Java Developer at Norrenberger Financial Group

Job Description

• We are looking for a Java and Angular Developer with 4 years’ experience.
• Your primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a mobile and desktop web app, with a focus on performance.
• Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app.
• The artistic design will be delivered to you, together with a few HTML templates, but we will ask for your help in regard to animations, CSS, and final HTML output.
• You will work in a team, and communicate with the API using standard methods.
• A thorough understanding of all of the components of our platform and infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities

• Delivering a complete front-end and back-end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services

Skills and Qualifications

• JavaServer pages (JSP) and servlets
• Web frameworks (e.g., Struts and Spring)
• Service-oriented architecture/web services (SOAP/REST)
• Web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery
• Markup languages like XML and JSON
• Object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts and patterns
• Abstract classes and interfaces
• Collections: lists, maps, sets
• Exceptions (checked and unchecked)
• Java keywords: static, final, volatile, synchronized, transient, this super, etc.
• Java virtual machine (JVM) and memory management
• Multithreading and synchronization
• Dependency injection
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Deep knowledge of Angular practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system
• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps
• Extensive knowledge of CSS, JS methods and typescript for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
• Working with SQL database to create and integrate restful services.
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
• Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well-reasoned alternative)
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
• Perform other task assigned to you by the HOD