# Front-End Developer / 508 Compliance Specialist

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Annapolis Junction, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $144,500 - $195,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Front End Engineer Senior/ 508 Compliance Specialist at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

As a Front End Engineer Senior/ 508 Compliance Specialist, you will play a crucial role in collaborating with a cross-functional Agile team of software developers, system engineers, and product owners to build and validate accessible, compliant, and high-quality user interfaces.

The ideal candidate combines solid front-end engineering skills with deep, hands-on expertise in accessibility testing and remediation, including proficiency with screen reader technology.

**Responsibilities:**

- Accessible Front-End Development: Design, develop, and maintain front-end components and user interfaces that conform to Section 508 and WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA standards.

- 508 Testing & Remediation: Perform comprehensive accessibility testing using JAWS and other screen readers, identifying and remediating issues related to keyboard navigation, focus management, ARIA implementation, color contrast, and semantic HTML structure.

- Audit & Documentation: Conduct manual and automated accessibility audits, document findings, and produce test reports as needed to support agency compliance requirements.

- Collaboration: Partner with UX/UI designers, developers, and product owners early in the design process to bake accessibility in by design rather than retrofit it, and provide guidance on accessible design patterns.

- Integration & Delivery: Work with QA and DevOps to integrate automated accessibility testing tools (e.g., axe-core, Pa11y, Lighthouse) into the CI/CD pipeline for continuous compliance monitoring.

- Agile Ceremonies: Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, demos) and communicate accessibility requirements and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

**Required Technical Skills:**

- Proven experience developing front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue preferred)

- Hands-on expertise testing with JAWS screen reader, with working familiarity of other assistive technologies

- Strong knowledge of Section 508 standards, WCAG 2.1/2.2 (Levels A/AA), and ARIA authoring practices

- Experience with semantic HTML, accessible form design, keyboard navigation patterns, and focus management

- Proficiency with accessibility testing/auditing tools (e.g., axe DevTools, WAVE, Pa11y, Lighthouse)

- Experience with version control systems (Git) and Agile collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- JavaScript
- Vue
- Section 508
- WCAG 2.1/2.2
- ARIA
- Semantic HTML
- Accessible Form Design
- Keyboard Navigation
- Focus Management
- JAWS
- axe-core
- Pa11y
- Lighthouse
- Git
- Jira
- Confluence

### Nice to have
- VPATs/Accessibility Conformance Reports
- Integrating automated accessibility checks into CI/CD pipelines
- Cypress
- Cloud-based architecture and deployment
- Domain knowledge surrounding government agency reporting and dissemination policies

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