Front End Web Developer

Front End Web Developer

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Job Type:
Regular

Front-end Software Engineer

The RAND Corporation seeks a Front-end Software Engineer to join RAND's Research Programming Group. The RAND Corporation is a public policy think tank tackling a wide range of issues spanning health care, education and labor, social and economic wellbeing, national security, and military manpower. The Research Programming Group supports researchers on project teams to build data models, simulations, and web applications enabling our institutional goal of objective and impactful research and analysis.

Responsibilities

As a Front-end Software Engineer, you would be working on a number of small teams with research staff and other engineers to build interactive single-page React applications for a variety of use cases including research tools, interactive models, and data visualization. This position requires a self-motivated individual looking to take ownership of designing and implementing intuitive, reusable components and working with the project team to deliver innovative solutions to difficult problems. Interest in experimenting with new tools, understanding the underlying research needs, and advocating for industry best-practices are all highly desired for this position.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with a JS Framework - React (Preferred), Angular, Vue
• Knowledge of HTML5/CSS/JSX
• Familiarity interacting with REST APIs
• Experience with Git / version control

Preferred Qualifications

• Scripting language experience - Python, Node, etc.
• Familiarity with some of our commonly used tools:
  • Component libraries - Material-UI, Semantic UI
  • React Query
  • Mapbox
  • PlotlyJS
• UI/UX design and wireframing
• Experience with a testing framework such as Mocha, Jest, and Jasmin
• Interest in learning and expanding to full-stack development

Education

BA/BS required, MA/MS preferred, preferably in computer science or highly related field such as information systems, computer engineering, etc.

Experience

2 years minimum relevant experience required

Security Clearance

Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance is preferred.

Writing Sample/Coding Sample Required

Applicants will be required to provide Code sample(s) -related work uploaded as a writing sample.

Location

Santa Monica, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Washington DC; Boston, MA

Equal Opportunity Employer: race/color/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin/disability/vet