Junior Full Stack Software Developer

Laurel, MD

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Junior Full Stack Software Developer for one of our PRIME CONTRACTS that offers exciting opportunities to support essential services and mission critical activities across the enterprise. Our mission supports the Government Corporate Management Services (CMS) by providing full life cycle support services through the sustainment, modernization, and transformation of the enterprise corporate applications. These applications are used across the government enterprise and are critical to the daily functions of thousands of users across acquisition, business, finance, HR, training, recruitment, program management, security, logistics and more. Come join our diverse and growing team with lots of opportunities!

The selected candidate will augment the existing team as a software developer providing full life cycle support to the Human Resource Applications and Services organization. A successful candidate will be comfortable working in a team environment, collaborating with other developers and having frequent interaction with customers. This position will require working in a fast-paced team and a willingness to take on challenges to creatively solve customer requirement problem sets. The role requires a self-motivated individual that will support new development work as well as sustainment activities to Human Resource applications.

Key Technologies:

• AngularJS
• PostGres
• Ansible
• Docker
• JavaScript
• Linux
• GitLab
• JIRA
• Confluence
• NiFi
• MongoDB

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and at least three (3) years of demonstrable experience is required. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.  
• An industry recognized professional certification, as defined in the TTOs, may substitute as one (1) year experience.  
• A Master's Degree in Computer Science, System Engineering or related field may substitute for two (2) years' experience.  
• Three (3) years of demonstrated experience using programming languages and source code to create software that meets government requirements. Application development involves the process, lifecycle and creation of software designed to meet government requirement. Developer may work with multiple programming languages.  
• Experience with object-oriented techniques, programming languages, and agile methodologies in the development or modernization of software applications on a variety of hosting platforms.
• Experience performing deployment, installation, maintenance, monitoring, and implementation of software at Government specified locations.
• Experience using Configuration Management (CM) tools such as Git to ensure effective control of application baselines across development test and production environments.
• Experience designing, developing, and documenting applications to include system requirements, design system interfaces, user documentation, and test documentation.
• Experience developing customer requirements and information needs into software specifications that can be implemented.
• Experience modernizing software code to add new features, correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or to improve system performance.
• Experience creating and managing automated testing frameworks to ensure the reliability and efficiency of software applications. Conduct through testing to identify bugs and issues for resolution.
• Experience interacting with project customers and stakeholders to report project status and manage requirements.
• Experience researching, evaluating, and assessing software tools and technologies such as free and open-source software (FOSS), and Government-off-the-shelf (GOTS), Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), and incorporates those findings into the overall software system design.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working directly with customers to understand requirements and troubleshoot system issues
• Experience with GitLab
• Experience with GitLab runners for continuous Integration
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience creating and consuming RESTful endpoints 
• Experience setting up and maintaining Linux environments 
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (ADA Section508 compliance)