Our client is an IT consultancy serving government and commercial clients, providing software products, IT services, and management services.
They are now looking to add to their team and are looking to hire a "Software Engineer / Technical Delivery Lead . This role will be based out of Vienna, VA, and is Hybrid
About the Role
The Software Engineer / Technical Delivery Lead will provide hands-on software development and drive technical delivery for a suite of applications supporting a federal project. The role will assess the current applications and target environment, define and lead an executable deployment approach, resolve issues that could prevent UAT readiness, and deliver new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes in response to user and client feedback. The successful candidate will work closely with project management, architecture, business analysis, UX, quality assurance, DevOps, infrastructure, and other contributors to coordinate implementation and production delivery.
Responsibilities
- Assess the current deployment model, dependencies, configuration, interfaces, data needs, and known limitations of the current product suite.
- Learn the client's development, test, and production environments, including deployment procedures, configuration boundaries, and operational constraints.
- Identify gaps between the applications' current state and the conditions required to run successfully in the client environment.
- Guide the transition from initial application states to production-ready implementations and to client-controlled DevOps environment and delivery pipelines.
- Troubleshoot complex application and integration issues and support release-readiness activities.
- Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to configure, deploy, and support AWS services required for application delivery and operation.
- Contribute directly to development tasks, technical estimates, code reviews, dependency resolution, and integration activities.
- Develop, maintain, and review web, API, mobile, service, and business-logic components.
- Communicate technical risks, decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Required Technology Proficiency
- Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, RxJS, and responsive web application development.
- Node.js and TypeScript service development, including Express or an equivalent framework.
- REST/JSON APIs, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, API validation, authentication, authorization, and integration testing.
- Core AWS services, including Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL/RDS, MSK (Kafka), ElastiCache for Redis, S3, and EventBridge.
- Native iOS and Android application development using Swift and Kotlin.
- SQL proficiency and hands-on experience designing and optimizing relational databases.
- Secure software development practices, including input validation, dependency and vulnerability management, secrets handling, secure coding review, and remediation of security findings.
- Git-based DevOps practices, including source control, pull-request workflows, branching, code reviews, automated build and deployment pipelines, environment configuration across development, test, UAT, and production, and release management.
Preferred Technology Familiarity
- Authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, mTLS, and role- or claims-based access controls.
- AI-assisted development and productivity tools such as Codex, with human review and validation of generated code and related artifacts.
Required Qualifications
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust determination; an existing favorable Public Trust determination is preferred.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, including experience with production application delivery.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or an Associate Degree with two additional years of experience.
- Hands-on experience with production application deployment, environment configuration, dependency resolution, validation, and troubleshooting.
- Strong ownership, prioritization, and decision-making under a short delivery timeline.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and client teams and communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies, frameworks, and tools to solve unfamiliar technical challenges and meet evolving project needs.
