Senior Full Stack Engineer

Senior Full Stack Engineer Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Senior Full Stack Engineer for a contract position in Reston, VA. The opportunity will be for six months with a strong chance for a long-term extension. Position Summary: This team seeks an EXPERT in JavaScript ES6, Typescript, Node JS, AWS Serverless, and React. This team is working on student-facing products/programs supporting, enhancing, and building AWS-based React/Node applications. Most development teams work in a poly-skilled manner, focusing on automation and improving frameworks for testing in addition to core development. The hiring manager is looking for mid-to-senior engineers with solid skills, including communication, motivation, collaboration, organization, problem-solving, creativity, curiosity, proactivity, and who can operate with minimal guidance. Someone that can hit the ground running, is comfortable engaging with their teams remotely, and is a self-starter with proven technical ability. The engineer should be able to contribute to both frontend and backend code, with an immediate focus on backend code. Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities: As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, the candidate will be responsible for complex software development, including coding, managing small sections of ongoing projects, collaborating with others, and closely adhering to deadlines while advancing the team's best practices. The candidate will also take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation. The candidate will ensure relationships with customers and cross-team members are professional and meet expectations. The organization manages a complex and comprehensive suite of applications, data systems, data feeds, and reports to support students and educators across multiple assessments, programs, and services. Working within the Information Technology division and across the operations and key business units, the Senior Full Stack Engineer will analyze procedures, and design and implement solutions to design, deliver, and maintain high-quality software that is scalable, secure, and reusable. The Senior Full Stack Engineer will design, develop and implement solutions based on a set of standards and processes that establish consistency across the team and enterprise, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization's goals and objectives. The ideal candidate will have designed, developed, and implemented serverless software solutions in support of data quality and automation. The candidate will also possess technical skills and experience in the data management domain that will help their ability to design and develop elegant and efficient data processes and systems. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and/or other advanced degree(s) Relevant AWS or other professional certifications Minimum 7 years demonstrated experience with software development Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tool sets, technologies, and implementation environments Strong practical experience in JavaScript/Typescript based ecosystem and tools Possess technical skills and experience in the virtual infrastructure domain, specifically Amazon Web Services and AWS serverless technologies (Lambdas, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, Redshift, etc.) Design and development experience in building and monitoring microservices Demonstrated experience in developing full stack solutions using NodeJS Working experience and discipline in Agile, CI/CD, DevOps best practices Fundamentals in OO and computer science foundation principles Knowledge of software development lifecycle and modern software engineering principles and practices Proficient in using AI coding assistants and autonomous agents to accelerate development, testing, and automation-while maintaining deep code understanding, critically validating AI outputs, and exercising technical ownership over all code Demonstrated experience building automation test suites Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code implementation Technology: AWS - DynamoDB AWS - Lambda AWS - S3 AWS - SNS/SQS AWS RedShift Serverless: JavaScript (ES6) Node.js (cannot be only using NPM packages): Typescript React.js AI-Augmented Development including Agentic Workflows Preferred: Experience working on Agile teams with the scrum team member attitude - willingness to support the Team to be successful in any area necessary High analytical skills and ability to design, develop, build, refactor scalable, reusable applications and monitor high-frequency data services Ability to use: KMS, SQS SNS, OpenSearch, Route 53, VPC Fluency with CI/CD toolsets such as: CloudFormation, GitHub, Ansible Experience with relational databases and NoSQL databases Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques Appetite to learn new things, both business process and technology Knowledge in InfrastructureAsCode, and GenAI If this job is a match for your background, we would be honoured to receive your application! 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