Senior Full Stack Software Engineer – Technical Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of complex frontend and backend solutions within a cloud-native microservice architecture.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering initiatives, helping teams break down work, identify risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver against program goals and timelines.
• Facilitate technical design discussions, author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and present system designs and recommendations to engineers, product owners, and federal stakeholders.
• Serve as a mentor and coach for junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices, including peer code reviews, testing standards, accessibility requirements, security compliance, and maintainable software design.
• Build and consume RESTful APIs using versioned OpenAPI specifications while contributing to backend services, frontend applications, and system integrations.
• Enforce engineering quality standards, including SonarQube quality gate compliance, automated testing, and remediation of security findings within development cycles.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, delivery leads, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with customer and business objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across software engineering processes, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and team workflows.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues while leading root‑cause analysis efforts and implementing long‑term improvements to reliability and performance.
• Contribute to infrastructure‑as‑code standards, Terraform automation, GitLab pipeline optimization, and cloud modernization efforts.
• Support technical hiring activities through interviews, candidate assessments, onboarding, and engineering team development.
• Act as a technical lead for project workstreams, feature teams, or temporary delivery teams, coordinating engineering efforts and helping ensure successful delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment.
• Strong experience building and supporting modern full stack applications, including 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 building and consuming versioned RESTful APIs with published OpenAPI specifications.
• Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and modern 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 using Git.
• Working knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and their application within digital products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and decisions to non‑technical audiences and federal stakeholders.