Junior Software Engineer

Job Summary

Join Us at PlanSource: Your Exciting Career Awaits!

At PlanSource, a leading cloud-based provider of benefits administration technology and services, we are on a mission to simplify how people choose, use, and manage benefits through cutting-edge, AI-powered experiences. This is an incredible time to launch your career with us!

 

Location: Orlando, FL or Salt Lake City, UT

 

We are currently looking for a Junior Front-End Software Engineer with a focus on mobile web development to contribute to our rapid product development pace.  Our Engineers work collaboratively to set the technical direction for our SaaS products, developing easy-to-use solutions for our customers.

 

About the Junior Front-End Software Engineer:

• The Front-End Software Engineer will be primarily responsible for the ongoing design and development of our benefits administration platform’s front-end. The position we’re looking to fill will have a primary focus on mobile web development.
• Driving new features through the full development cycle from requirements all the way through release
• Managing the development of a product and/or feature by collaborating with other team members and engineering partners
• Working closely with our Design team to add to and maintain our library of shared assets and design patterns
• Writing technical requirements from business requirements
• Writing new code and refactoring existing code
• Provide application support to our QA/Support staff
• This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a passion for building leading edge software, loves learning new and emerging technologies, and is driven to help build a successful SaaS product used by thousands of happy businesses. We foster an environment that empowers small teams to collaboratively set the technical direction of our solutions.

In addition, you should be passionate about:

• Customer satisfaction and collaboration
• Being a leader in your field and keeping your skills sharp
• Using technology to provide creative solutions that solve customer problems
• Making decisions and recommendations based on empirical data and facts
• Producing highest quality software
• Writing clean code

 

Responsibilities

• Great benefits package, including a full suite of health benefits, a generous 401(k) Plan, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, a strong rewards and recognition program, and a focus on mental health and well-being.
• An inclusive environment with Employee Resource Groups to join, volunteering days and the ability to donate to organizations of your choice through our recognition platform.
• The opportunity to work for a growing, established technology company, but work side-by-side with a small, dynamic team of talented professionals.
• Fast-paced environment with big goals and the opportunity to make a big impact.

Top five reasons to come to PlanSource:

#5: Join the Vista Family. In March 2019, Vista Equity Partners acquired PlanSource, marking a new phase of growth. Vista’s portfolio of technology and software companies collectively make up the 4th largest software ecosystem in the world.

#4: PlanSource is highly rated with our customers. Be proud of our sophisticated cloud-based technology that meets the needs of even the most complex benefit programs.

#3: Success is rewarded. With more than just a pat on the back, your success is recognized and rewarded. We take care of our employees in every way we can, with comprehensive benefits, employee recognitions, and a commitment to wellbeing.

#2: You can grow and develop professionally. PlanSource has a great track record of internal promotions within the company and offering development plans and tracks to pursue your personal and professional goals.

#1: Share our values. Be part of a team that values diversity and representation in all levels of the organization. Be part of a team that gives back to local communities and is actively aware of their social and environmental impact.

 

PlanSource is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our employees are the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and company’s achievement as well.

 

We celebrate and support our employees’ diversity in age, color, disability, ethnicity, cultural beliefs, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

 

If you’re selected, you’ll receive your offer and be asked to complete a background check. This will include a drug screen, criminal record search and verification of previous employment and/or education.

 

Qualifications

Hard Skill Requirements:

• Technical related bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Experience with transforming data from RESTful APIs
• TDD and writing useful and effective unit and integration tests
• Solid HTML5, CSS/SASS/LESS, JavaScript, TypeScript
• Experience with mobile web development
• Nice to have: experience in writing and maintaining a PWA
• Strong knowledge of React (preferably), React Native or another front-end framework such as Angular.
• Nice to have:
• 2+ years of commercial software development experience
• Experience with back-end frameworks such as Ruby/Rails
• Experience creating native web components
• Experience working in and deploying to a cloud environment, especially AWS

Soft Skill Requirements:

• Good team interaction including collaboration, negotiation and conflict resolution
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical, critical observation
• Passionate about design and user experience
• Motivated Self-Starter

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