Full Stack Developer

As a Full-stack Developer at Nelnet, you will build the next generation platform in the lending industry. You will work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and other team members to better understand their needs in order to create new products that will impact the life of millions of customers. You will participate the development of cloud native products using microservices architecture and other leading edge technologies and practices.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Partner closely with product and design studio to craft great product experiences.
2. Design, deliver and evolve solutions and execute through hands-on configuration, development, quality assurance, and prototyping.
3. Design, deliver and evolve application and infrastructure code in an Agile software development using test-driven development methodologies.
4. Participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release.
5. Participate in the design, implementation and evolution of best of breed Development, Build and Deploy Processes and Environments.
6. Participate and promote architectural initiatives, balancing long-term velocity with short-term customer needs.

EXPERIENCE:
1. Minimum 5 years total experience delivering enterprise class web applications, with at least 3 most recent years working with ES6/7 JavaScript, TypeScript and/or similar technologies.
2. 3 years current experience building single page applications with popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, Ember, Babel, Webpack, Underscore, etc.).
3. Previous experience developing microservices
4. Previous experience building, maintaining and/or evolving a development processes and environments (SCM, CI/CD, Build Tools, Deployment Tools …etc.)
5. Previous experience building, maintaining and/or evolving development, test and production environments in a cloud environment

COMPETENCIES – SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:
1. Solid fundamental understanding of testing (including stubbing, functional, unit, and e2e)
2. Practical experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
3. Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST)
4. Experience using CI/CD tools and systems such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitLab, GitHub, etc.
5. Experience with Material.io, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, Bootstrap, and cross-