Are you a high performer? Now is your chance to check out a career opportunity with New Benefits, Ltd., America’s leading wholesaler of customizable non-insured health, personal security, financial, travel, and leisure benefits! We have served associations, insurance companies, banks, credit unions, brokerage/consulting firms, insurance agencies, TPAs and employers since 1990. Thousands of clients and millions of members trust New Benefits to deliver exceptional customer service and support, superior products, administration, print services, billing and compliance while promoting integrity and honesty in the marketing of non-insured products and services.
Our office is conveniently located in the North Dallas area and we are looking for YOU to be a part of our continued growth and success. Dazzling customer service is our promise!
We offer a fun, business casual environment with a strong company culture focused on employee engagement and recognition. As a valued member of our family, the IT Data Analyst is eligible for a comprehensive benefits plan including paid vacations and holidays, 401(k) with company match, health, voluntary dental, paid life insurance and a New Benefits discount card.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Junior Full Stack Developer who is a well-organized thought leader. This individual must also be able to collaborate effectively with business owners, clients, and IT to ensure the best possible customer experience. In terms of front-end development, the Junior Full Stack Developer will work closely with the marketing design team to create the user interface design. Using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, he/she will then build the application or web front-end to create an engaging modern user interface that delivers an effective user experience. On the back end, the developer will be responsible for architecting an application that is scalable, responsive, dynamic, and flexible, utilizing modern data access techniques.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Work within the scaled agile for the enterprise (SAFe) development methodology to enable us to readily ship new features into production at scale
- Develop and maintain our web framework to serve the needs of different areas of the business and user personas
- Develop applications to leverage existing microservices framework and collaborate with team members to build new microservices to meet current and future needs
- Implement new logging, data collection, and storage architectures to support our data and data-driven insights
- Own web development projects from the backend to the presentation layer
- Work through a variety of technical challenges that will require creativity and close collaboration across internal functions
- Own the deployment process
- Release early, release often (we love continuous integration)
- Application and Data Architecting
- At least 1-2 years of experience developing scalable, dynamic applications
- At least 1-2 years of experience architecting responsive data structures
- At least 1-2 years of experience working with Microsoft SQL
- Front-End
- Strong web fundamentals in technologies like HTML/HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS/CSS3
- Proficient in .Net stack, C#
- Proficient in JavaScript frameworks like ReactJS, Node.js, AJAX, JSON
- Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap
- Experience and knowledge of content management systems
- Solid understating of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and modern programming techniques and design patterns
- Experience working with a design system is a plus Back-end
- API design and development
- CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
- Experience using and developing microservices
- Server-side languages like Java, JavaScript, and .Net
- Web server technologies like J2EE, IIS
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field from an
accredited university
- Ability to translate key business requirements into application design
- Experience or familiarity with architectural patterns of large, high-scale web or mobile applications
- Demonstrated design and UX proficiency; experience visualizing UIs and the ability to customize components to fit the application
- Ability to handle ambiguous or undefined problems effectively
- Experience designing, developing, configuring, implementing, and managing
applications
- Experience working and delivering applications in an Agile development environment
- Rigor in A/B testing, test coverage, and other web best practices
- Knowledge or experience with web performance testing preferred
- Experience with AWS or Azure preferred
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and design approach to development
- Familiarity with Scaled Agile (SAFe) is a plus
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function
Core Competencies (F.L.I.I.P.):
- Flexibility – Maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment and adjusts effectively to work within new structures, processes, requirements or cultures. Remains flexible in spite of adversity. Embraces change.
- Leadership – Facilitates a positive and productive team oriented environment. Provides open communication/feedback within the team. Builds collaboration to maintain productive teams. Treats people with honesty and respect. Maintains positive relationships with employees at all levels. Uses appropriate interpersonal styles to establish effective relationships with clients, vendors and internal partners. Interacts with others in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s intentions.
- Innovation – Identifies and accomplishes challenging objectives or personal goals. Works effectively with others to achieve goals. Looks for and takes advantage of opportunities. Maintains a high level of interest, enthusiasm and personal performance. Takes steps to improve processes and find better solutions. Champions quality work and proactively takes steps to correct errors or improve overall products/solutions. Drives continuous improvement. Demonstrates a willingness to change approach based on feedback.
- Integrity – Supports and upholds the organization’s standards and values. Demonstrates honesty, reliability and professionalism. Maintains the highest ethical standards.
- Passion – Provides excellent customer service to internal clients, partners, vendors and teams. Responds promptly, professionally, effectively, and efficiently. Recognizes sense of urgency in responding to needs. Follows up to ensure requests, needs, and commitments are met consistently.
Reports to: VP of Information Technology
Classification: Exempt