Senior Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Act as the primary technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) across frontend, backend, and cloud/DevOps sectors.

• Define architectural strategies, engineering standards, and technical objectives that align with project and mission goals.

• Make significant technical decisions and address complex, unclear implementation challenges.

• Create, develop, and sustain responsive React frontends with a focus on usability, performance, and accessibility.

• Build secure, scalable backend services and APIs using Python with FastAPI and/or Django.

• Produce clean, testable, and maintainable code through code reviews, automated testing, and comprehensive technical documentation.

• Architect, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure utilizing infrastructure-as-code methods.

• Containerize applications with Docker and deploy, scale, and manage workloads on Kubernetes.

• Design and oversee CI/CD pipelines, observability/monitoring, and automated deployment workflows.

• Set goals, develop roadmaps, and create delivery plans.

• Estimate effort levels and manage task-level financial and schedule performance, including monitoring burn against contract funding.

• Define engineering methodologies, tools, and processes, adapting them to mission and program requirements.

• Direct and oversee engineering activities for the client, ensuring that technical requirements are fulfilled.

• Engage with senior management and program stakeholders; negotiate scope, priorities, trade-offs, and delivery commitments.

• Convert mission and operational needs into a technical strategy, communicating progress, risks, and options to leadership.

• Offer technical leadership and mentorship.

• Participate in staffing decisions, resource planning, and team composition.

• May supervise, guide, and review the work of other engineers.

• Advocate for secure-by-design and secure development practices in a regulated environment that handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

• Ensure that software and infrastructure comply with DoD/IC security standards and organizational compliance requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Expert-level knowledge in React, modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Python backend development using FastAPI and/or Django, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated success in leading significant software development or modernization projects from technical planning to delivery and operation.

• Experience in directing technical activities and engaging directly with senior client stakeholders, including negotiating scope, priorities, and technical direction.

• Familiarity with level-of-effort estimation, resource/staffing planning, and managing task-level delivery.

• Strong foundation in secure software development and cloud security practices.

• U.S. citizenship.

• Current U.S. security clearance or eligibility to obtain one at the level required by the program.

• Capability to meet and maintain clearance eligibility requirements throughout employment.

• Preferred: Experience in AWS GovCloud and/or FedRAMP or DoD Impact Level authorized environments.

• Preferred: Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, along with GitOps-style deployment workflows.

• Preferred: Previous software delivery experience on DoD or Intelligence Community programs.

• Preferred: Understanding of CMMC, NIST 800-171/800-53, or similar compliance frameworks.

• Preferred: Relevant certifications like AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Security+, or equivalent DoD 8570/8140 baseline certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Financial and retirement plans.

• Paid leave.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Tuition assistance.

• Dependent care support.

• Team support both in the office and beyond.