TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, an innovative IT professional services firm located just outside the Washington DC beltway, is looking for a Senior Backend Developer with a high degree of versatility, integrity, and technical ability to join our agile software development team.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop with leading-edge application, web/mobile, and big data frameworks while working on an innovative, early-stage project. The ideal candidate is able to design and develop solutions based on requirements, collaborate with the product owner, work independently as part of a small team, meet deadlines, provide technical leadership, present completed work to stakeholders, contribute to team podcasts, and support company philanthropic initiatives. If you're looking for a role on an interesting project and team, this might be for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable web applications with rich and modern user
experiences using React, Node, and Postgres
• Work with engineering team to investigate design approaches as well as
evaluate new technology and technical feasibility
• Develop UI/UX for high usability
• Engineer APIs and database objects for high performance
• Collaborate with engineering team to forecast functionality that will be
developed during each sprint
• Write high-quality and reusable production code
• Create prototypes, mockups, and staging sites for review and feedback
• Optimize applications to ensure high performance
• Implement comprehensive security and data protection
• Implement unit and integration tests to cover code
• Self-start, maintain focus on sprint assignments, and ask for additional work if
completing sprint assignments early
• Proactively identify and lead implementation of opportunities to improve
solution under development
• This role is focused on the backend but Full Stack developers will be
considered

Qualifications

• 3 years of professional production experience with React and Node.js
(preferred), Angular, Express, Vue, or similar frameworks
• 5 years of professional production development experience with Postgres
(preferred) or MySQL
• 10 years of professional experience designing and developing web applications
• Experience with production workloads on AWS
• Experience with RESTful Services and APIs
• Portfolio or samples of past work and projects
• Experience working on a cross-functional Scrum team
• Strong understanding of development best practices (e.g., coding
standards/reviews, testing operations)
• Experience using version control systems such as Git
• Experience using issue tracking tools such as JIRA
• Self-starter

Location: Our convenient Rockville, MD headquarters and remote work

Clearance Requirements: Candidates that are clearable to a Department of Defense secret-level clearance are highly preferred

TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, a CMMI Maturity Level 3 company, focuses on delivering information technology and professional services to Federal and State agencies. TISTA is recognized in 2019 by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the US. TISTA is also a recipient of 2019 Top Veteran-Owned Companies by the Washington Business Journal. TISTA also received a 2018 Moxie Award in the GovCon category.

Here at TISTA Science and Technology we value our Veterans and encourage all to apply!

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Employment Transparency:
TISTA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of TISTA to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. TISTA will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.