Frontend Web Developer

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We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a Frontend Web Developer to join our tools development team.  We are working to change the way the company executes the sales process.  The candidate will primarily focus on the development and maintenance of client side logic and support systems to enable responsive, coherent, and pleasant user experience.  The ideal candidate will also have knowledge of UI design principals and be able to bring our wireframes to life.  This individual will be an integral part of the team and will work closely with back-end developers to define the necessary APIs.  The candidate should have the desire to grow into a full stack developer and will play an important part in defining how our applications look and feel.

• Design and execute project plans

• Develop and execute unit testing

• Maintain source code

• Create reusable code libraries

• Participate in API definition

• Create and maintain detailed source code and API documentation

• Ability to work independently, finding solutions to programming problems with minimal oversight

• Ability to work in a team with diverse technical backgrounds

• Ability to provide technical requirements

• Ability to adapt to changing project requirements

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• 7+ years of software development work experience

• Degree in computer engineering or related discipline

• Strong in JavaScript, React.js, redux, HTML5, and CSS3

• Familiar with front end frameworks such as bootstrap or material design

• Experienced in designing RESTful web services

• Knowledgeable in modern web application design principals

• Experienced constructing and ingesting XML and JSON

• Understanding of cross browser compatibility issues

• Experience building portable code, react native in particular

• Knowledge of application servers

• Knowledge of application servers such as apache, node.js, nginx, etc.

• Familiarity with working in Linux

Not required but a strong plus

• Experience with Python is a plus

• Prior work with web analytics technologies

• UI/UX design experience

• SASS or LESS experience

• General familiarity with the .js framework landscape(empty)

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We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.