Full stack developer (Python & Django)

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The team

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a Full Stack Web Developer to join our product development team. We are working to upgrade the company’s management platform. The candidate will primarily focus on the development and maintenance of client-side logic and support systems to enable a responsive, coherent, and pleasant user experience. The ideal candidate will also have knowledge of UI design principles and be able to bring our wireframes to life single-handedly and as part of an international development team. This individual will be an integral part of the team and will work closely with product engineering teams, product management, and sales teams to gather requirements.

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of software development work experience
• BS in computer engineering or related discipline
• Strong in JavaScript, React.js, redux, HTML5, and CSS3
• Experienced Full stack web developer, strong preference for Python with Django Rest Framework
• Experienced in designing RESTful web services
• Experience working in ORM framework such as Django ORM or SQL Alchemy
• Knowledgeable in modern web application design principals
• Experience designing and maintaining databases
• Experienced in constructing and ingesting XML and JSON
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
• Experience building portable code, react native in particular
• Super strong AWS solution design and deployment in production environments at scale
• Ability to work within an agile software development team
• Knowledge of application servers such as Apache, node.js, nginx, etc.
• Familiarity with working in Linux
  
  

Key Job Functions Include

• Design and execute project plans
• Maintain source code
• Create reusable code libraries
• Participate in API definition and development
• Create POC web applications alone
• Gather and refine requirements
• Participate in meetings with offshore development teams
• Perform basic server administration and setup when needed
  
  

Key skills include

• Ability to work independently, finding solutions to programming problems with minimal oversight
• Ability to lead a team with diverse technical backgrounds
• Ability to provide technical requirements to the team
• Ability to adapt to changing project requirements
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
  
  

About Us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

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Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How We Look After You

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.