Sr Digital Applications Developer

Our Healthcare Insurance client is seeking a Sr Digital Applications Developer to join their team for a contract to hire role!

Our client has over 5,000 employees and is the number 1 health insurer in the state of North Carolina, serving more than 3.89 million customers. Health care is changing, and our client is leading the way by providing innovative solutions that simplify the health care system, improve efficiency and outcomes, and help rein in costs. Our client is a not-for-profit with headquarters in Durham, NC.

Position: Sr Digital Applications Developer
Term: 6 Months, Contract to Hire
Location: ** While the position is Remote, work from home, to be eligible to convert to an employee of this company, you must reside in North Carolina or one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming

Required Skills 

• Bachelors degree and 5 years of experience as a developer, designing and coding enterprise web and/or mobile applications. If no degree, must have 7 years of experience as stated above.
• Must have technical expertise in the following areas: Web/Mobile Analytics design and implementation; Responsive Design and Mobile Optimized web development and Web Content Management Systems / Platforms
• Experience with Web and Cross Platform Mobile technologies including Vue JS, React JS, ES6, Node JS, Typescript, Unit and Automated Testing
• Experience developing REST services using Java
• Demonstrable experience working in self-managed Agile Teams

Description/Comment:
Responsible for the advanced design, development, and coding of the presentation layer of the Web applications, marketing web sites and/or mobile applications.

• Serve as main technical point of contact, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, code, and maintain high quality user-centric desktop web and/or mobile applications that meet business objectives as well as usability and corporate standards.
• Analyze, design, code, test, and implement new and/or modified content and functionality for corporate web applications, websites or mobile applications.
• Determine and utilize best practices in web/mobile design, coding, testing, and maintenance to achieve high quality user-centric interface that is in compliance with legal, the brand guidelines, NCDOI, and CMS and appropriate W3C and Section 508 guidelines.
• Participate in regular content and functionality pushes to the web or mobile application, including testing and validation, troubleshooting any issues, and following the change management and release processes.
• Research and stay abreast of technology trends and IT best practices, with a focus on continuous learning and possible application to the business.
• Provide direction and assistance to less experienced staff members as needed.
• Independently perform the analysis, design and development of high volume, low latency applications for mission critical systems delivering high-availability and performance to best meet customer needs.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code to support varied and more complex IT solution
• Provide strong technical expertise and collaborate with other IT specialists to rapidly develop and deliver stunning solutions that meet changing business needs.
• Perform all necessary discovery and fact finding to fully understand more complex business problems and opportunities and independently execute all assignments.
• Evaluate options and make solution buy vs. build recommendations to management when requested.
• Analyze and recommend solutions to development and production issues while effectively communicating to the project team, applicable vendors and/or the manager in a timely manner.
• Research and stay abreast of technology trends and IT best practices, with a focus on continuous learning and possible application to the business.
• Provide direction and assistance to less experienced team members.