
We are in a hybrid schedule, 2 days on campus and 3 days WFH The Senior-Level Frontend Developer’s responsibilities include developing code for new or existing systems based on direction and / or specifications provided by the Product Owner, Development Manager, Director of Software Development, or Chief Technology Officer. Job duties may also include researching new technologies to determine if they can be applied to OverDrive products and projects. Responsibilities:

• Work on small to medium projects independently; contribute to large cross-team projects in collaboration with a Solution Architect.
• May serve as a team lead for small teams focused on one product.
• Train and mentor team members through coaching, assistance, clear documentation, etc.
• Assist manager with drafting annual reviews; may provide feedback if requested.
• Interview potential new hires and make recommendations to hiring manager.
• Lead small projects independently; lead medium projects with support from Solution Architect.
• Oversee all aspects of assigned projects including requirements gathering, design specification, infrastructure provisioning, capacity planning, implementation and delivery.
• Break down long projects or complex groups of user stories into shorter-term deliverables.
• Identify problems with requirements and facilitate resolution with the team.
• Provide technical leadership on project architecture, design, implementation and quality.
• Routinely review development process for needed improvements; implement as appropriate.
• Facilitate team meetings as appropriate.
• Assist in architecting SQL and / or document databases to support team projects.
• Facilitate discussion regarding customer use cases and the impact of technical implementation options.
• Recommend and initiate refinements and recommendations for alignment of project tasks based on scale of effort, technologies and resource availability.
• Proactively identify and clean up technical debt; encourage and enable team to do the same.
• Review all code produced by team through pull requests, code reviews and pair coding ensuring high quality.
• Oversee thorough technical testing and performance planning of products supported by team resulting in successful launches.
• Perform ongoing maintenance and production support.
• Contribute on a regular basis to common codebases, standards for team and design of systems.
• Research and evaluate new technology to find the best approach to solving a system requirement; implement as appropriate.
• Responsible for working on projects that impact multiple teams.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of related experience.
• Strong understanding of web based architecture and development.
• Expert knowledge of software development.
• Expert understanding and ability to create and maintain systems using language appropriate for target or equivalent technologies (i.e. C#, JavaScript, JSON, XML, ASP.NET MVC, etc.).
• Expert capability to create and maintain SQL and / or document databases as required to support development projects.
• Leadership aptitude; adept at training and mentoring others.
• Skilled to consistently reduce software complexity while balancing short-term productivity with long-term maintenance.
• Track-record of anticipating technical problems and designing solutions to overcome them.
• Effectively facilitate cross-team work.
• Understand the business that their code supports.

Our Tech Stack:

Most things we build use:

• C#
• NET MVC / Web API
• SQL Server

Common supporting infrastructure includes:

• Centralized logging with Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Messaging with RabbitMQ
• Application monitoring with New Relic

For source control and pull requests, teams utilize GitHub.
We use automated build and deploy, and encourage unit testing.
Our code runs in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, as well as in our own data center.

Team-specific:

We’ve adopted other data stores to deal with issues of scale and performance, and to better fit our evolving data models. For example:

• MongoDB
• Azure Table Storage
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Kafka
  

We also have applications that make heavy use of the following technologies:

• React
• Ruby-on-rails
• Node.js
• Ember.js
• Scala

What’s Next:
As you’ve probably guessed, OverDrive is a place that values individuality and variety. We don’t want you to be like everyone else, we don’t even want you to be like us—we want you to be like you! So, if you're interested in joining the OverDrive team, apply below and tell us what inspires you about OverDrive and why you think you are perfect for our team.OverDrive values diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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