Lead Applications Developer

With roots dating back to the 1800s, our Customer is a global professional services firm HQ’d in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. Today, they are a unique group of businesses with many enduring competitive advantages. Among them are the quality of their colleagues, deep client relationships, vast global footprint, depth of intellectual capital, and cohesive and collaborative culture.

We are seeking a Lead Applications Developer on a contract basis to support our Customer’s business needs. This role is onsite in Princeton, NJ.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and test software solutions and review code quality
• Perform code reviews
• Lead Applications Developer owns the design of the application and is responsible for the implementation with the development team and ensure the design is properly incorporated into the deliverables
• Act as technical design authority collaborating with the solution architect to implement the solution
• Provide application design feedback to the project team on an ongoing basis
• Review detailed design, code deliverables, and ensure quality
• Assist the Enterprise architects in defining, implementing and overseeing technical standards, policies and tools
• Provide technical oversight to development teams. Work with technical staff to understand problems with software and develop specifications to resolve them.
• Responsible for effective application development including integration with other systems.
• Responsible for operational effectiveness of the environment; adhere to the Process Framework.
• Proactively contribute to the system architecture and stack design, toolset, agile and DevOps approach
• Collaborate closely with Dev team members, Product Owners and business users to deliver business value
• Automate build, test (unit, functional, security vulnerability and performance) and deployment of the code part of the CI/CD pipeline by working closely with System Engineer
• Mentor developers on both technical topics and with Agile/DevOps adoption
• Estimate Development efforts for new initiatives; help define and build Development teams by working with stakeholders

• A degree in Computer Science or related field or have relevant experience
• 5+ years of development experience in applications/product development using MEAN/MERN Stack
• Must have experience or working knowledge of:
  • JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, XML, HTML, SASS/LESS/CSS
  • Web platforms such as NODE, Angular, React, MEAN/MERN Stack
  • Microservices, Micro frontend Architecture, API Management (Apigee)
  • REST API first design and Open API Specification, specifically using Swagger
  • Agile – TDD (Junit, Mockito, Jasmine, Karma) BDD (Cucumber) Pair Programming, Scrum/Kanban
  • DevOps – GitHub, Git Actions, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Selenium, Artifactory, Docker/Kubernetes, Datadog/Splunk, JMeter, Whitehat
  • Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
  • Cloud – Azure, Private Cloud
  • OS – Linux, VM Architectures
• Experience developing backend services using NestJS

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability