Job Description

LightFeather is currently seeking talented Applications Developers who are well versed in Cloud, DevOps, Security and Agile. This is a long-term project. Successful candidates must thrive in a people-based corporate culture.

US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Devising and modifying applications programs and procedures from detailed specifications to solve complex problems. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains those programs. Ability to deliver competent O&M and system enhancement support by executing all phases of applications programming activities

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Math, Engineering, or IT-related field preferred or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years overall IT experience with 5+ years of experience directly in the Software Development, Software Engineering field.
• Experience working on an Agile Development team, using CI/CD in the cloud (preferably AWS).
• Ability to work as a team player.
• Brings a positive attitude and energy.
• Detailed documentation skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications.
• Strong customer service/client facing skills

TECHNICAL TOOLSETS AND EXPERTISE:

• Nodejs, JavaScript, Electron
• React/SPA
• AWS serverless framework (API Gateway, ALB, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Kinesis, S3, DMS)
• Oracle DB experience
• Java; SQL – Oracle, PostgreSQL; JSP
• App Servers – Tomcat, WildFly, WebSphere
• Frameworks –Spring, Spring Boot, Struts
• ORM – JPA, Hibernate, MyBatis
• MQ/JMS – IBM MQ Series, ActiveMQ
• REST concepts; JWT
• Testing: JUnit, Selenium, JMeter
• Angular (for legacy apps that are being transitioned to React)
• DevOps:
• Jenkins/Cloudbees – Groovy Jenkinsfile development
• Ansible – Playbook development, Tower management
• Hashicorp Terraform and Hashicorp Vault
• Certificate management; Jira issue management; Git source code management 
• Other beneficial technologies:
  • Encryption
  • Authentication mechanisms: OAuth, SAML, AWS Cognito, Kerberos
  • Linux systems management
  • Bash scripting
  • AWS CLI

ABOUT US:

LightFeather.io, LLC is a newly formed WOSB and SDVOSB. Our company motto is "Always Ideating, Always Iterating, and Always Innovating." We are a fun, forward leaning, edgy startup that is ready to change the world and improve the federal government, one organization at a time. We truly believe in empowering our people to be leaders and contributors. We have been putting people first since day one. We offer variety, fulfillment, challenge, depth and balance. Be ready to flex your skills across the industry to do great things and make a powerful value-driven impact. We attract the best in the business. People from enterprises, consultancies, agencies, and startups—all drawn to building a career that’s both exciting and sustainable.

LightFeather’s services cover a wide range of business and technology capabilities. The breadth in capabilities assures that LightFeather can support organizations with an enterprise and forward-thinking vision. We collaboratively design, build, and implement business strategies and solutions to help solve complex client problems to drive business value. Specifically, we partner with customers to provide Management Consulting, Cyber Security, User Experience, Cloud Based (Infrastructure, Foundation, DevOps, Custom Development, Data, Analytics, and Security) Solutions. For example, AWS, and various/many open source technologies.