Job Description

Pilot Flying J’s Digital Development Team is seeking a Web Application Developer to join a highly agile web development team. This team oversees a diverse portfolio of web applications across multiple technology stacks to deliver high-value features for our customers and business partners.

This role offers an opportunity to leverage your existing skillset and become grounded in best development practices and the Pilot Flying J culture. You will be involved in, and greatly influence, all aspects of systems analysis & design, development, maintenance, and enhancement for web applications. You will architect, troubleshoot, and code within an agile and innovative culture.

You will help grow our web products and services, with a focus on our long-term technology roadmap. You can expect to solve problems, empower others, and positively impact the organization. We work in a friendly atmosphere where you must deliver, but where your teammates are at your side to help you, when necessary, and not to compete with you.

As we strive to make a better day for our team members and guests, we look to continually enhance our web application properties.

1. Participate in the planning, analysis, development, and design of web applications
2. Create and develop features and functionality for scalable consumer web applications applying independent judgement and professional expertise
3. Create clean, maintainable, and tested code with supporting documentation and automated unit tests
4. Provide input for application architecture, API contract and endpoint requirements, unit and integration testing, and third-party library integration
5. Provide support for existing applications including troubleshooting bugs and general maintenance
6. Collaborate with support staff and other team members on the proper use and troubleshooting of applications
7. Work closely with UI/UX designers, backend developers, frontend developers, QA analysts, business analysts, and product managers in a highly collaborative and agile team environment
8. Collaborate with business users to define and/or clarify requirements for new or modified features
9. Assist with coordination of product releases with the team and management
10. Assist team members through mentoring, collaboration, and code reviews
11. Monitor industry trends and advocate for web development best-practices
12. Identify technical debt and collaborate with other team members for the best path forward to mitigate and modernize the product and platforms
13. Model behaviors that support the company’s common purpose; ensure guests and team members are supported at the highest level

14. Ensure all activities are in compliance with rules, regulations, policies, and procedures
15. Complete other duties as assigned

Qualifications

1. Minimum 3+ years in application development required or equivalent combination of education and experience
2. 3+ years’ experience in web application development
3. 1+ years’ experience in Agile/Scrum application development
4. 3+ years’ experience integrating RESTful APIs, or similar technologies, and web services with applications
5. Strong experience developing mobile-first responsive UIs, and familiar with templating languages (Pug/Handlebars)
6. Experience working with UI/UX designers and desire to see their designs come to life in the browser
7. Experience writing well-structured, semantic markup that is properly annotated to optimize for both SEO and a11y
8. Intimate knowledge of CSS, Preprocessors (Stylus/SCSS), Styled Components, and methodologies like BEM
9. Experience writing performant modern JavaScript (ES2015+) and working with APIs like Fetch and Local Storage
10. Experience with Svelte, or similar front-end JavaScript libraries like Vue or ReactJS
11. Experience with front-end debugging tools and methodologies in a cross-browser environment
12. Experience writing and automating unit tests
13. Experience refactoring existing code to improve its overall quality, structure, and legibility
14. Working-knowledge of front-end state management patterns and libraries like Redux, Vuex, or Svelte Store.
15. Experienced in working with and debugging front-end build systems and tooling like Vite, Gulp or Webpack.
16. Familiar with building front-end applications in Node.js using package managers like PNPM, NPM, Yarn, or Corepack
17. Knowledgeable of Single File Component architecture in libraries like Svelte and Vue
18. Knowledgeable of typed abstractions such as TypeScript
19. Ability to write and understand complex programming queries
20. Ability to understand moderately complex business and technical solutions
21. Ability to understand the fundamentals of computer science, specifically algorithms and data structures
22. Ability to apply professional expertise to contribute to team objectives and outcomes as guided
23. Ability to interpret established procedures and exercise judgment to resolve issues of medium complexity
24. 6. Ability to determine the best technology solutions to resolve problems
25. 7. Ability to utilize project management methodologies to achieve development objectives
26. 8. Ability to communicate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical users
27. 9. Ability to multi-task and handle changing priorities
28. 10. Ability to self-motivate and meet tight deadlines
29. 11. Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with frequent production releases
30. 12. Strong verbal and written communication skills
31. 13. ‘One-team’ mentality

Additional Information

• Overnight travel required is up to 5%
• Physical Requirements & Working Conditions
• General office work requiring sitting or standing for long periods of time
• Able to lift up to 25 lbs.
• Able to work evenings, weekends and odd hours as needed