Senior Front-End Developer

Hybrid, Brussels 

400-500 euro/day

1. CONTEXT/INTRODUCTION

European Commission agency which provides high quality corporate solutions/information systems for the Policy Units in GROW, but also to Member States, enabling the successful implementation of the Commission's Digital Transformation and EU policies.

2.DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS

• Development of front-end website architecture.
• Design of user interactions on web pages.
• Development of features to enhance the user experience.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
• Cross-platform optimisation.
• Design responsive applications.
• Design and develop APIs.
• Participating in the design and creation of scalable software.
• Maintenance of code integrity and organisation.
• Writing clean, functional code on the front-end.
• Compile and analyse data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Testing and fixing bugs or other coding issues. Meet both technical and consumer needs.
• Write technical documentation.

3.LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Masters/Bachelors Degree

4. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

The following additional skills and knowledge are required for the performance of the above-listed tasks:

• In depth knowledge of HTML 5 and CSS 3
• In depth knowledge of Java 8 and Java 11, Java 17 and above are plus.
• In depth and proven knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, Validation, Testing and Spring Security
• In depth knowledge of Relational DBMS
• Good knowledge of Agile principles
• Good knowledge of interoperability technology (Service Oriented Architecture, web services, message-oriented middleware, service-oriented bus).
• Knowledge of UML, in particular use case diagrams and activity diagrams.
• Capability to write clear and structured technical documents
• Ability to give business and technical presentations.
• Ability to apply high quality standards
• Analysis and problem-solving skills
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in application architecture and design

• NON-Technical skills:

  • Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment.

  • Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple projects with multiple

    stakeholders.

  • Ability to understand, speak and write English (C1/C2) will be an advantage.

  • High degree of discretion and integrity is required

5. SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:

• In depth knowledge of, and experience with Spring, including Core, JPA/Hibernate, Security and MVC
• In depth knowledge of, and experience with Struts
• In depth knowledge and skills on using Continuing Development / Continuing Integration techniques, knowledge of source code control repositories (GIT/Bitbucket) and build tools such as Maven or Gradle.
• In depth knowledge of, and experience working with Oracle
• In depth knowledge of, and experience working Weblogic 3
• In depth knowledge of, and experience with modern security frameworks/protocols : JWT, OAUTH2 and CAS
• In depth knowledge of, and experience working with REST and SOAP webservices
• In depth knowledge of, and experience working with JSON format with JAX-WS and with Jackson
• In depth knowledge of, and experience working with JMS
• In depth knowledge of, and experience working with Javascript framework JQuery.
• In depth knowledge of, and experience with HTML 5 and CSS3
• Good knowledge and experience working with Javascript framework Angular.
• Good knowledge and experience working with Javascript framework KendoJS.
• Good knowledge and experience working with Javascript framework RequireJS.
• Good knowledge and experience working with Tomcat
• Good knowledge and experience working with AWS cloud.
• Good knowledge and experience working with Kafka messages.
• Good knowledge and experience working with BPMN
• Good knowledge and experience with MySQL
• Experience working with the Atlassian Suite, JIRA Confluence Bitbucket and Bamboo