Senior Front-End Software Developer
Plateau Software Inc · Meade, MD
$135,000–$145,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Meade, MD
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A front-end developer role supporting U.S. Air Force operations at Ft. Meade, focused on building and refining secure, operator-facing web interfaces within a DoD environment. Day-to-day work spans UI/UX design, wireframing, GUI development, system testing, and integration with CI/CD pipelines under Agile and DevSecOps practices. Suits an experienced developer comfortable with clearance-required government work and tools like Jenkins, GitLab, and UX design platforms.
Senior level · 7+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $141,954 (middle half $107,994–$205,328). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is titled 'Front-End Software Developer' with no explicit seniority level in the title; advertised seniority is Unspecified. However, the 7-year overall experience requirement and 5-year Jenkins/GitLab requirement support a Senior classification.
The posting requires 'at least five of the following tools: NPM, Cypress.io, esbuild, Bun, Apache Tomcat, Maven, SonarQube' — all seven are listed under the required qualifications block and marked as required here, though strictly only five need to be demonstrated. Hiring managers should note this flexibility.
Similarly, the Desired Qualifications DevSecOps tool list (GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify, JUnit5, Ansible, esbuild) requires at least five; GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, and esbuild overlap with required skills, so only Fortify, JUnit5, and Ansible are surfaced as additional preferred skills.
Sketch and InVision are listed under 'Demonstrated experience with' in the required qualifications block, which reads as a hard gate; they are marked required accordingly.
The clearance requirement states 'active secret or interim clearance' — classified as Secret.
Ft. Meade, MD falls within the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD CBSA. The role appears to be on-site given the mission-critical DoD context and no remote language.
The alt SOC 15-1254 (Web Developers) was considered given the front-end/UI focus, but the role's scope — DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, microservices, containerization, and full software engineering lifecycle — is consistent with 15-1252 Software Developers.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): front-end web development.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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