Senior Full stack developer

Full Stack React Developer

The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT), partnering with the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), is seeking a senior developer with full stack development experience with a focus on React and Next.js. This project will leverage their full stack development expertise to design, develop, and optimize scalable, high-performance web applications. The emphasis will be on utilizing modern front-end technologies to build user-friendly and efficient applications, while also contributing to back-end services to ensure seamless integration and functionality.

As the statewide administrator for USDA Child Nutrition programs, the Nutrition Program Services (NPS) Division of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is keenly concerned with maintaining and improving the automated information technology systems used to operate and manage all Child Nutrition (CN) Programs (i.e., School Meal Programs, Summer Food Service Program and Child, Summer EBT and Adult Care Food Program).

The senior developer resource will build a new application to handle the summer EBT program, provide maintenance and support, and when necessary, perform enhancements to ensure that NPS can successfully continue it statewide administration of USDA nutrition programs. The goals of this project are to:

Build a new application that meets the needs of the schools and the districts for the summer EBT program.

Assist in ensuring Minnesota's compliance with USDA regulations.

Sample Tasks

• Collaborate with business users, business analysts, architects, and developers to design and implement software solutions, focusing on both front-end development (React, Next.js) and back-end development (Node.js, Express).
• Provide work estimates to the project manager, regularly update on progress, and track progress against the project plan, ensuring the milestones are met.
• Formulate technical design, program specifications and basic prototypes.
• Elicit/refine requirements and transform software designs and specifications into high functioning code in the appropriate language.
• Architect, design and integrate individual software solutions to dependent systems.
• Use modern web-based development tools to create and enhance applications, focusing on performance optimization techniques such as lazy loading, SSR (Server-Side Rendering), code splitting, and SSG (Static Site Generation).
• Test, debug, and optimize code to ensure that both front-end and back-end components meet performance and functional requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (business, development, QA) to define testing and acceptance procedures, ensuring the software is thoroughly tested and meets project standards.
• Perform upgrades to make software and systems more secure and efficient.
• Collaborate with business analyst, developers, and management to provide training, knowledge transfer, and documentation for technical support staff.
• Work independently and within the team to design, build, and implement both front-end and back-end components, including server-side logic, APIs, and database interactions that support front-end functionality.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior developers, ensuring high code quality and best practices are followed, and help improve their skills through regular code reviews and training.
• Maintain high code quality standards through regular code reviews, automated testing, and ongoing performance optimizations, ensuring seamless integration between the front-end and back-end systems.
• Transfer knowledge to project stakeholders.

Desired Experience and Skills:

• 5 years of professional experience in full stack web development, with at least 3 years focused on front-end development using React and Next.js.
• Extensive experience in building and deploying full stack web applications using React, Next.js, and back-end technologies like Node.js, Express, or similar frameworks, along with familiarity of RESTful APIs or GraphQL.
• Proficiency in SQL, with experience in designing and optimizing complex queries, as well as managing interactions between front-end applications and databases. Additional experience with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha) and writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure the reliability and functionality of both front-end and back-end components.
• Designing, developing, and ability to maintain high-performance, scalable web applications using React, Material UI and Next.js. Create and manage reusable component libraries to ensure consistency across projects and future scalability.
• Implementation of server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG) features using Next.js for optimized performance.
• Collaborated with UI/UX designers to implement responsive, accessible, and visually stunning user interfaces.
• Optimized web applications for speed, scalability, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Developed APIs and work with back-end teams to integrate with server-side logic.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that adheres to coding standards and best practices.
• Implemented testing strategies, including unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Debugged and resolved performance bottlenecks, ensuring an excellent user experience.
• Worked directly with business users to elicit, refine and document requirements.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.