Role: Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Location: Onsite- Fairfax, VA 3 Days and in Washington, DC 2 Days per Week.
Duration: Long Term Contract
Position Require a Secret Clearance
Job Description:
The Senior Full-Stack Engineer position requires a highly experienced system engineer with a strong emphasis on backend systems design, architecture, and performance. The role is responsible for leading the development of scalable, secure, and highavailability backend services while contributing to front-end development. Requires the ability to guide architectural decisions in rapidly evolving environments. Position requires collaboration with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver robust endtoend solutions that power missioncritical applications.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead backend architecture and development, ensuring reliability, scalability, and high performance.
- Design and build RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs supporting complex business logic.
- Develop and maintain distributed systems, microservices, and backend services.
- Collaborate with front-end engineers to integrate APIs, ensure data consistency, and deliver seamless fullstack features.
- Write clean, maintainable, welltested code across the stack.
- Conduct in-depth code reviews, provide technical mentorship, and drive engineering best practices.
- Optimize systems for performance, observability, monitoring, security, and fault tolerance.
- Work closely with DevOps teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Participate in architectural reviews, technical planning, and roadmap discussions.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science or a technical field
- 10+ years developing complex support applications with proven leadership in legacy software rebuilds
- Microsoft Full-Stack Development building web applications using MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js)
- Front and back-end development knowledge in JAVA, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and framework libraries expertise
- Solid understanding of API security, caching strategies, and authentication techniques.
- Handson experience with AWS cloud services and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong expertise in database design and management
- Excellent communication and management skills.
Certifications Required:
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Professional in Full Stack Development (CP-FSD)
Certification Preferred:
- AWS Solutions Architect certification
Security Clearance Requirements:
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance.
Work Location:
- 3 days in Fairfax, VA, 2 days in Washington, D.C.