Software Engineer - Web Development

VERISIGN; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Verisign is looking for a junior engineer to join the Web Marketing Development team in Reston, VA. You will participate in ideation, design, implementation, deployment, and issue resolution, collaborating across Product, Marketing, Engineering, Security and Operations.

The team maintains front-end components, site templates, and a git-based content workflow, operating in public cloud with automated deployments via Docker, Ansible, and Terraform. Hybrid work in Reston is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 2+ years software development experience
• Or a Master’s degree with hands-on software development work experience through demonstrable projects or internships
• Experience with web tooling and secure coding standards
• Familiarity with UNIX-like operating systems
• Demonstration of understanding of Secure Coding standards
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), eager to learn new technologies

Responsibilities

• Involved in ideation, design, implementation, deployment, and issue resolution
• Cross-team collaboration with Product, Marketing, Engineering, Security and Operations teams
• Provide technical contributions and work collaboratively with other team members
• Work with front-end components, site templates, and a git-based content editing workflow

Skills

Web performance optimization

Git/SVN version control

Frontend toolchains (npm/webpack/babel

Unix-like OS

Secure coding practices

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree with project/internship experience

Tools

StencilJS

Astro

Tailwind CSS

AWS CloudFront/S3/Route53

Docker

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Gradle

Yarn

Job description

Verisign is looking for a junior engineer to expand the Verisign Web Marketing Development team.

The candidate will be involved in all aspects of product development including ideation, design, implementation, deployment, and issue resolution. This will usually imply cross-team collaboration with Product, Marketing, Engineering, Security and Operations teams. The candidate is expected to provide technical contributions and work collaboratively with other team members.

Product

Web Marketing operates a set of customer-facing web applications and static sites, which deliver informational content and the latest news from Verisign. This includes the primary corporate site of verisign.com, several product and campaign focused sites, and a public blog. The team is on course to unify all these sites under a common framework, toolset, and design system which allows for reuse of front-end components. Additionally, the team operates their infrastructure in the public cloud and is responsible for maintaining and improving those platforms.

This team manages a collection of front-end components, including site templates, themes, and Web Components for interactivity, as well as a git-based content editing workflow.

Team

The team possesses extensive technical ownership over the product. The work style of the team is closer to an internal startup where all the team members are involved in the majority of product development phases and are flexible moving between focus areas.

The team follows Agile Development methodology relying on daily Scrums with tickets prioritized in Jira. Our code is located on internal GitHub; we utilize pull request code reviews. For continuous delivery, we use Jenkins with pipelines and our product deployments are automated with Docker, Ansible, and Terraform.

It is clearly beneficial if the candidate has experience working with some of the tools mentioned.

Skills

Required

• Ability to optimize webpage loading and rendering
• Working knowledge of at least one version control system: Git, SVN, etc.
• Experience with common website toolchains and dependencies: npm, webpack/babel, prettier, postCSS, etc.
• OS: Familiarity with UNIX-like operating systems
• Demonstration of understanding of Secure Coding standards.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), eager to learn new technologies

Advantageous

• Frameworks: StencilJS, Astro, Tailwind CSS
• AWS Public cloud services including Cloudfront, S3 and Route53
• Methodology: Scrum
• Scripting: Bash, Python
• Containerization: Docker
• CI/CD/CM: Git, Jenkins, Gradle, Yarn
• Deployment Automation: Ansible, Terraform

Education and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 2+ years software development experience
• or a Master’s degree with hands-on software development work experience through demonstrable projects or internships

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $89,900 - $121,700.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.