Overview
Remote
Up to $120,000
Full Time
10% Travel
Unable to Provide Sponsorship
Skills
Backend Development
JIRA
GitHub
Job Details
Department of Veteran Affairs is currently hiring a Backend Developer to manage a sustainment and enhancement project. This position will be full-time and fully remote within the United States.
Responsibilities
- Manages backend development for legacy modernization, sustainment, and enhancement for VA.gov.
- Assists with development planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards.
- Prepares operating instructions, compiles documentation of program development, and analyzes system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
- Work alongside a team of front end and back-end developers in a multi-project environment.
- Maintain high standards of excellence within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
- Work to diagnose and correct data discrepancies to ensure accuracy.
- Work to add new features and maintain integrity of existing features within assigned VA.gov tools.
- Assist in the collection and documentation of user s requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
- Assist BA team in preparing reports, manuals, operational procedures and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of the project.
- Integrate with all necessary applications, working alongside those system development team.
- Proactively communicate and coordinate with various internal and external project stakeholders.
- Analyzes detailed system factors, including input and output requirements, information flow, hardware and software requirements, and alternative methods of problem resolution.
- Participates in code reviews and Sprint Reviews to represent reviewed work for adherence to contract deliverables and program specifications.
Qualifications
- Bachelor s with 5+ years (or commensurate experience)
- Experience with Tech Stack Development
- Experience working with databases
- Experience working with GitHub Analytical and investigation skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance and supervision.
- Experience with Agile Methodology and Scrum Processes.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle.
- Demonstrated experience in a remote work environment.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Experience with VA and/or other Federal Agencies.
- Understanding of the VA Veteran-Focused Integration Process (VIP) project management methodology.
- Knowledge and experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Experience working within the VA.gov platform, alongside OCTO
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