Software Engineer and Web Developer

Role Overview:

South Park Digital Studios is actively seeking a highly skilled and motivated web developer and frontend engineer for the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of dynamic, cross-platform, and multilingual user experiences for a global audience. The perfect candidate embodies creativity, self-driven initiative, adaptability across various functions, a quick grasp of concepts, and an eagerness to both acquire new proficiencies and elevate existing ones. Adept multitasking and robust time-management skills are essential traits for this role.

To excel in this position, a strong sense of teamwork, unconventional problem-solving capabilities, proficiency in multiple programming languages, and a genuine enthusiasm for collaborating within a cross-functional and DevOps-oriented environment are crucial. It's important to highlight that submission of a portfolio along with code samples is a mandatory requirement for consideration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the product, design and engineering teams.
• Research new technologies and propose solutions to user needs.
• Identify UI problems and bugs and devise elegant solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and ship code on a daily basis.
• Develop fully functional web applications that align with business objectives.
• Follow the best practices in developments and improve them.
• Complete all required paperwork and documentation according to guidelines and deadlines as assigned.
• Exemplify both technical expertise and empathy.
• Overhaul user interfaces to optimize for speed and ease of use.
• Assist in the test strategy and execution of master test plan.

 Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience building intuitive systems in Javascript technologies such as React, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
• HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility
• Experience with browser APIs and optimizing front-end performance
• 4+ years of experience modeling data flow between systems to enable transactional workflows and upstream/downstream integrations
• Able to analyze, debug and troubleshoot problems in the code.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is preferred)
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable web applications
• Experience working with cross-browser behaviors and quirks
• Experience with Node.js
• Passion for UI; Good sense of usability and design
• Experience working with different teams
• 4+ years of experience working with code bases building microservices, REST APIs,
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, PHP (Plus)
• Knowledge of distributed caches (like Redis, Memcache, etc.) and Pub/Sub (like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) (Plus)
• Experience with full stack development, preferably in one or more OO programming languages like C# or Java (Plus)

Interested applicants should e-mail ASAP a resume to spdsjobs@lacasabonita.com.  Please type “Software Engineer/Web Developer” in the subject line.