Why WWT?

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

WWT was founded in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri. We employ more than 10,000 people globally and closed nearly $20 billion in revenue in 2023. We have an inclusive culture and believe our core values are the key to company and employee success. WWT is proud to have been included on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list 13 years in a row!

World Wide Technology, Inc. is currently seeking a Team Lead for our ATC (Advanced Technology Center) Delivery - Core Development Team. This is a great opportunity to join our development leadership team who exhibit a passion for both leadership and quality software development.

 

What is the Core Development Team and why join?

The Core Development team's main responsibility is building and maintaining core APIs, components, a design system, and developer productivity tools used by developers throughout our organization. In addition, our team develops and maintains features within the ATC Platform that allow us to directly consume our core services within a customer facing context. You’ll join a team of passionate software developers and QA Engineers focused on the evolution of wwt.com and implementing solutions that help WWT’s customers make technology decisions.  

 

Our Core Development team is responsible for a variety of critical application infrastructure components across the WWT ecosystem that accelerate custom web application development. We are the maintainers of several reusable services, APIs, and components that other WWT development teams can leverage to make their application development journey a little easier. Our team is passionate about customer experience and developer experience. We balance driving meaningful customer outcomes with creating new efficiencies and enhanced experiences for our internal development community – helping teams ship software with higher quality, resiliency, confidence, and ease.  

 

Here are some recent examples of the impactful work we’ve been involved in: 

Collaborated with our UX team to deliver a component library based on our WWT Design System (we call it Blue Steel). Automated accessibility audits of our VueJS components to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards. Created internal developer tooling to quickly scaffold VueJS projects and NodeJS APIs. Implemented an AI-powered spam detection system to enhance the integrity of our discussion forums on wwt.com and protect our customer service team from unwanted contact submissions. Integrated service requests from wwt.com into a third-party ticketing system to streamline the workflow of our support teams’ interactions with customers. Migrated various pages of wwt.com to a newer, upgraded Nuxt application. Built a new Help Center for wwt.com. Enhanced our caching strategy for user information leveraged by multiple Node APIs that rely on quick, accurate user data. Rewrote a legacy, Grails-based API responsible for managing user access in NodeJS.

What will you be doing?

As a Team Lead, you’ll be responsible for the delivery of work and for ensuring that the team is high performing and healthy. Along with leading a team of 3-5 developers and a QA Engineer, you will also be designing, building, testing, and delivering software along with the team.