Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineer
Location: Bethesda, MD (remote)
Type: Contract

Our direct client is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer who will develop features and improvements to products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
Key Accountabilities:

• Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features.
• Write code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Learn, collaborate, and teach other Software Engineers.
• Identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your group and outside your group (e.g. component library) and help contribute to make it better.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills:

• Technical / science Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required.
• 4+ years of work-related experience.
• Professional experience with React and Node.js is required, along with strong proficiency in Next.js for frontend development and Nest.js for backend services.
• Experience with web application development.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD.
• Understanding of DevOps processes and appreciation for the value technologies like Serverless and Kubernetes bring to the software deployment and development process.
• A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts.
• A solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
• A solid understanding of relational data and / or non-relational models.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Experience with the Spring Framework may be needed to support and enhance existing Java-based services and integrations.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to regularly achieve consensus with peers and provide clear status updates.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with great organizational skills.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Ability to thrive in a geographically distributed organization.
• Tech startup experience.
• Enterprise software company experience.
• Product company experience.
• Experience working with a remote team.
• Developer platform / tool industry experience.
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team.

is an award-winning IT Consulting and Recruiting firm based in the Philadelphia area. We've built personal relationships with our clients over many years and work directly with decision makers on all open positions. Our core values are focused on the highest level of professional dedication to our client's requirements coupled with our desire to partner with highly qualified talent for joint success.


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