Junior Software Back End Developer - Remote

Our People & Places Solutions business – reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do – the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology – we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.

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Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we’re transforming intangible ideas into innovative solutions, designing the future-today.  As a Software Back End Developer in our Solutions and Technology organization, you will be using your creative genius to help solve our client’s shared challenges through technology-enabled solutions.  You will work with global industry leaders and solution architects within Jacobs, alongside our global clients, to conceptualize, create, and build market-leading software to boldly change industries!

 

Daily life will consist of working on a globally remote team, which includes engineers, project managers, along with other developers. Expect a flexible schedule, a wide breadth of technical work, virtual scrums for daily collaboration, and continual challenges!

 

Are you interested yet?  Here’s what we’re looking for you to bring to the table:

 

• Passion – must get excited about solving global challenges through new technologies!  Whether the challenge might come from infrastructure, water, advanced facility, environmental, health, or even cross-market projects, you thrive knowing you contributed to a global solution!  You also get excited with learning and evaluating emerging technologies!
• Creativity – must have experience being presented with challenges, proposing innovative designs, and then turning those ideas into working software, delivering positive impact to an organization.
• Critical Thinking – must be able to solve problems.  Whether challenging and refining an accepted business process, evaluating a technical upgrade, or tracing through a logical code issue, you should have great analytical and evaluation skills.
• Teaming – must know how to excel in a highly collaborative environment, while also thriving in a remote workspace.  You should be excited to dialogue in diverse groups regarding business needs/requirements, collaborate in coding sessions, and further refine new ideas solo.

 

Great, so you share our passions, are a creative critical thinker, who is a team player, please read on!  Here are the technical skills we will expect you to have to help reinvent tomorrow with us here at Jacobs!

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Proficiency in web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
• Familiarity using Node.js and npm to manage JavaScript packages during application development
• Familiarity with integrating a database (either SQL or NoSQL) as part of an application
• Familiarity using REST APIs
• Familiarity with some of these tools: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, WebStorm, Azure Data Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, MongoDB Compass
• Experience with Agile methodologies, source control systems (i.e., GIT), and DevOps CI/CD

 

And if you have any of the following additional technical skills, even better:

• Experience with a JavaScript frontend framework (ReactJS, AngularJS, Vue.js, Backbone.js, etc.)
• Familiarity using a JavaScript UI framework (Material-UI, Bootstrap, etc.)
• Familiarity developing REST APIs (C#, Python, etc.)
• Familiarity with both relational (SQL, e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgresSQL, etc.) and NoSQL, e.g., Cosmos DB, MongoDB) database design (and how to integrate into an application
• Familiarity with Azure/AWS and serverless backends

 

So, you have these technical skills too?  Well, if you enjoy collaborating with like-minding folks, apply!  We want to talk with you about what you could do for our clients, and what your career could be with us here at Jacobs!

 

Typical salary range for this position is $76,800 to $134,400, and is commensurate with experience relative to the position.

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As a federal contractor of the U.S. government, Jacobs is subject to the Executive Order requiring companies who support U.S. government contracts to ensure their covered employees are fully COVID-19 vaccinated or approved for a legally-entitled medical or religious accommodation. 

Full vaccination is NOT required at this time for positions that are not covered by the federal contractor Executive Order, that do not require performance of work in a Jacobs office, and that do not have full vaccination as a client requirement where work is performed at a client site.

At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $13 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.