Lead Full Stack Developer

Client: GSA

Title: Lead Full Stack Developer

Duration: Long Term

Location: 100% Remote

Job Duties & Responsibilities

·        Lead an agile team of developers and test automation engineers and grow them into a high-performance team.

·        Hands-on role with extensive involvement in the full development lifecycle, including designing, developing, implementing, testing, maintenance and enhancement of products.

·        Hands on experience in leveraging AI tools and technologies during development lifecycle to enhance productivity and efficiency.

·        Accountable for the quality of the product delivered and team performance.

·        Provide technical direction and mentor teams of resources in all aspects of technical delivery incorporating efficient workflows, frameworks, templates, design and code best practices to produce reusable and maintainable code.

·        Implement the best practices of Agile and DevSecOps to deliver quality products predictably and consistently.

·        Lead the evaluation of functional/business and technical requirements and identify gaps/risks.

·        Review proposed new feature development to validate feasibility and estimate the development work.

Required Skills & Experience

·        Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

·        10+ years of full-lifecycle application development experience and at least 3 years of experience using the technologies listed below and AWS cloud platform

·        Experience in architecting and designing solutions and decompose them into modules for development

·        5+ years of experience using Agile, DevSecOps, Test driven development and other lean methodologies

·        Extensive hands-on experience in JavaScript (React.js, Node.js, modern JavaScript libraries - ES6 - 2015 and later versions), API development (GraphQL/RESTful), messaging (Kafka, AWS kinesis or others), serverless application development using AWS Lambda, SQL and NoSQL databases, AWS services (Lambda, S3, Dynamo, Kinesis, RDS, Redshift and several others).

·        Strong experience in database queries and working preferably with MySQL.

·        Good understanding of AI models , Agentic development and RAG concepts.

·        Must have implementation experience on using Agile project management tools (JIRA), and CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing and deployment.

·        Experience developing cloud native solutions according to industry best practices

·        Experience in using AI tools, e.g., Copilot, AWS Bedrock, etc. to generate code for development and automation testing.

·        Experience in establishing source code management best practices (branching, repository

structure, peer review process, documentation) to manage a code base as if it were open source