Sr. Frontend Developer

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Kentro is hiring for Sr. Frontend Developer to support development of the VIT database and APIs, while expanding the functionality to provide greater adjudicative support through providing information necessary to complete steps four and five of the SSA sequential evaluation process.

Responsibilities:

• Participate as needed in all phases of software development with emphasis on the planning, analysis, development, testing, integration, documentation and presentation phases.
• Apply principles, methods, and knowledge of specific functional areas of expertise to specific Work Order requirements, and make recommendations and advise on organization-wide system improvements, optimization, or maintenance efforts.
• Work closely with the Project Manager/Chief Architect on activities such as technical proposal support, defect management, software development/modification/enhancement, system integration, and maintenance/process improvement activities.
• Support risk/opportunity management, causal analysis, and lessons learned activities.
• Ensure that code quality continuously improves through strict adherence to such practices as continuous integration, automated testing, pair work (e.g., peer code review, pair programming), static code analysis, and refactoring. Code is evaluated by the ability to satisfy user stories; simplicity, modularity, and flexibility in the code; and by test coverage. All newly developed features, bug fixes, and refactoring’s should be verified by automated tests.

Location: Onsite in Woodlawn, MD

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $120,000-140,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of experience.
• Experience with PostGreSql, NodeJs, Express, Azure, Java, PL/SQL, MDE, and Chai/Mocha testing libraries
• Agile Validation and Requirements Analysts familiar with SSA agile methodologies and Digital.ai tools.
• Front-end development skills: Angular 8.0+, HTML/JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), YUI and/or JQuery.
• Server-side component design skills: Object-Oriented Design with Java EE 6 and up, Spring/SpringBoot, Jax-WS and JAX-RS Webservice development, Apache OpenJPA or similar, EJB 3.0, common frameworks such as Maven, JUnit, Log4J, Mockito.
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle), SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Spring JDBC).
• Solid experience with automated unit testing, TDD, BDD, and associated technologies (Junit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, Karma/Jasmine, TSLint).
• Usability and Section 508 principles.
• WebSphere deployment.
• Git, BitBucket, Jenkins automation.
• Must demonstrate the experience and ability to work without technical oversight and to lead and/or supervise a team of specialists.
• Must possess superior oral and written communication skills in order to clearly and effectively convey issues and ideas to team members, management and customers.

Preferred:

• Agile development principles and methodology
• Test Driven Development
• Behavior Driven Development
• OpenShift
• Knowledge of SSA system architecture

Clearance:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance
• Must meet updated ID requirements: https://www.gsa.gov/technology/it-contract-vehicles-and-purchasing-programs/federal-credentialing-services/get-appoin