Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (CMS)

Senior Software Engineer- Full Stack (CMS)
American Public Education, Inc. 

American Public Education, Inc (APEI) is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (CMS) who will provide solution design, development, and support of applications and environments steeped in .Net, Angular, NodeJS, REST API’s and SQL Server by helping to launch and support the next generation CMS digital platform that’s the future of our company. This is an extraordinary opportunity to lead and utilize your problem-solving and coding skills to develop our headless digital experience platform, personalization and content infrastructure.

The Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (CMS) should be self-motivated, and adept in performing engineering responsibilities within a deadline and fast-paced environment. Proven and experienced full stack developer with extensive experience of multiple back-end languages, JavaScript frameworks, API development, and custom plugins and tools.  She/he will be responsible for working on full software development life cycle efforts using agile methodologies, solid design patterns and practices.  The Senior Engineer may lead, mentor, and assist other team members to ensure accurate and timely diagnosis/resolution of application issues that impact workforce productivity. They will also partner with IT, Marketing, and other Business teams to identify, define, analyze and implement changes and enhancements with high scalability, performance, and availability (24x7) in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Advanced hands-on experience delivering and implementing a cloud-based CMS
• Advanced experience in one or more of the following platforms and capabilities: Content personalization preferred with Sitefinity Cloud
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming and latest .NET Core versions
• Understanding the importance of applying taxonomy rules will be necessary to organize and classify content
• Designs, develops, and implements effective, intuitive user interfaces for Web applications, APIs, and Web properties
• Provides technical solutions and innovative ideas to the business and internal clients
• Understands browser specific compatibility issues as well as the benefits of the various design methodologies
• Researches and remains current on industry trends relating to Web accessibility, usability, and emerging technologies to drive and evangelize best practices
• Responds rapidly to continuous changes and troubleshoots issues as they arise
• Demonstrates expert knowledge in Web presentation technologies (e.g. REST, JSON, XML)
• Translates design requirements and specifications into robust high quality code implementations
• Performs code unit tests and demonstrates the ability to properly validate functionality of work produced
• Writes and maintains computer code, programs, and specifications documentation
• Communicates the status of projects regularly and in a clear and concise way
• Works independently with limited supervision as well as within a team environment
• Performs other tasks as assigned

Requirements:

• Overall 6+ years of experience developing web applications on the Microsoft technology stack using C# and JavaScript.
• 3+ years of experience developing traditional and headless content management systems (CMS), such as Sitecore and Sitefinity.
• 3+ years of experience with JavaScript frameworks with React, Vue.js, or Angular, creating and consuming RESTful, OData and SOAP based Web Services, JavaScript Object Notification (JSON), XML, and interface design.
• Experience developing utilizing DevOps/Agile SDLC, Testing, and CI/CD required.
• Experience with mobile Web Development (HTML5, Bootstrap, JQuery Mobile).
• Experience integrating and analyzing google analytics.
• Expertise with debugging code, triaging issues, and providing customer experience enhancing solutions.
• Experience with multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js, jQuery), specifically with .NET Core.
• Solid knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML).
• Solid experience with front-end bundling/compilers (e.g. Gulp, Webpack, Rollup).
• Experience with databases (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. IIS, Apache) and UI/UX design.
• Ability to develop with Web Content Management Systems (CMS), Responsive Web development skills.
• Ability to follow Web accessibility (Section 508 and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)) standards.
• Understanding of common User Experience (UX)/User Interface (UI) design patterns, best practices, and