Senior Full Stack Software Engineer – Technical Lead

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of intricate frontend and backend solutions within a cloud-native microservices framework.

• Provide technical guidance across engineering projects, assisting teams in breaking down tasks, identifying potential risks, evaluating trade-offs, and achieving program objectives and timelines.

• Facilitate technical design discussions, create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and present system designs and recommendations to engineers, product owners, and federal stakeholders.

• Act as a mentor and coach for junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, technical advice, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

• Establish and uphold engineering best practices, including peer code reviews, testing standards, accessibility requirements, security compliance, and maintainable software design.

• Develop and utilize RESTful APIs based on versioned OpenAPI specifications while contributing to backend services, frontend applications, and system integrations.

• Enforce engineering quality standards, including compliance with SonarQube quality gates, automated testing, and addressing security issues within development cycles.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, delivery leads, and stakeholders to ensure technical solutions align with customer and business goals.

• Drive continuous improvement efforts across software engineering processes, tools, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and team workflows.

• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues while leading root-cause analysis efforts and implementing long-term enhancements to reliability and performance.

• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code standards, Terraform automation, GitLab pipeline optimization, and cloud modernization initiatives.

• Assist in technical hiring processes through interviews, candidate evaluations, onboarding, and engineering team development.

• Serve as a technical lead for project workstreams, feature teams, or temporary delivery teams, coordinating engineering efforts to ensure successful delivery outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree.

• Must fulfill federal suitability requirements and successfully pass a background investigation as a condition of employment.

• Extensive experience in building and supporting modern full-stack applications, encompassing both frontend and backend development responsibilities.

• Expert-level proficiency in backend technologies such as Python or Java.

• Strong frontend development experience with Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Experience in building and consuming versioned RESTful APIs with published OpenAPI specifications.

• Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and contemporary data integration patterns.

• Hands-on experience with containerized microservices and AWS cloud services, including ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and source control management with Git.

• Familiarity with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and their application in digital products.

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities, including the capacity to articulate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical audiences and federal stakeholders.

🏝️ 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