JavaScript Software Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Varen Technologies provides superior engineering, cyber security, specialized technology solutions and management consulting services to the federal government, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, military and US government health agencies. Since our origins in 2005, we’ve grown a lot! We bring a leadership team with decades of unparalleled experience in business services with superior technical expertise and a full range of skills. Our mantra, “Our performance is measured by the success of our clients,” is not just preached but also practiced with an unwavering passion.

Job Description

Varen Technologies is looking for a software developer who enjoys solving hard problems, delivering mission capability to the operator and analyst, working independently or on small-distributed development teams, and has the expertise to hit the ground running with little to no supervision.

 This positions support the DoD’s Big Data Platform (BDP) cloud development team by working across multiple tasks and ensuring that all front-end applications adhere to a shared vision, resulting in a consistent user experience. The developer may also work to modernize legacy codebases written in a host of frameworks, coalescing around a standard toolchain and sound front-end architecture. The position will also include writing tests, test plans, and test scripts and optimizing and troubleshooting the front-end interfaces of the BDP. Primary development languages for working with the BDP’s web services are Javascript and Java. Team members are expected to participate and collaborate with other team members as well as with end-users through agile development cycles. 


Employee will select and their laptop (MAC, IBM, DELL, etc) and work in an environment that allows you to use approved resources. (Github, ZenHub, Slack, Node, etc) No security clearance required, must be a US Citizen, and the contract can maintain or submit for clearance.


Education and years of experience: 8-12 years web dev/JavaScript experience, with at least 2 years in Node/Angular/R, Java, Spark Node or related technologies. Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional applicable software development experience on projects with similar software processes maybe substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

Daily Duties: Participate in development and implantation, use software deployment tools; code and test software based upon software specifications and designs; support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques; use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, and fault tolerant. Familiarity with: • with D3, WebGL, git and gitflow • Open source contributions, and modern frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and Backbone Desired Experience: • Node.js’s ecosystem • in-depth knowledge of web standards and page optimization • displaying/navigating streaming data (SSE, WS, CometD) • knowledge of distributed systems software design

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.