Full Stack Software Engineering Lead

We have an outstanding Contract position for aFull Stack Software Engineering Lead to join a leading Company located in the Orlando, FL surrounding area.

**USCitizenship is required.**

**Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.**

Job Responsibilities:  

• Design and implement a scalable platform that enables advanced analytics and AI drivendevelopment acceleration.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across all platform domains, incorporating archival, disaster recovery, and backup strategies.
• Define and publish robust APIs that expose data and services to front-end clients and third-party consumers.
• Develop responsive UI components using a modern React framework (e.g., Next.js, Shadcn UI Kit) to deliver dashboards, visualizations, and interactive data views.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for automated testing, linting, and deployment to both cloud-based and air-gapped environments.
• Integrate third partyservices such as email/SMS notifications and learning management standards (SCORM, xAPI, CMI5).
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end to endtests to protect against regressions and maintain high code quality.
• Document APIs, data models, and deployment procedures clearly to facilitate cross-team collaboration.
• Leverage AI (e.g., Claude, other LLMs) as a core development assistant to accelerate coding, refactoring, test generation, and design validation.

Basic Hiring Criteria: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with supplemental experience (e.g.Aerospace Engineering with experience in software development).
• 6 years delivering full-stack software solutions on complex, data-intensive programs.
• Version Control & CI/CD: Experience with version control software, preferably GitLab (repos, merge requests, pipelines).
• Software Fundamentals: Strong grasp of design patterns, automated testing, continuous integration, and code quality practices.
• Familiarity with relational databases, messaging services, REST APIs, and object storage.
• UI/UX Design: Ability to design and implement responsive user interfaces and dashboards.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Agile methodology experience (Scrum, Kanban) and participation in cross-functional Agile teams.
• Advanced DevOps toolset knowledge (Ansible, Nexus, GitLab Runner, Harbor).
• Proficiency in React, Next.js, Node.js, Shadcn UI Kit, FastAPI, and modern front endecosystems.
• Experience with Apache Superset/Trino for cross-platform data querying and analytics.
• Strong scripting abilities (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Prior exposure to Turnkey training or learning architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud/air gapped deployment models
• Experience with integrating email/SMS notifications
• Experience with learning management standards (SCORM, xAPI, CMI5).
• Emphasis on Vision & AI DrivenDesign.
• While specific language level skills are valuable, the most critical success factors are:
  • Domain expertise in building end-to-end full-stack solutions that address data flow, security, archival, and disaster recovery concerns.
  • Strategic vision to design platforms that enable AI-augmented development, ensuring that the solution remains adaptable as AI capabilities evolve.
  • Ability to leverage AI tools (Cline AI Plugin for VSCode, generative code assistants) to enhance productivity, code quality, and architectural validation, reducing reliance on niche technical specialties.