Full Stack Developer

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Wage/Salary Range: $100k - $120k

Applicants will be notified via email or phone within ten business days regarding application status.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate will provide scientific, oceanographic, engineering and Geospatial Information System (GIS) application programming, system design, and system maintenance support services to ensure the efficient operation of computing resources.

• In this hands-on position, you will work collaboratively to architect, design, build, deliver, and enhance highly available, scalable, real-time systems. You will exercise your judgment in determining and recommending the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines, and other resource constraints. You will participate in and/or direct major deliverable of projects through all aspects of the software development life cycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, and unit testing.

• Develop new, enhance and maintain existing CO-OPS software applications, and adhere to the CO-OPS’s change management and governance procedures.

• Create new and maintain existing software applications in various programming languages, including Python, Java, JavaScript, Fortran, C/C++, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), CSS, shell scripting and related technologies, including charting tools such as Highcharts,GNU plot, Mapping API tools (Google Maps, Esri, Leaflet), Content Management System (i.e WordPress), ArcGIS, SQL, Single-Sign-on (i.e. ActivClient), and AWS technologies such as Elastic Beanstalk, S3, command line interfaces, etc.

• Collaborate with CO-OPS users to derive application requirements.

• Ability to port legacy systems to new operating systems, recommend improvements in application design to improve application performance and security, and provide accurate and reliable oceanographic data ingestion and dissemination services to ensure high data quality.

• Provide troubleshooting and operational support to ensure data availability and accuracy.

• Address bug fixes for related applications and optimize applications in the cloud.

• Support the software life cycle elements, including, but are not limited to

• requirement analysis

• design

• testing

• implementation

• documentation

• maintenance

• training

• Maintain consistency across the development, testing, and production environments, including the configuration libraries required for the specific scientific and GIS programming languages and technologies., The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of mental alertness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Primarily working at a desk.

Work Environment

The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of situational awareness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Hybrid position in office Tuesday, Wed. and Thursday

Education Requirements: BS/BA degree and a minimum of 5 years of demonstrated IT development experience * Level of Experience Requirements: 5 years of demonstrated IT development experience

• Develop, enhance and maintain existing CO-OPS software applications, and adhere to the CO-OPS’s change management and governance procedures.

• Experience with Agile Scrum methodology and working in a SecDevOps environment
• Experience working with containerized applications
• 3+ years’ experience developing cloud ready applications and/or experience migrating applications to the cloud, preferably with AWS.
• 2+ years of experience in one of the following: JAVA, JavaScript, Spring, Automated test tools.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in at least 2 of the following: React, Angular, HTML, CSS, bootstrap, JWT, JSON, NPM, Node.
• Proficient in JAVA, JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React and Angular and its core principles
• 2+ years’ experience with Microservices/RESTful APIs
• Hands on experience with HTML/CSS/Bootstrap

• Hands on experience of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token (JWT)

• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience working with users to derive application requirements.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization is plus.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certifications
• Experience with Google Cloud

Preferred, As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain and maintain the appropriate clearance levels required and must also be able to obtain access to military installations.