Technical Lead

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain a comprehensive full stack application utilizing contemporary front-end and back-end technologies.

• Create maintainable, scalable, and secure application components that align with both business and technical specifications.

• Build responsive user interfaces and seamlessly integrate them with back-end services and databases.

• Identify and troubleshoot application defects, resolve performance challenges, and provide support for production environments.

• Collaborate with system administrators to oversee service configurations, file permissions, certificates, environment variables, and system logs.

• Analyze Java application performance issues, including memory usage, exceptions, and deployment failures.

• Assist with application upgrades, patch management, compatibility testing, and enhancements for runtime security.

• Engage in code reviews, technical design discussions, and initiatives for continuous improvement.

• Document application architecture, deployment processes, system configurations, API specifications, and troubleshooting guidelines.

• Embed security measures throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Work closely with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to enforce security controls, meet audit requirements, and implement risk mitigation strategies.

• Partner with front-end developers, external system owners, and integration teams to ensure consistent and reliable API consumption.

• Maintain documentation for the API lifecycle, including usage instructions, version updates, dependencies, and deprecation alerts.

• Offer technical support during application releases, address production incidents, conduct root-cause analyses, and facilitate problem resolution.

• Suggest enhancements to improve application reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and deployment automation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a US citizen or authorized to work in the US and have resided in the US for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

• Eligible to obtain a federal government client badge and successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• At least 15 years of professional experience in developing and supporting full stack applications.

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Database design and maintenance.

• Proficiency in developing Java applications using Amazon Corretto or an alternative OpenJDK distribution, with the capability to support Amazon Corretto specifically.

• Experience in deploying and maintaining applications on Apache Tomcat.

• Hands-on experience supporting applications within Oracle Enterprise Linux environments.

• Practical DevSecOps experience, utilizing Jenkins or similar tools to integrate automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with source control systems such as Git and collaborative development workflows.

• Understanding of secure coding practices, application authentication and authorization, vulnerability management, and software dependency security.

• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively across development, operations, and security teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities to reach your potential.

• Community of great minds with national impact.