Junior Software Developer

Program Description: As procurement technology continues to evolve, the Agency seeks to advance its procurement capabilities by maintaining robust, scalable, and up-to-date systems that enhance operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and improve overall productivity. To this end, the agency requires a strategic partner that can provide ongoing support for existing systems, integrate innovative technology solutions, and deliver comprehensive program management to oversee these efforts amidst a rapidly changing technological landscape.

Position Description: We are looking for an eager Junior Software Developer to be responsible for writing and testing code, maintaining software, and participating in code reviews.

Responsibilities:

• Develops codes, tests, and debugs new software or enhancements to existing software.
• Works with technical staff to understand problems with software and resolve them.
• Resolves customer complaints with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
• May assist in development of software user manuals.
• Responsible for desktop design, testing, security lockdown implementation, integration with standard software packages, integration with automated patching and deployment technologies, documentation, and training to include automating application and configuration deployment.

Required Skills:

• Years of Experience: 1 year of relevant technical experience.
• Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in relevant field; Additional experience can be used in lieu of degree
• Clearance Requirement: Active Top Secret
• Has good understanding of business applications as well as user, performance, quality, interface, and security requirements.
• Proficiency in the following technologies:
• React, Spring Boot, Postgres, Aha!, Project Online, InVision, Sketch, Jira, Confluence, IJ, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, PyCharm, Notepad, Swagger, SonarQube, JaCoCO, Selenium, Cucumber, JMeter, Mocha, PyTest, CHEF, Locust, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Terraform, Gitlab Runner, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, NPM, Yarn, AWS CodeBuild, AWS OpsWorks, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeDeploy, Splunk, Amazon Cloudwatch, AppDynamics, Amazon Kinesis Analytics, Power BI, Matomo, Mouseflow, Nginix, Ansible, Docker, jFrog Artifactory, and jFrog Xray

Soft Skills:

* Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.

* Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.

* Leadership: Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges. Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.

* Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.

* Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.

* Problem Solving: Natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics. Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.

* Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.