JAVA UI Development Engineer Lead -

$130,000 - $130,000/Yr

Unclassified - Reston, VA

Full-time - Senior

Reston, VA

About the position

The Lead Software Engineer will play a crucial role in the UI Engineering capability within the Web Technology group, focusing on writing and maintaining user interface code for production applications. This position requires a senior developer with extensive knowledge of web development practices and the ability to integrate with large-scale back-end systems, delivering front-end components for complex web environments.

Responsibilities

• Builds, tests, deploys and maintains production UI code for complex web-based applications using JavaScript, CSS, X/HTML and other programming and scripting languages.
• Conducts performance reviews for UI Engineers and assists in project planning and estimating.
• Gathers feedback from design and technical staff on website development needs.
• Contributes to the engineering team’s culture of high code quality.
• Works with Interface Design Architects to ensure accessibility standards are met at a code level.
• Reports hours daily to administration for billing purposes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 5 years of directly-related work experience in a professional position in web development or a related field.
• Expert-level understanding of the JavaScript programming language, related optimization techniques, and design patterns.
• Expertise in data exchange methods using XML and JSON in JavaScript.
• Expertise in working with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery.
• Experience working in an iterative development environment.

Nice-to-haves

• PHP experience, specifically as it relates to the Drupal and WordPress web publishing platforms.
• Strong customer service orientation, with an ability to clearly discern client needs.

Benefits

• Great Pay up to $130K
• Opportunity for occasional travel