Full-Time Sr. Front-End Developer

About Our Company:

Delmock Technologies, Inc. (DTI), is a leading HUBZone business in Baltimore, known for delivering sophisticated IT (Information Technology) and Health solutions with a commitment to ethics, expertise, and superior service. Actively engaged in the local community, DTI creates opportunities for talented residents while maintaining a stellar reputation as an award-winning contractor, earning accolades like the Government Choice Award for IRS (Internal Revenue Service) Systems Modernizations.

Location: This position is remote.

Role:

Delmock Technologies Inc. is seeking a Front-End Developer to help transform our federal client's organization and accelerate mission execution through emerging and disruptive technologies, innovative business models, retooled program operations and industry-driven solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Performs front end web development using modern techniques and frameworks (e.g., HTML5, CSS, CSS frameworks like LESS and SASS, Responsive Design, and those mentioned in Technical Skills).
• Creates and upgrades semantic HTML layouts using latest HTML standards.
• Consumes RESTful APIs and ensures front-end interoperability with the target Java web application server environment (e.g., Spring Framework, Spring Boot, MVC, WebFlux, Test, Oracle, SQL, MongoDB).
• JavaScript development using modern standards, including strict mode compliance, modularization techniques and tools, and frameworks and libraries (e.g., jQuery, MV* frameworks such as Backbone.js and Ember.js, D3).
• Creates web layouts from static images.
• Creates views and templates in full-stack frameworks like Rails, Express, or Django.
• Writes software that adheres to organizational web, accessibility, and multi-lingual standards.
• Considers impact to 508 compliances when pulling Epics from Product backlog to Program backlog.
• Refactors text copy into file formats commonly used for localization (i18n).
• Handles large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
• Designs, builds, and implements software applications, remediates defects, support activities to setup / validate infrastructure environments in support of Application team.
• Authors developer-friendly documentation (e.g., API documentation, deployment operations).
• Communicates technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Conducts alternative analysis on software approved within the application boundary.
• Creates and maintains code comments, Wikis, and other development artifacts in support of the application team.
• Creates and/or provides input for design artifacts for inclusion in design documents.
• Follows Test-drive development (TDD) paradigm by creating and maintaining unit tests.
• Ensures design conforms to technical solution of the platform and program.
• Operates in a DevOps environment comprised of Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, NPM.
• Quickly researches and learns new programming tools and techniques
• Assists automation test team with development of automation regression tests, as needed.
• Assists performance team with development of stubs and simulators, as needed.
• Remediates defects and provides Tier 3 level support.
• Supports packaging of software as required.
• Uses version control systems, specifically Git and GitHub
• Uses and works with open-source solutions and community,
• Coaches, trains, and mentors' other developers, both IRS and contractor, in all aspects of software development, as needed.
• Encourages and supports collaborative work amongst all team members, both IRS employees and contractor employees.
• Ensures IRS developers and/or tech advisors are engaged with all software development tasks regularly.
• Produces clear, concise, centralized, organized, and easily accessible documentation for current and future reference utilizing existing IRS tools, for example OneNote and README files. This should include system architecture diagrams, flow diagrams, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, Swagger docs, JavaDocs and other diagrams as appropriate. This documentation should be written so that future technical resources can easily assimilate and understand the referenced topic. This documentation should be consolidated and contained within a systems-level, holistic documentation suite, with a hierarchical structure that is easy to navigate and understand at both the high and detailed level. Format, location, and paradigm of this documentation to be collaboratively defined along with AD management and tech advisors.
• Utilizes effective communication skills.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 5 years of experience with these Client Development tools: Node.js, NPM, Babel, Webpack, JavaScript, React, Create React App, Jest, Testing Library, Selenium
• 5 years of experience with these standards:
• Web: CSS, HTML5
• Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 (Section 508/WCAG 2.0 AA) and WAI-ARIA
• Multi-Lingual: Accessibility Standards (a11y), Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)
• Experience with organizing information, content, and functionality of a web site so that it presents the best user experience it can, with information and services being easily usable and findable.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.

Clearance:

• Active IRS MBI (Minimum Background Investigation) Clearance.