What are the responsibilities and job description for the UI Developer (Angular) position at CACI?
General Description:
CACI is currently looking for a UI Developer with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Northern Virginia! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.
ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial. You should have worked with or have a strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints.
What You’ll Get to Do:
Serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing UI development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. Responsible for activities associated with software projects by working in close collaboration with business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes. Responsibilities include:
- Designing, developing, and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
- Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success
- Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
- Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
- Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
- Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
- Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
- Providing mentoring to junior members of the team
You have:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:
- 3 year check for felony convictions
- 1 year check for illegal drug use
- 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
- College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of degree
- Professional Experience: at least seven (7) years related technical experience, with software design, development, and implementation targeting web browsers and mobile devices.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Demonstrable professional experience with our UI development tech stack: Angular, Typescript, CSS, styling & theming using Angular Material, nginx.
- In-depth knowledge of the Angular Framework (TypeScript, Angular Material, state management), as well as experience implementing UI screens from prototypes, wireframes, and/or mock-ups.
- Expert experience in the following programming languages/libraries: Angular, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
- Knowledge of creating Angular components, services, and routing; good understanding of state management (NGXS and/or NGRX) and UI performance considerations such as, but not limited to, reducing file sizes, bundling assets, and asynchronous data loading.
- Demonstrable experience creating reusable libraries and components, developing interactive and responsive interfaces, implementing complex solutions, encouraging quality code through conducting reviews/leading tests.
- Experience implementing new features by transforming mockups into fully functional user interfaces integrated with API enabled microservice built on Spring Boot based backend.
- Demonstrated professional experience with developing SPA (Single Page Application) using Angular and Angular Material, backed by RESTful services.
- Ability to bridge the gap between user interface design and technical implementation.
- Passionate for user experience and user-centric development.
- Continuously research new and best design and coding practices.
- Strong communication skills that include leading design-related conversations, ability to build and nurture good relationships and foster an environment for collaboration
- Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
- Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Mobile/responsive application UI design and implementation experience a plus (as native apps or PWA).
- Experience with RESTful service creation using Java Spring boot a plus.
- Experience with SQL or PL/SQL Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL Server databases a plus.
- Understanding of system architecture concepts and experience with system design (defining service building blocks, data flow, caching strategies for UI assets, building systems with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind).
- DevOps experience/CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience deploying applications to Amazon AWS cloud or similar cloud vendor.
What We Can Offer You:
- We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation’s highest priorities.
- For over 60 years, the principles of CACI’s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
Salary : $82,100 - $172,400
