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 role
The Web Applications Developer will be joining the Digital Experience team. This role will be part of a team responsible for delivering implementations on web technologies.
What you’ll bring
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain dynamic, responsive, and performant user interfaces using React.js.
- Manage the application state effectively with Redux, React Context, or other state management solutions.
- Develop Node.js serverless functions on AWS Lambda to integrate with frontend React applications and external APIs.
- Leverage AWS Amplify and AWS Lambda along with other AWS services like API Gateway, S3, and DynamoDB to create scalable, secure backend solutions.
- Consume RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints in the front end, integrating with AWS Lambda and other services for serverless backends.
- Utilize AWS services for deployment, scaling, and monitoring, including AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, and AWS S3.
- Optimize both frontend and backend (Lambda) for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Work closely with backend engineers, UX/UI designers, and product managers to define and implement user-centric solutions.
- Implement security best practices for both frontend (React) and serverless backend (Node.js, AWS Lambda).
- Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment and testing of frontend and serverless backend code.
Qualifications
- 2+ years’ experience with strong expertise in designing and implementing web applications.
- Strong experience in React.js with a deep understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.
- Expertise in managing state using libraries such as Redux, React Context, or similar tools.
- Experience with AWS Amplify for rapid application deployment and management.
Solid experience in building Node.js applications with a focus on AWS Lambda for serverless architectures. - Hands-on experience with AWS services such as AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, and IAM.
- Proficiency in integrating RESTful APIs or GraphQL with frontend and serverless backend services.
- Experience with Git and version control platforms such as GitHub or GitLab.
Understanding of web security principles (CORS, authentication, encryption, etc.) and implementing security measures in AWS and frontend applications. - Strong understanding of cloud-native application development principles and AWS best practices.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to optimize and debug both frontend and serverless code.
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 make a 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.
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What We Do
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., guides our customers from what’s now to what’s next by solving their digital challenges. Working alongside each customer, we apply our unmatched industrial and digital capabilities to their data and applications to benefit both business and society. More than 80% of the Fortune 100 trust Hitachi Vantara to help them develop new revenue streams, unlock competitive advantages, lower costs, enhance customer experiences, and deliver social and environmental value. Visit us at hitachivantara.com.
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