Senior Front End Software Engineer - ReactJS

Job Description

As a Senior Front-End Engineer you will contribute to the administrative web applications that control our inmate tablets, video visitation stations, phones, and kiosks. The front-end is mostly ReactJS while the backend is a set of JSON API's powered by Ruby-on-Rails and Elasticsearch. We're excited to evolve this stack by introducing GraphQL and technologies like Apollo.

You're a great fit for our engineering team if you are a leader, self-managed, motivated, passionate about what we do and how you can contribute to it, and constantly on the look-out for better ways to do things. Come join us and turn your talent into technology that changes lives.

This position can be a remote-based opportunity, however, there is a strong preference for the position to be based at one of the following offices: Falls Church, VA, Dallas, TX, Altoona, PA, or San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Intimate understanding and command of our application architectures, data persistence patterns, build pipelines, and business rules.
• Participate in backlog grooming, story-mapping, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospectives for the ad hoc teams assembled around said epics.
• Refine, estimate, and decompose user stories into technical implementation tasks in close collaboration with your peers.
• Create quality documentation, including flowcharts, diagrams, and written documentation describing features and functionality.
• Ensure that coded features and functionality meet requirements, including those related to system performance, response, redundancy, security, metrics, and tracking.
• Maintain excellent test coverage for every piece of code you write.
• Participate in Crucible code reviews by offering insightful feedback and direction to your peers.
• Serve as an escalation target for production issues.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; 4 years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a lead web application developer with mastery of the common protocols, paradigms, patterns, and expertise in the following technologies
• React, Backbone, HTML5, CSS/LESS/SASS (Bonus points for Angular experience)
• Experience with compiled JavaScript (Webpack, Babel, plugins, etc.)
• GraphQL, Apollo Client & Server or similar a plus.
• HTTP JSON API's (Bonus points for Ruby on Rails experience)
• Crucible, or similar code review and collaboration system.
• Git, Gitlab is a plus.
• JIRA, or similar ticketing system.
• Experience in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Experience deploying and maintaining production applications.

RCM Technologies is a leading provider of IT Business Solutions and Engineering Services to over 1,000 clients in the commercial and government sectors. RCM partners with clients to define implement and manage a broad range of technologies across multiple platforms, systems, and networks. Our broad geographic presence ensures that a proven and reliable tactical and strategic capability is available and deployable virtually everywhere in North America.