Software Engineer Iii

Job Title: Software Engineer III

Job Location: Alexandria, VA

Job Duration: Contract to hire

Role: **
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• Effectively works in teams to design and produce high quality code.
• Continuously improves and advances the applications used for testing/assessments, education, training, and industrial/organizational psychology research.
• Analyzes and understands user needs or client requests and contributes to requirements in the form of user stories.
• Delivers on client projects the technical aspects such as data transformation, integrations through APIs, and custom applications.
• When an initiative or project requires, leads a small team in the delivery of new features or application enhancements.
• Ensures code and development practices adhere to security requirements.
• Provides technical leadership with proven modern Software Engineering practices and DevOps by recommending improvements in architecture, engineering best practices, and code conventions.
• Mentors less experienced engineers in building maintainable and reliable software.
• Troubleshoots issues and effectively communicates updates and resolution plans.

Basic Requirements and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software development of enterprise type systems.
• Experience with building web-based applications (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with modern web frameworks (e.g., ASP.NET, Angular, React, Vue).
• Passion for building software that is modular, appropriately coupled, and has good separation of concerns. And you care about quality and the user experience.
• Knowledge and experience in working with Agile/lean frameworks.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or similar or equivalent IT work experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in object-oriented programming languages such as C#, preferably with experience with both .NET Framework and Core.
• Sound knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with Entity Framework preferred.
• Experience with NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD process and tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Git) including unit testing, preferably TDD approach.
• Experience with cloud service, such as AWS, is a plus.