Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Applications Developer Engineer in Washington, DC. Duties Include: * Leads large-scale custom application development projects through the implementation life cycle, utilizing project management processes, techniques, and tools, including but not limited to the development and maintenance of project plans, gathering of system requirements, leading team meetings, documenting and resolving issues, and managing risks * Researches, designs and writes new software programs of various levels of complexity; Improves existing applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification * Explores emerging technologies and best practices to ensure our application stack is cutting-edge and forward-looking, including researching and designing programming patterns, frameworks, and custom libraries * Provides technical mentorship to the development team on solutions, architecture, research, best practices, and implementation of new technologies * Develops code reviews standards to ensure the highest quality code is approved before being deployed to production environments * Recommends and performs actions to correct problems based on knowledge of the system * Writes detailed system documentation for all implemented applications * Provides end-user training for new application users * Evaluates and prioritizes daily and weekly projects * Makes recommendations to management on ways to increase quality and efficiency of services and applications