Full Stack Software Engineer

Overview

Role:
Full Stack Software Engineer

Client:
Defense-Aerospace

Location:

Orlando, FL

Type:
Contractor
• Length: 6-month contract
• Hourly Rate: up to $100/hr (W2, non-benefited)

Clearance:
Ability to Obtain Secret Clearance (not needed to start)

• Design and implement a scalable platform that enables advanced analytics and AI driven development 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 Git Lab for automated testing, linting, and deployment to both cloud based and air gapped environments.
• Integrate third party services such as email/SMS notifications, and learning management standards (SCORM, xAPI, CMI5).
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end to end tests 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.

• 6 or more years of delivering full stack software solutions on complex, data intensive programs.
• Version Control & CI/CD:
  Experience with version control software, preferably Git Lab (repos, merge requests, pipelines).
• Software Fundamentals:
  Strong grasp of design patterns, automated testing, continuous integration, and code quality practices.
• Data Technologies:
  Familiarity with relational databases, messaging services, REST APIs, and object storage.
• UI/UX Design:
  Ability to design and implement responsive user interfaces and dashboards.
• 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

• Agile methodology experience (Scrum, Kanban) and participation in cross functional Agile teams.
• Advanced Dev Ops toolset knowledge (Ansible, Nexus, Git Lab Runner, Harbor).
• Proficiency in React, Next.js, Node.js, Shadcn UI Kit, FastAPI, and modern front end ecosystems.
• Experience with Apache Superset/Trino for cross platform data querying and analytics.
• Strong scripting abilities (Power Shell, 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 Driven Design

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with supplemental experience (e.g. Aerospace Engineering with experience in software development).