Front End Developer

The hiring client is an IT consultancy serving government and commercial clients. The Software Engineer / Technical Delivery Lead will develop and deliver applications for a federal project, lead deployment and production readiness, resolve technical issues, and coordinate implementation with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current deployment model, dependencies, configuration, interfaces, data needs, and known limitations of the current product suite
• Learn the client's development, test, and production environments, including deployment procedures, configuration boundaries, and operational constraints
• Identify gaps between the applications' current state and the conditions required to run successfully in the client environment
• Guide the transition from initial application states to production-ready implementations and to client-controlled DevOps environment and delivery pipelines
• Troubleshoot complex application and integration issues and support release-readiness activities
• Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to configure, deploy, and support AWS services required for application delivery and operation
• Contribute directly to development tasks, technical estimates, code reviews, dependency resolution, and integration activities
• Develop, maintain, and review web, API, mobile, service, and business-logic components
• Communicate technical risks, decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Skills

• Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, RxJS, and responsive web application development
• Node.js and TypeScript service development, including Express or an equivalent framework
• REST/JSON APIs, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, API validation, authentication, authorization, and integration testing
• Core AWS services, including Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL/RDS, MSK (Kafka), ElastiCache for Redis, S3, and EventBridge
• Native iOS and Android application development using Swift and Kotlin
• SQL proficiency and hands-on experience designing and optimizing relational databases
• Secure software development practices, including input validation, dependency and vulnerability management, secrets handling, secure coding review, and remediation of security findings
• Git-based DevOps practices, including source control, pull-request workflows, branching, code reviews, automated build and deployment pipelines, environment configuration across development, test, UAT, and production, and release management
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including experience with production application delivery
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or an Associate Degree with two additional years of experience
• Hands-on experience with production application deployment, environment configuration, dependency resolution, validation, and troubleshooting
• Strong ownership, prioritization, and decision-making under a short delivery timeline
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and client teams and communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies, frameworks, and tools to solve unfamiliar technical challenges and meet evolving project needs
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust determination
• Authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, mTLS, and role- or claims-based access controls
• AI-assisted development and productivity tools such as Codex, with human review and validation of generated code and related artifacts
• An existing favorable Public Trust determination

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Health insurance
• Hybrid work
• Flexible work from home options available.

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