TypeScript/JavaScript Developer

$72,600 - $127,000/Yr

Johns Hopkins - Baltimore, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Baltimore, MD

Educational Services

About the position

In this role, you will contribute to meaningful projects that improve residents' lives while collaborating with a passionate team committed to excellence and innovation. Your primary focus is to support, evolve, and improve current web products that help local governments easily access data for informed decision-making. You will also be part of new project developments across the whole team product portfolio, playing a vital role in developing captivating and innovative user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy TS/JS software solutions.
• Collaborate closely with GovEx colleagues to continuously evolve web products, enhancing accessibility, functionality, and design to meet the needs of local governments.
• Lead the development of new features from concept to deployment, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Work alongside other software engineers and cross-functional teams, including Johns Hopkins University IT, to integrate solutions seamlessly with existing cloud and enterprise services.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Three to Five years of experience in HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Proficiency in best practices to support highly accessible, multilingual, and performant websites, including HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript 6, WCAG 2, and W3C i18n.
• 2 years experience with React/NextJS or similar relevant progressive web application frameworks.
• Experience working with GraphQL.
• Understanding of mobile-first design principles and implementation.
• Familiarity with CSS preprocessors, bundlers, and associated languages, syntaxes, and libraries (e.g., Sass, Less, and webpack).
• Proficiency with git, git flow, and GitHub.
• Proficiency in utilizing task management systems, such as Asana, to organize and track project tasks, milestones, and deadlines effectively.
• Willingness to learn new technologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with Figma.
• Experience with Headless CMS tools like Strapi.
• Knowledge of data visualization libraries and tools, such as d3, plotly, leaflet, mapbox, and datawrapper.
• Experience with relevant back-end programming languages, and languages used for data analytics (e.g., Python or R).

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible scheduling options