Enterprise - Senior Software Engineer - React, GitLab, Kubernetes

Erias Ventures • Annapolis Junction, MD

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Erias Ventures is seeking a Software Engineer 2 to join a small and exciting development team. This role involves developing, maintaining, and optimizing user interfaces using Node, ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. The engineer will collaborate within an Agile organization to create user-friendly web applications, translating designs into functional, responsive, and scalable interfaces. Responsibilities include capturing requirements from customers and leadership, recommending enhancements, and ensuring UI design consistency. The role utilizes UI libraries and frameworks for reusability, involves testing across approved browsers, and requires debugging and troubleshooting UI issues. Staying current with industry trends and participating in code reviews are essential. The goal is to optimize performance and improve the overall user experience, contributing to the team's success and driving the customer's organization forward.

Requirements

• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required; or four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience designing and implementing high-performance web-based graph visualization interfaces capable of rendering and interacting with large-scale datasets (thousands of nodes and edges) while maintaining responsiveness and usability.
• Strong UI development skills using ReactJS and experience with automated javascript test frameworks (eslint and jest).
• Experience gathering user needs, requirements, and feedback; creating wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user stories; and translating them into clean, reusable, and scalable frontend code.
• Node.js & Express.js: Strong experience developing and maintaining scalable server-side applications and microservices using the Node.js runtime and the Express.js framework.
• RESTful APIs: Proven ability to design, implement, and consume well-structured, secure, and documented RESTful APIs.
• GitLab: Proficiency with the GitLab platform for version control, CI/CD pipelines, and project management.
• Knowledge of Section 508/WCAG accessibility standards and implementation.
• Javascript frameworks (React), REST, containers (docker) and orchestration such as Kubernetes (CK8S and Helm).
• Proven ability to work independently on a small team, taking ownership of tasks, managing development timelines, and proactively solving problems with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to: Function within a Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
• Articulate complex technical concepts clearly and confidently to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Engage effectively with senior leadership, mission stakeholders, and end users to gather requirements and provide tailored updates.
• Deliver compelling, high-impact product demonstrations to application users and leadership.
• Author accurate and concise project updates.

Nice To Haves

• Scrum Lead experience and certification.
• Familiarity with the following Node and ReactJS packages: babel, nwsapi, winston, graphology, ag grid, and sigma.

Responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining, and optimizing user interfaces using Node, ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Collaborating with team members in an Agile organization to create and maintain user-friendly web applications.
• Translating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes into functional, responsive, and scalable user interfaces.
• Collaborating with mission customers and government leadership to capture requirements.
• Recommending product enhancements to improve application functionality.
• Ensuring UI design is consistent with established design principles.
• Utilizing UI libraries, frameworks, and components to streamline the development process and enhance reusability.
• Performing testing with the organization’s approved browsers to ensure a seamless user experience.
• Debugging and troubleshooting UI issues.
• Actively seeking opportunities to improve the user interface.
• Staying current with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in UI development.
• Participating in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback.
• Continuously seeking opportunities to optimize performance and improve the overall user experience.
• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Confer with analysts, system engineers and software engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, confer with users or system engineers analyze systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigate problem areas.
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards including adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints.
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Debug existing software and correct defects.
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Write or review software and system documentation.
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
• Perform quality control on team products.
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.

Benefits

• Above Market Hourly Pay
• 11% Roth or Traditional 401k with Immediate Vesting and Deposit
• Spot Bonuses for Assisting with Business Development and Company Growth
• Professional Development Bonuses for Certificates and Degrees
• Company subsidized Medical Coverage
• 100% Company Paid Vision and Dental Coverage
• 100% Company Paid Long Term Disability , Short Term Disability , and Group Life Insurance
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off with Flexible Work Schedules and Birthday Off
• Amazon Prime Membership and Monthly Internet Reimbursement
• Technology and Productivity Allowance for Equipment and Supplies
• Morale Building and Company Events to Celebrate our Successes and Build our Community
• Onboarding and Annual Swag
• Company Paid Professional Development and Training

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level