Frontend Software Engineer

Description

The company builds mission-focused data and analytics software and needs a frontend engineer to make its web applications intuitive and reliable.

You will work alongside designers, backend engineers, and data scientists to design user experiences for data-lake and data-warehouse environments.

The frameworks, customer locations, and onsite schedules depend on the specific opening.

Responsibilities

• Build, improve, keep running, and debug browser-based web applications and user interfaces.
• Write and review JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, using a modern frontend framework where it fits.
• Partner with designers, backend engineers, and data scientists to ship interfaces that are coherent and easy to use.
• Define, consume, and connect REST-based APIs to the frontend.
• Look into issues customers report, rank the fixes, and support the applications in use.
• Write unit tests, run quality-assurance checks, and take part in code reviews.
• Work with the team to produce code that is easy to maintain and steadily raise application quality.

Requirements

• You must hold an active U.S. Government Secret clearance or higher and be a U.S. citizen.
• You need at least 5 years of frontend software development or engineering experience with a related bachelor's degree, 3 years with a related master's degree, or 9 years with a high-school diploma or equivalent.
• You know JavaScript and have used at least one web application framework such as Vue, React, Angular, or Backbone, or can show comparable skill.
• You have built or maintained frontend web applications and worked with HTML and CSS.
• You are familiar with Git or similar version-control tools and comfortable on the Unix/Linux command line.
• You can work on your own and with others, juggle several tasks or tickets, and troubleshoot problems with good judgment.
• You can earn a DoD 8140/8570 compliance certification, such as Security+, within 60 days of hire.
• You can meet the hybrid or onsite schedule of the specific opening, including regular time at the Columbia, MD office for the current opening.
• Nice to have: you have built frontend applications for a data lake or data warehouse.
• Nice to have: you have worked with more than one frontend framework such as Vue, React, Angular, or Backbone.
• Nice to have: you have improved usability, done frontend code reviews, or expanded automated unit or quality-assurance tests.
• Nice to have: you have worked with design, backend engineering, and data science teams on REST API-driven web applications.

Conditions

Work may happen at a customer site, at the office, or in a hybrid arrangement, depending on the opening.

Positions may be in Columbia, MD or San Antonio, TX.

Hybrid work averages 1 to 2 days per week at the office, and you must be flexible with scheduling.

The Maryland pay range is $100,163 to $152,103 USD, and the $100,163.00 to $152,103.00 range applies to this role.

Pay depends on factors such as location, federal contract labor category, wage rates, experience, skills, education, and certifications.

Benefits

• A robust health plan with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• A Health Savings Account with a company contribution.
• Annual paid time off and paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• A 401k with a generous company match.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Award programs.
• Company-sponsored events.
• Support for healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.