Javascript Developers

For our international institution client in The Hague we are looking for JavaScript experts to ensure development of new features and maintenance of browser-based rich clients, which rely on the data delivered by middle-tier services. Candidates should have excellent communication skills both oral and written in English;with strong organisational skills to work under pressure and prioritise tasks based on business severity and impact;

Tasks include:

- Participation in system design specification sessions to document technical specifications and to provide design options and solutions;
- Coding and maintenance using technical specifications to update existing applications and/or to develop new ones;
- Development of applications following industry best practices and available guidelines;
- Ensure that builds are properly deployed in development, system, acceptance and production environments;
- Review code to identify and fix errors;
- Prepare test cases and strategies for unit testing and integration testing;
- Provide support and assistance to operational teams in their activities through the complete software release life cycle 

Deliverables:

- Source code changes for the maintenance of the software systems in the scope described above;
- Technical documentation of any software changes;
- Enhanced regression and load test scripts;
- Regression test results;
- Packaged software;
- Source code review of 3rd Party software developments.

Mandatory skills and experience:

- Languages: JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, XSL;
- Building and CI tools: Maven 2, Jenkins;
- Web technologies: Ajax, JavaScript libraries
- Cross-browser compatibility expertise (IE, Firefox, Chrome)
- Operating Systems: Unix/Linux (SLES 10), Win XP/7; Bash and GNU/Linux command line;
- Revision control: SVN;

Desirable skills and experience:

- Spnego/Kerberos;
- Hazelcast;
- Image processing and implementation of OCR techniques;
- MongoDB;
- Atlassian JIRA and Confluence;
- Ant and Nexus;
- Fitness.