Senior Software Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Location: Tysons VA, or Baltimore, MD Duration: 6 month Locals to VA/DC/MD only Interview Process: phone - then in person Please don’t send resumes without: AWS, Git, MySQL, PHP, and SQL, Groovy, devops and/or automated configuration management, any CMS experience H1B candidates are fine, but must be willing to be sponsored by WiseWire after 6 months of contracting. This has been open for some time, but only as direct hire. Now they are open for C2C too. ***2 days work from home/week after conversion!!!! This must be a very sharp individual. Our team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong web development experience to work in our Baltimore, MD or Tysons Corner, VA location. Communication must be very solid as they are a B2C and B2B digital content company. These candidates must have solid communication skills, at least 8/10 and be very clear over phone. The manager wants them to start in the next two weeks. An in person interview would be required. As our technical leader and programmer, you will put in place the engineering team and processes to propel us into the top ranks of EdTech companies in both B2B and B2C spaces. Our e-commerce model lets users create their own technology-enhanced student-assessment items and sell them on our site along with our own high-quality learning objects. Our learning platforms can connect with 3rd-party learning-management systems and you'll integrate our systems with the most widely- used learning technologies in the world today. This is an opportunity for you to apply your engineering and programming expertise and grow into a leadership role steering the technical direction of Wisewire. You will coordinate the efforts of a number of independent developers and perhaps a small vendor team building our WordPress/PHP based marketplace as well as our J2EE/Groovy-based student assessment platform. You will OWN our code and you'll create our software-development and operational processes from scratch. You will select or build tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations, show leadership in finding out-of-the-box solutions to technical issues and also an opportunity to enhance your DevOps skills About you: * You've worked as a Senior Software Engineer in an enterprise setting * You have implemented or spearheaded new processes that include GitHub, scum, continuous integration and deployment * You have expert-level code experience with PHP (especially custom coding in WordPress/Woocommerce) and/or Groovy * You have worked in a team of JavaScript engineers, you have done or led front end development, have been in situations where you have re-architected legacy systems * You have lead or worked in a team of developers to successfully design and develop a multi-tier application. * You have designed and developed custom web and native applications; * Developed core services using a prebuilt framework to perform tasks and may be authored software documentation. * You have experience with configuration management and some dev-ops insight, preferably automated * You're comfortable with a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with Git and AWS is required) * You're fluent in SQL and MySQL Basic Requirements: * Bachelor’s Degree in IT-related discipline * At least 4 years’ experience in web software development * Functional knowledge of AWS and Git (BitBucket) * Work with multiple product owners to understand and help inform desired application functionality * Continuously improve software engineering and operations practices * Work with multiple company teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a range of technologies * Own the quality, performance, and scalability of your solutions and processes * Stay on top of tech trends, and experiment with and learn new technologies * Be passionate about innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organization * Be equally as comfortable deep in the code as you are crafting and driving the technologyroadmap many months ahead Preferred Qualifications: * Master’s Degree in IT-related discipline * 6+ years’ experience in software development, especially with J2EE, Groovy, or PHP will be great * Experience in DevOps practices is very desirable Please don’t send resumes without: AWS, Git, MySQL, PHP, and SQL, Groovy, devops and/or automated configuration management, any CMS experience If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to gmahesh(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-880-4184. USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA with off-shore delivery centers in India. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers. Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services. Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services ,e-commerce, Social , Mobile, Cloud, Analytics (SMAC) and DevOps. USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.