Mid-level Full Stack Software Developer

About the Mission

You Will Join: The team supporting the EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) Fuels IT systems is seeking a full-stack developer to support exciting technical transformation and modernization efforts currently underway.

Responsibilities

• Participate in an agile team, including all agile ceremonies, contributing in all aspects of the development lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of software solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain code that meets requirements, is high quality, and performs efficiently and effectively to provide a great customer experience.
• Incorporate standards and best practices, including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Update and maintain system design documents.
• Review and provide feedback on functional and technical requirements.
• Contributing to improvements in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) utilizing practices such as test-driven development (TDD), static code analysis, code reviews, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated security scanning.
• Working closely with technical architects to ensure system design follows the industry best practices and standards that align with federal security requirements
• Provide operational support expertise, including the following:
• Debugging software to investigate production issues, including performing systematic assessments for identifying root causes of faults or problems.
• Understanding production environments including security hardening, performance tuning, and access control.
• Reproducing failures in development environments.
• Recommending coding solutions for other developers to implement.

Qualifications

• Expertise in core Java
• Experience with RESTful web services. SQL and data modeling experience, including experience working with ORM tools/frameworks such as Hibernate (including a working knowledge of JPA).
• Experience developing applications and working collaboratively in an agile environment
• Outstanding communication, organization, time management, and interpersonal skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills coupled with strong listening skills
• Experience with Git or other distributed source control system
• Working knowledge and experience in Federal IT security guidelines and practices and Section 508/ Accessibility
• Working knowledge and experience in cloud-based environments (AWS/Azure)
• Ability to contribute on an individual basis as well as demonstrate your strengths as an agile team member
• Experience communicating and collaborating with other software developers, business owners, and management
• Basic Qualifiers: Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree
• Can Additional Years of Experience Substitute for Degree? Yes
• Required Certification(s): None
• Minimum Years of Overall Experience: 6
• Minimum Years of Specific Experience in Field: 6
• Minimum Clearance to Start: Public Trust
• Work Status Allowable: US Citizen
• Preferred Experience: Single Page Application Frameworks (SPA) VueJS/Angular/ReactJS
• Experience with modern microservice (API) architectures
• KnockoutJS
• Docker (or other container technologies)
• Experience building Cloud Native Applications and an understanding of secure cloud architectures, including Hands-on experience with AWS managed services, particularly RDS, ECS, and Fargate for running containerized workloads
• Exposure to unified/consolidated data environments and integration patterns (warehousing, ETL/ELT), including Python for data wrangling and pipelines
• DevOps/DevSecOps (CI/CD, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub/GitHub Actions/GitHub Copilot, Maven, automation scripting)
• Experience with NoSQL database technologies (MongoDB, DynamoDB)