Applications Developer

Applications Developer

• McLean, VA
• Information Technology

The Sponsor's production and development services provide high-quality interactive, mobile, video, web, and audio products that concisely convey complex topics to a variety of executive customers. The Sponsor manages its own technical cloud-based infrastructure and custom applications and services to support production efforts. The Sponsor requires support specializing in Applications Development. The Sponsor needs polished skills in communications, teamwork, and collaborative development while managing a moderate to heavy workload. 



Responsibilities

• Manage project priorities and tasks to ensure accuracy and timeliness, clarity of message, and quality control for products


• Meet Sponsor's requirements for quality, responsiveness, and accessibility. Comply with the Sponsor development standards and employ modern web and application design and development best practices.


• Update assigned project statuses in Sponsor's production tracking tool


• Design datasets and data objects suitable for use with JSON to support interactive and mobile production, web applications, and websites


• Provide development, maintenance, and upgrade support for in-house tools, cloud-based servers, cloud-based applications and services, project boilerplates, and web application packaging tools in an AWS environment


• Advise and assist the project team in the development of process documentation to support individual tasks, knowledge sharing, and development process workflows


• Use AWS CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ELB, EC2, IAM, Lambda, and Jenkins to build, host, and monitor applications


• Use Node.js, Express,js, Koa.js, NGINX, Lema, Probot, GitHub, Git, Angular, JavaScript, Vue, React, CSS, and HTML to build and maintain applications servers


• Use RDS, Oracle RDS, MySQL, and DynamoDB to support current applications. Develop and participate in software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.


• Maintain and modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve performance


• Review existing programs and assist in making refinements, reducing operating time, and improve current techniques


• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data to analyze system capabilities or requirements

Requirements

• TS/SCI FSP Clearance


• Demonstrated experience with frontend and backend application development support for applications and services used to improve producer experience


• Demonstrated experience with frontend and backend application development support for applications and services used to facilitate the production of complex visual products


• Demonstrated experience with version control software including Git and GitHub


• Demonstrated experience with presentational development including HTML5/CSS3, Hugo, or other static site generators, and SASS


• Demonstrated experience with functional development including JavaScript, Angular, Vue, React, and Node.js


• Demonstrated experience with any combination of the following: Typescript, Webpack, Lerna, or Electron


• Demonstrated experience with cloud-based infrastructure development and automation including AWS, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS S3, AWS ELB


• Demonstrated experience with any of the following (experience with all three libraries is a plus): Express.js, Koa.js, or NGINX


• Demonstrated experience with any of the following: RDS, MySQL, or DynamoDB

Desired Skills

• Demonstrated experience with cloud-based infrastructure development, auditing, and automation using DynamoDB, ECS, ElasticSearch, or Kibana


• Demonstrated experience with Jenkins or other related automation services


• Demonstrated experience with Oracle


• Demonstrated experience supporting system security documentation


• Demonstrated experience with mobile mapping capabilities and charting


• Demonstrated experience with Fastify

About Us

For more than 20 years, NewGen Technologies has solved our clients’ toughest IT challenges with integrity, security, and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror, aided the identification of criminals, and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of biometrics. Our team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance. #CJ