Sr. Software Engineer (Front End)

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy – part technologists, part change agents, and all heart.  We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

As a Senior Front-End Software Engineer, you will design and develop user-focused web applications using JavaScript, NodeJS, and frameworks like React or Angular. You’ll ensure scalable, high-performance solutions, troubleshooting across the full stack, including databases, build processes, and pipelines.

Working in an Agile, test-driven (TDD/BDD), and CI/CD environment, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software. You’ll also drive improvements in performance, automation, and accessibility while ensuring solutions align with user needs and business goals.

Strong problem-solving skills, experience with RESTful APIs, Git, and front-end testing frameworks, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts are key to success in this role. If these skills align with your strengths and career goals, we encourage you to apply! We are committed to continuous employee growth and upskilling, equipping our team with versatile, high-impact skills that drive success across multiple engagements throughout their careers with us.

What you will do:

• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution
• Engineer and deliver solutions using industry standards and best practices, for example: 
  • Knowledge of front-end languages and libraries (Javascript, NodeJS, React or Angular)
  • Ability to engineer and troubleshoot the entire technical solution, including databases, build processes, pipelines, etc.
  • Ready to fully engage in the product life cycle starting with user research all the way to unit testing and system documentation.
• Actively participate in pair programming/development of software components by following Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) best practices
• Lead software delivery by applying standards and working with cross-functional teams and technology stacks
• Work in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery environment
• Support the full development life cycle starting with requirements gathering all the way to documentation and delivery.
• Learn and adopt new tools and techniques to increase performance, automation, and scalability.
• Collaborate as part of larger delivery teams which may include product managers, architects, developers, and technical writers

What you will bring:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance
• A bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, or commensurate work experience and certifications
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a software engineer in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with delivery team colleagues to build the right solutions for the right people at the right time.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical issues for a wide range of audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively identify and communicate risks and mitigations to team members.
• Excellent understanding and practical experience in: 
  • JavaScript & NodeJS
  • React or Angular
  • Front-end testing frameworks and libraries, including accessibility testing
  • RESTful APIs
  • Managing work and user stories in Jira
  • Using Git-based code management
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment

Why Pluribus May Be a Fit for You

We are purpose driven. We support missions and products that serve the public good, and where our focused capabilities positively impact those mission outcomes. We bring a consultative approach to partner with our government customers and help them succeed as change makers.

Pluribus is a calm company. We are knowledge workers. People do their best work when they are not rushed by artificial urgency or drained by a culture of facetime and workaholism. By having confidence in our people, we can get more done at better quality. When real crunch time comes, we are not already stretched to the limit.

We are stronger because of the variety of skills and personal backgrounds of our team. We hold ourselves accountable with annual reporting on diversity statistics. As a woman owned and led company, diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven into all aspects of the organization.

Compensation and benefits:

Pluribus Digital offers a competitive salary that is determined at the time of offer. We are hiring for multiple levels under this job posting. Compensation will be based on experience and qualifications, with salary ranges aligned accordingly. If a candidate is a strong fit at a more junior or senior level to what is outlined here, we will assess them accordingly and apply the appropriate salary range during the hiring process. The range for this specific role is from $94,000 to $149,000 depending on experience. Salary is augmented with opportunity to earn annual bonus and medical/dental/vision benefits, PTO, company paid life insurance and a generous 401k match program. Details on benefits can be found here: https://pluribusdigital.com/content/join/benefits.