Full Stack Developer
At MassMutual, we’re passionate about helping millions of people find financial freedom and this passion has driven our approach to developing highly interactive digital experiences for our customers. The Digital Experience team, part of MassMutual’s Customer Experience organization, is comprised of collaborative, cross-functional, product centric groups who like to have fun, challenge each other, and are energized to create innovative solutions that exceed the changing needs of our customers. We design, build, and support all of MassMutual’s customer-facing digital assets.
To help us achieve our mission, we are hiring Full Stack Developers to join our team.
What great looks like in this role
Our ideal Full Stack Developer candidate is team-oriented, possesses excellent communication skills, and is skilled in all levels of web architecture and application development. You’ve developed multiple tiered web applications in the past, and are intimately familiar with web technologies. You know how to integrate 3rd party tools and agents to monitor performance and defects, and you deliver your products by following the best practices in continuous delivery.
You’re also team-oriented and take a collaborative approach to working with others. With a flat leadership structure, the opportunity for flexibility within role, and development into other areas is a core reason most people desire to work in Digital Experience at MassMutual.
Objectives of this role
Drive toward the effective utilization of the latest technologies, partnering with business stakeholders across the team, as well as experts in other areas including data science to achieve these goals.
Learn and master new and emerging technologies and take initiative to offer technical direction and creative solutions.
Own all aspects of a product’s technical implementation, and can advise, mentor, and coach other developers and/or consumers of the product.
Daily and monthly responsibilities
Develop specifications of extremely complex software programming applications
Responsible for components of an application or the overall operating system or complex sub-systems, such as sophisticated file management routines, large telecommunications networks, administrative and statistical software packages, performance evaluation and enhancements
Perform related duties as assigned or requested
Receives general supervision and is competent to work at the highest level of all technical phases of software programming while working on own most of the time
May act as Project Leader
Skills and qualifications
Over 7 years experience with 5 of the following:
Web Stack: expertise in HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript
Testing: experience testing systems with mock services/service virtualization
Cloud Architecture: expertise building stateless/”12 factor” applications
Continuous Integration: experience building pipelines to support continuous delivery; experience designing and modeling the value stream
Git: expertise with workflow steps, including: branching, merging, rebasing, pull requests; expertise in reversion and alternative git flows
APIs: expertise building RESTful APIs; proficiency publishing API specifications, such as Swagger docs
Scripting Languages: expertise in system scripting languages, such as bash, Python, or Ruby
Over 5 years experience with 4 of the following:
Docker: experience running containers, managing volumes, managing images, docker-compose, swarm mode
Virtualization: experience with virtual machines; familiarity with building images with packer
Application Logging: expertise with application logging, including: log shipping, centralized aggregation, exploration tools (Splunk, ELK, etc)
Caching: expertise with using caching systems for performance: CDNs, page caching, object caching, query caching, etc.
Cloud Deployments: extensive experience with cloud deployment systems, such as Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Fargate, Cloud Foundry, Heroku; expertise operating zero downtime deployments via “blue/green” (or “red/black”), rolling deployments, or canary releases
Security: experience with modern security patterns and practices, such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and jwt tokens
DNS: experience with controlling naming services for public and private networks; experience with round-robin, aliases, and common names
Over 3 years experience with 2 of the following:
Application Monitoring: experience with systems for monitoring system performance (AppDynamics, New Relic, AppNeta, etc)
Defect Detection: experience with systems for automatically detecting defects (Sentry, etc)
Database Deployments: experience deploying database system and content updates with zero downtime
Mentorship: experience mentoring junior developers on advanced concepts; experience championing new technology
2+ years experience with technical writing for any of these types of documentation:
Troubleshooting/How-To articles
Tutorials
Reference material
Authorized to work in the United States with or without sponsorship
Bachelor’s degree
Preferred qualifications
Experience with CSS frameworks (e.g. Sass, Less)
Experience with JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Backbone.js, ReactJS, Redux)
Experience with unit test frameworks (e.g. mocha, chai,
Experience collaborating with a team of programmers with varying skill sets
Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work in a rapid and iterative development environment
Superior communication skills with the ability to work directly with business partners