Description
Security Clearance: Secret clearance required
Citizenship: US Citizenship required
On-Site Requirement: 5 days per week at Pentagon/Arlington, VA
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 an experienced Full Stack Engineers who is 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.ย ย
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 designsย
- Analyze and study complex system requirementsย
- Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain software developmentย
- Use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, and fault tolerantย
- Provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development processย
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 fieldย
- Active Secret security clearance
- Experience working with Palantir Foundry (software platform)
- Experience working with Maven Smart System (MSS)- AI powered data integration and decision support system
- Experience with asynchronous programming, observables, and data structuringย
- Node.js/TypeScript building REST APIs, solid understanding of concurrency, async patterns, and API designย
- Experience with application state management strategiesย
- Solid understanding of HTML and CSS, including responsive design principles, CSS preprocessors and knowledge of UI frameworksย
- Capable of developing full stack web applications following design team specificationsย
- Familiarity with front and backend build tools and package managersย
- Strong team player who thrives in a highly collaborative and cross-function environment with a growth mindsetย
- Development processes: source control, defect tracking, collaborative tools, code review a plusย
- Capable of conducting peer reviewsย
- Capable of decomposing software requirements into actionable development capabilitiesย
- Excellent Communicator, both written and verbalย
Qualities of Exceptional Candidates:
- Proven capacity to design scalable and maintainable solutions and patternsย
- Experience in analyzing and employing strategies that optimize user experience, data retrieval and storage, and performanceย
- Experience with scripting in Linux and Windows environmentsย
- Experience with encryption and cryptography algorithmsย
- Experience with Scrum or another agile methodologyย
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.ย ย
Background Screening/Check/Investigation:
Successful completion of a background screening/check/investigation will/may be required as a condition of hire.
ADA:
Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.
EEO/AA:
Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Benefits:
We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.
Salary Range:
The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.