Developer III (Node/React)

The Developer III role is a key role within our growing Innovation & New Products group. This group is focused on ideating, testing, creating, and scaling new products and innovations to release exponentially more children from poverty. In this role you will help implement exciting, lovable new products and help the team bring them to market through agile and iterative methods. This includes driving the thinking behind the designs and executing on the details to deliver a best-in-class experience. You will work closely with product managers, designers, other engineers, and partner teams to transform visionary ideas into a shipping product that delights your neighbors. 

The Developer III is a technical leader in supporting the lifecycle of critical corporate-wide and customer-specific technology based products. The Full Stack specialist further works with primarily third-party systems, designing and developing necessary custom entities, ensuring components meet business requirements and are ready for production environments. The Developer III will be building APIs and capabilities using NodeJS evolving around an AWS centered loosely-coupled architecture. At this career level, the incumbent generally applies independent expertise to provide design, development, and services for global, enterprise, and heavily integrated applications. Further, she or he often coaches and oversees the work of other specialists and related staff.

What will you do?

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.

• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.

• Provides application software development services and technical support for existing architecture or new deployments. Gathers requirements and develops specifications to integrate into applications. Adheres to approved standards and assists in developing new standards in software development.

• Develops program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications. Considers and/or provides multiple options or solutions to satisfy organizational needs.

• Codes, tests, including writing test plans, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications. Enhances appropriate levels of functionality through code customization and application configuration.

• Develops strategies around existing technology products to ensure these products produce expected results and benefit to customers. Ensures that improvements are successfully implemented and impacts across the value stream and application are considered.

• Provides complex technical services throughout the lifecycle of customer-specific technology based products. Primarily works with Cloud or Purchased applications.

• Collaborates on cross-functional project teams as a key resource on data processes, data governance, and application systems.

• May coach and provide expertise to other professionals and support staff in the applications development discipline.

What do you bring?

• 4 years Relevant experience working in this or a related field.

• 2 years relevant experience with React, Next.JS or React Native

• Experience in designing and developing Node JS APIs on AWS Lambda or comparable cloud experience