Full Stack Engineer

Coforma•North Bethesda, MD

20h•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a thoughtful, collaborative Full Stack Engineer to join our growing, distributed team at Coforma. Our Full Stack Engineers enjoy tackling complex problems while working with other members of our cross-disciplinary teams to deliver elegant products across a modern technology stack. They are skilled across the stack, building accessible applications that put people first with code that is clean, maintainable, well-documented, and well-tested. In this role, you'll work closely with researchers and designers early and often, collaborating to add perspective that increases understanding and empathy. As such, your passion for articulating technology solutions that aim to improve lives is a feature, not a bug. Join us to build software that makes an impact and implement human-centered solutions that we can be proud to say we worked on together. If you’re passionate about improving lives through digital products and services, Coforma is a great company for you. This is a US-based remote position open to applicants in select US states. Some travel may be required. To ensure we remain compliant with all state, county, and local employment and tax regulations, applicants must currently reside in one of the following states to be considered for employment with Coforma: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.

Requirements

The building blocks of the web, including how to write accessible semantic HTML and how to write clean CSS that conforms to design systems
Open-source programming languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, etc.
Frameworks, libraries, or runtimes like React, Rails, Node, Next, Drupal, Angular, Spring, etc.
Testing frameworks like Jest, Testing Library, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress, etc.
How to leverage the command line via shell scripting
APIs and databases of various types like SQL, Dynamo, Mongo, Postgres, etc.
Infrastructure tools like Terraform, Serverless, Amazon CDK, etc.
How to deliver polished, scalable, maintainable, performant code
How to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Agile and scrum development methodologies

Nice To Haves

4+ years of experience building applications with open-source programming languages
4+ years of experience working with modern frameworks, libraries, or runtimes
4+ years of experience working with APIs and databases of various types
4+ years of experience working with infrastructure tools and Infrastructure as Code
Experience developing software in a remote environment
Experience in digital services, government, or federal consulting

Responsibilities

Write and review code, ensuring high standards of quality, maintainability, and test coverage
Solve problems across the tech stack alongside other engineers on the team, building new systems and improving existing ones
Consistently apply best practices, including a focus on accessibility
Collaborate with team members and government/client stakeholders to craft creative solutions and build technology products that improve the lives of those in the communities they serve
Engage with coworkers across disciplines according to agile and scrum methodologies, including participating in planning, breaking down requirements into tasks, refinement, and estimation, etc.