Javascript Front End Developer

AVM Consulting - Reston, VA

- Senior

Reston, VA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

We are looking for a skilled web developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in web development and a strong proficiency in JavaScript and its frameworks. You will collaborate daily with a multi-functional team, including Engineering, QA, Product, and UX Designers, to build and deliver high-quality software in an agile environment. Your role will involve writing well-tested and efficient code, debugging issues, and improving application performance. You will also coordinate workflows between designers and developers and communicate with external web services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate each day with a multi-functional team (Engineering, QA, Product, UX Designers) to build the right things and deliver small chunks of working software each Sprint
• Attend regular Scrum ceremonies to collaborate with your team on work completed and in progress
• Write well-tested, easily maintained, and efficient code that leaves systems better than you found them
• Debug in different environments to find issues and be able to fix them
• Understand and improve application performance and monitoring of performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical and performance issues in a production environment
• Coordinate the workflow between designers and web developers
• Collaborate with back-end developers to build a RESTful API
• Communicate with external web services

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of web development experience
• Proficiency with JavaScript/HTML, and experience with CSS
• Strong experience in JavaScript frameworks, such as Vue.js or React
• Ability to create self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Deep knowledge of SPA practices and commonly used modules
• Experience with Node.js and Express.js for hosting a web application
• Writing non-blocking code
• Experience in TFS and/or Git for source control
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
• Experience taking a lead role developing exceptional UI-centric software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers
• Experience working in an agile environment, with small, distributed teams
• Strong technical, communication skills, interpersonal skills, and good judgment
• Highly responsible, with good work ethics
• Organized and motivated team player