Senior Software Developer

We are seeking a full-stack senior software developer who writes clear and concise code to deliver novel experiences for high-profile clients. We're creating non-trivial systems that make our world a better place, and we’re looking for skilled and experienced software developers to create elegant systems to solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges.  Our ideal candidate is ready to collaborate with a team of UI/UX Designers, Data Scientists, and Data Engineers, is eager to build intuitive and stunning web-based visualizations, robust, scalable, and fast APIs, and shares our passion for functional design.  

You are more than just a programmer, continually striving to be a complete software engineer, and you know the distinction. You are well versed in different variants of the full software development life-cycle, will know fundamental algorithms and design patterns, and be fluent in multiple programming languages and paradigms.  

At RS21, we work in a values-based, collaborative, agile environment across various disciplines from healthcare, criminal justice, federal, and state government, and every high-quality product we create typically involves groundbreaking techniques and innovative solutions to create real change. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing beautiful, readable code).
• Make key decisions on tech stack, and system design
• Support junior developers in day-to-day activities
• Work closely with frontend developers and build functional, complete, and well-performing technical solutions, with an emphasis of personal responsibility on the APIs and server-side processes.
• Support project planning, estimation, business development and proposal processes 

 QUALIFICATIONS 

• Strong server-side development and coding experience with a familiarity in client side, data visualization and interactive design 
• Experienced with various issues in requirements specification, software design, configuration management, software testing fundamentals, and maintenance 
• Capable of steering a team of developers towards a common technical vision 
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with clients and distributed teammates and to work within a team
• 5+ years direct experience with web application development
• Demonstrated ability to design and develop scalable and efficient web applications using the PHP Laravel framework + Blade templating engine
• Skilled in at least one of the following front-end application frameworks: Vue, React, Angular
• Fluent in two or more Object Oriented languages such as: Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Swift
• Experience building and deploying applications on cloud infrastructure
• DevOps, including continuous integration, testing, and deployment
• Experience designing and implementing SQL databases
• Significant group development experience
• Experience with version control systems (Git is preferable)
• Experience writing and implementing Unit and Integration tests
• Due to the requirements of our contracts, you must be U.S. Citizen to be considered for this position. 

 NICE TO HAVE 

• Continuous Integration Pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions 
• Experience using NoSQL databases in production systems
• Data visualization experience
• Mobile App Development
• Any experience with Augmented or Virtual Reality
• An interest in AI, Machine Learning, Tensorflow, and big data
• D3.js, Node.js, WebGL, Three.js, Leaflet.js, Mapbox, Turf.js, npm, babel, and webpack
• Familiarity with Graph Databases such as Neo4j 
• Familiarity or Experience with Agile/SCRUM
• Experience with Atlassian Products, such as JIRA, and, Confluence, and use of GitHub for source code management
• Digital Cartography