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South Park

Los Angeles, California - United States
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Software Engineer and Web Developer

Description

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.