Senior Software Developer, Data Visualization with Security Clearance

Purpose and Impact: The Geospatial Enterprise Open Data Store (GEODS) contract provides integration, design, development, and sustainment for data services in support of the Federal Government. Regularly, developers on GEODS are involved in designing and implementing new custom features that solve unique problems as well as updating and optimizing legacy features. Each developer has the opportunity to design and implement noticeable and impactful changes to the system as a whole. This role will join a team of software developers in building, maintaining, and improving interfaces core to the GEODS contract. These interfaces will support the federal government in important business objectives. Work Schedule: Day shift, Monday through Friday. Essential Responsibilities: As a senior software developer, the expectation is that the candidate will be capable of mostly independent software development and consistent contributions involving architecture, design, and improvement of existing and new systems. The senior will be expected to be self-motivated and maintain consistent and clear communication of progress and capacity to seek direction in performing the job function in order to maintain the big picture goal of the development task. The senior software developer should be able to guide and mentor, pending gaining their own experience on the program, junior members and new members joining the program as software developers to establish and maintain a consistent culture of quality and collaboration. Below are bulleted expectations from the Senior Software Developer: * Attend daily standups to provide situational representation of progress of any current development efforts on developer's own behalf and ensure any blockers, collaboration requirements, or requests for information are met
* Participate and provide constructive critique in peer reviews of team member merge requests
* Learn, execute and improve the full software release life cycle in the program
* Contribute DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), well documented, and easy to understand code as a team member
* Create and maintain unit and integration tests to meet regression test standards
* Learn, implement, improve, maintain CI/CD pipeline for team
* Contribute to technical documentation regarding system architecture, design, usage, and release or deploy
* Provide timely analysis and response to priority issues in the system as they appear
* Collaborate with cross team dependents in preparation and production of timely, reliable, controlled releases of software components
* Provide technical expertise over system of responsibility for internal or external interested parties not directly involved in development of the codebase
* Demonstrate ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex technical concepts in a direct manner. Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands: Office environment, light physical demands, must have ability to attend to mental tasks for the duration of the workday Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities): * At least 4 years of demonstrated experience coding in Java or Python
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience in Front-end development, preferably React JavaScript
* Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD, specifically utilizing GitLab or similar Git repository
* Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform in AWS, or other cloud providers
* Demonstrated experience with Container and Orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
* Strong experience with AWS, including but not limited to EC2, DynamoDB, ECS, SQS/SNS, IAM, Lambda, and CDK
* Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate, verbally and in writing, complex technical concepts and challenges/obstacles in a clear and direct manner Security Clearance Required: * Active TS/SCI Poly Minimum Education: * Master's degree plus 2 years experience, Bachelor's degree plus 4 years experience, Associates degree plus 6 years experience, or a minimum of 8 years experience, in relevant field Minimum Years of Experience: * Master's degree plus 2 years experience, Bachelor's degree plus 4 years experience, Associates degree plus 6 years experience, or a minimum of 8 years experience, in relevant field Preferred Qualifications: * At least 4 years of demonstrated experience with software development using SAFe or similar Agile methodologies, to include working with Scrum Masters and/or Product Owners to decompose high level requirements into actionable user stories
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience coding in Python, Java, or other backend predominate language
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience in Front-end development in React, using JavaScript and/or TypeScript
* At least 4 years of demonstrated experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD, specifically utilizing GitLab or similar Git repository with either GitHub Jobs or Gitlab Job