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As a Frontend Engineer, you will be key team member on a results-driven team delivering an Enterprise-level alerts and notifications system. Hosted in the cloud, this high profile application will be used by a wide variety of consumers, from clients to home office to field representatives. This role requires a mix of skills and responsibilities and you’ll be expected to jump right in, leveraging your expertise to provide creative solutions while learning new technologies. Must have strong ownership of day-to-day responsibilities and maintain the long-term view of the product. This position will split time in the following areas: 70% AngularJS, Javascript, API; 20% Architect/Mentoring and 10% Cloud infrastructure. You are a highly passionate problem solver and take initiative to work collaboratively and efficiently with others.

Must Have:

• Senior Engineer with experience building scalable large enterprise notification services
• Architect mindset with developer skills to turn high level design into production-ready software
• Mentor mentality to help guide teams through design and build
• Experience defining and structuring RESTful APIs for notification based services
• Experience building event driven micro service architectures
• Infrastructure as a Service design, including Scalability/Portability in the Cloud
• Strong Javascript
• Container Orchestration, Docker/Kubernetes  
• AngularJS 1.x
• Ability to adjust to change and unknowns while maintaining a high level of quality

Nice to Have: 

• Experience with Microsoft Azure architecture and service offerings
• Experience as Cloud Engineer; including knowledge of Networking, Storage, Authentication, Infrastructure as Code (Ansible).
• Azure to On-Premise Connectivity/Security
• Dev Ops
• Continuous Delivery; TeamCity/Jenkins
• API Management; ApiGee
• Nginx
• Notification Preference Management
• Compliance Management
• Backend experience in Java and/or .NET
• Agile/Scrum methodologies and practices
• Knowledge of insurance and investment products