Senior Web Developer (Backend)

Job DescriptionOur client has called on iSphere to find a Senior Web Developer for an amazing and challenging contract to perm opportunity in the California Bay Area! The Back-end Web Developer will be responsible for supporting the conceptualizing, development, designing, building, testing, scaling, and expanding of an interactive web application interface for browsing near real-time imagery and data. Through the web app, the customers will follow along with our clients AMAZING Technology ANYONE would want to be a part of This role is exciting!

• Experience designing high-volume web services for hundreds of thousands to millions of simultaneous users.
• Experience with high-performance time series or key-value databases (e.g., InfluxDB, Redis).
• Experience with real-time data streaming (e.g., sockets, Protocol Buffers, message brokers such as ActiveMQ).
• Experience building client-side web applications using ES6 JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5.
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code. Ability to manage code libraries and use version control (e.g., Git) for consistent management of work.
• Strong writing skills for creating technical documentation and strong ability to communicate effectively in-person, through chat, video conferencing, and e-mail.
• API and web services experience.

• Experience with the Vue JS framework.
• Experience with streaming real-time data to web browsers (e.g., via Websockets, chunked HTTP responses, server sent events).
• Understanding of what it takes to produce a great user experience (UX/UI) with a natural talent for design (layout, spacing, typography, and color).
• Data visualization, graphic design or web mapping experience.
• Strong testing skills and continuous integration experience.
• Experience with mobile development.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related technical field and a minimum of three years of progressive professional experience designing and developing web sites and interfacing with web services.