Lead Full Stack Engineer

Description

Job Location: Washington DC, Arlington, Alexandria, Great Falls, Lorton 

Travel Requirement: Up to 10%

Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance required (interim OK)

Citizenship: US Citizenship required

On-Site Requirement: 1-2 days per week at Pentagon 

Job Description:

Sherpa 6 is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our team. We build mission critical systems for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other commercial customers. We’re looking for experienced Full Stack Engineers who are familiar developing web applications using React, Node.js and Postgres and who are comfortable with the responsibility of overseeing a cross-functional team. You’ll work closely with the Product Owner to lead the development of a full stack web application, in their vision. This project is built using a modern stack and is a new codebase with plenty of opportunity to influence the design and architecture.  

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the tech lead for a product squad—own technical direction, estimation, sprint planning, and on-time delivery of features
• Implement scalable, secure, and observable system architectures (APIs, services, data models, caching, integrations)
• Build high-quality front-end experiences in React and robust back-end services in Node.js/TypeScript, backed by PostgreSQL
• Model schemas, write performant SQL, tune queries, and manage migrations with an eye toward data integrity and growth
• Code and test software based upon software specifications and designs 
• Analyze and study complex system requirements 
• Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain software development 
• Use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, and fault tolerant 
• Provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process 

Requirements

• 6–10+ years of professional software engineering; 2+ years functioning as a team or project tech lead
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field 
• Experience with asynchronous programming, observables, and data structuring 
• Node.js/TypeScript building REST APIs, solid understanding of concurrency, async patterns, and API design 
• Experience with application state management strategies 
• Solid understanding of HTML and CSS, including responsive design principles, CSS preprocessors and knowledge of UI frameworks 
• Capable of developing full stack web applications following design team specifications 
• Familiarity with front and backend build tools and package managers 
• Strong team player who thrives in a highly collaborative and cross-function environment with a growth mindset 
• Development processes: source control, defect tracking, collaborative tools, code review a plus 
• Capable of conducting peer reviews 
• Capable of decomposing software requirements into actionable development capabilities 
• Excellent Communicator, both written and verbal 
• Must pass a background check and drug screening 

Qualities of Exceptional Candidates:

• Proven capacity to design scalable and maintainable solutions and patterns 
• Experience in analyzing and employing strategies that optimize user experience, data retrieval and storage, and performance 
• Experience with scripting in Linux and Windows?environments? 
• Experience with encryption and cryptography?algorithms? 
• Experience with Scrum or another agile methodology 

About Sherpa 6:

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers, passionate about what they do, love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and we're not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harm's way.  

Background Screening/Check/Investigation:

Successful completion of a background screening/check/investigation will/may be required as a condition