Full Stack Engineer - Innovation & Rapid Prototyping

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Kentro is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to support our Innovation team - an engineer with a strong foundation in software development and solution architecture who thrives in writing code, designing and building technical solutions, and experimenting with new technologies, while understanding how applications operate on modern cloud platforms.

You’ll design and prototype innovative, cloud-enabled solutions that evolve into reference architectures for enterprise adoption. You’ll collaborate with infrastructure experts who own our platform and IaC foundations, so your solutions are deployable, maintainable, and scalable - your focus stays on building the solutions themselves.

You’ll take a vague customer problem on Monday and demo a working prototype by Friday. Some of what you build gets thrown away; the best of it becomes reference architecture Kentro takes to federal customers. You’ll work across AI/LLM tooling, cloud-native services, and whatever the problem demands.

This role is for engineers who want to stay hands‑on - you’ll spend most of your time building, not reviewing, and you’ll own prototypes across the full stack, from backend services through the frontend that demos them.

Hybrid, McLean, VA

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $165,000 - $185,000 annually and reflects Kentro’s good‑faith expectations at the time of posting. Final compensation is determined based on the role’s requirements, relevant skills, experience, education, certifications, work location, applicable security clearance requirements, market conditions, internal equity, and contract requirements.

This Job Description reflects the primary duties of the role; however, it is not intended to be all‑inclusive. Team members may be asked to take on additional responsibilities in alignment with customer expectations, business needs, and Kentro’s culture of collaboration and adaptability.

Focus:
Solution Engineering, Application Development, Rapid Prototyping

• Design and prototype innovative full-stack solutions - backend services, APIs, and the frontend interfaces that consume them - that translate high-level challenges into working proofs of value and provide guidance to mature them into production-ready solutions.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly through demos, documentation, and technical discussions with existing and potential customers, virtually and in-person.
• Design decoupled, API‑first environments using cloud‑native services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to support a seamless flow between headless backends and diverse frontend consumers.
• Integrate and extend enterprise platforms (e.g., Service Now, Salesforce, Databricks, and cloud ecosystems) to deliver connected, intelligent services. Prior experience with these specific platforms is not required - what matters is the ability to learn an unfamiliar platform quickly and get to a working integration.
• Build reference implementations, reusable accelerators, and automation patterns that scale innovation beyond individual projects.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to embed innovation…