Lead Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Act as Key Personnel and the technical leader on an engineering team.

• Spearhead the design and development of the initial production content-exchange bridge linking the Library of Congress Enterprise Copyright System with Digital Library Services applications.

• Oversee a 3–5 person engineering team.

• Create Architecture Decision Records, establish coding standards, perform peer code reviews, and set quality gates.

• Design, construct, and maintain integration layers and versioned API client contracts.

• Separate consumer pipelines from upstream schema changes.

• Write production-quality code in Python/Django and Java environments.

• Develop and enhance scalable event-driven processing pipelines utilizing AWS services.

• Manage infrastructure using Terraform.

• Sustain and modernize CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins and SonarQube.

• Implement and oversee Content-Addressable Storage architectures with fixity verification.

• Create and maintain Solr and/or Elasticsearch search indexing.

• Collaborate with government Product Owners and stakeholders in a federal Agile/SCRUM context.

• Direct story-point estimation, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

• Provide support during core business hours, Monday–Friday.

• Complete Library of Congress IT security training and sign an NDA before gaining system access.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in information system design, complex software development, and application programming on large-scale database management systems.

• Experience in production application development using Python with Django.

• Application development experience in Java within a hybrid Python/Java architecture.

• Practical AWS experience with ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, and SNS/SQS.

• Proficiency with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

• Hands-on experience in building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins and security scanning tools like SonarQube.

• Familiarity with Content-Addressable Storage architectures, hash-based addressing, immutable object stores, and fixity verification.

• Experience with Solr and/or Elasticsearch for content discovery and metadata querying.

• Proven experience with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

• Experience in designing microservices architectures with versioned API client contracts, backward compatibility, and graceful degradation.

• Practiced Agile/SCRUM methodologies in a federal delivery environment, including estimation, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.

• Availability to support core business hours, 8:30 AM–5:30 PM ET, Monday–Friday.

• Capacity to complete Library of Congress IT security training and NDA prior to system access.

• No active security clearance is required; must fulfill Public Trust/CUI/Moderate eligibility criteria.

• Preferred: previous delivery on Library of Congress contracts under Library SDLC standards.

• Preferred: familiarity with digital preservation concepts and standards such as OAIS, PREMIS, and METS.

• Preferred: experience with malware scanning, fixity validation, or format characterization pipelines.

• Preferred: knowledge of TypeScript, ReactJS, or Angular.

• Preferred: experience in modernizing or migrating CI/CD pipeline tooling.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible PTO.

• 401(k) with employer match.

• Paid parental leave after one year of service.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Remote work environment that promotes flexibility and collaboration.

• Starting salary range of $130,000–$142,000.