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Job Summary:
Job Title: Lead Full-Stack developer
Location: Bethesda, MD
Duration: Full Time/Permanent
Job Description:
- JavaScript and React:
- Front-End Focus: Strong experience with JavaScript, particularly using React, is essential. The role involves a lot of front-end work, and they won't compromise on experience with React and micro front-end architecture.
- Redux: Familiarity with Redux for state management is also important.
- Performance and Responsiveness:
- Core Web Vitals: The team is highly focused on performance and responsiveness, constantly measuring and refactoring to improve user experience. Understanding and optimizing Core Web Vitals is crucial.
- Caching: Knowledge of caching mechanisms, specifically using Redis, to enhance performance.
- Accessibility:
- WCAG and ARIA: Experience with web accessibility standards (WCAG) and ARIA is vital. The first project involves making accessibility a core development activity, ensuring the site is usable for blind users, those with poor vision, and users who rely on keyboard navigation.
- Evinced: Familiarity with tools like Evinced for accessibility telemetry at various testing levels (unit, integration, system).
- Educational Background: Preference for candidates with a Computer Science (CS) background. Exceptional engineers from other backgrounds will also be considered.
- Job Consistency: Consistent job history is important. Ideally, candidates should have 2-3 years at each position, with longer tenures (4-5 years) being preferred.
- Job Hopping: Frequent job changes (1-1.5 years) need to be explained (e.g., contract roles, funding cuts, etc.).
Job Description:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, backend engineers, test automation engineers, UX designers, and Scrum Masters to continuously enhance customer experience.
- Develop and maintain modular frontend web and mobile applications, ensuring high performance, maintainability, and testability.
- Lead the development and updating of shared component libraries to enable rapid iteration and consistent development practices.
- Mentor and coach senior, mid-level, and junior developers, fostering a sense of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Cultivate a positive team atmosphere that encourages open communication, creative problem-solving, and innovative thinking.
- Translate functional requirements into responsive components and pages with a mobile-first mentality, championing accessibility best practices.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of applications.
- Lead code reviews and automated testing efforts, ensuring code quality and meeting coverage targets.
- Lead the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments.
- Identify and negotiate technical debt with product owners for inclusion in sprints, balancing short-term needs with long-term goals.
- Participate in an on-call rotation with the entire digital and engineering organizations, including Directors and members of the Product team.
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