Forward Deployed Software Engineer, DART

USATII develops and deploys enterprise software for organizations managing complex, mission-critical operations. Our engineering teams work directly with customers to understand operational requirements, build integrated systems, and maintain responsibility for the software throughout its production lifecycle.

Our Federal Engineering team combines forward-deployed software engineers, platform architects, infrastructure specialists, cybersecurity professionals, and government delivery personnel to implement software in demanding federal environments.

DART is USATII's enterprise deployment and workforce management platform. It unifies personnel qualifications, professional development, training, workforce readiness, incident staffing, deployment operations, and historical reporting within a single operational system.

We are building a team of engineers who can move between customer discovery, application development, systems integration, and production operations. Our approach gives engineers substantial ownership over the software they develop and direct exposure to the people who rely on it.

USATII is seeking Forward Deployed Software Engineers to develop, implement, and extend DART for federal government customers.

You will work directly with government program personnel, incident workforce managers, training administrators, qualification reviewers, and technical stakeholders to understand complex operational requirements and translate them into production software.

An initial area of focus is the potential modernization of FEMA 's legacy Deployment Tracking System, for which USATII has submitted a Sources Sought response. The prospective implementation would involve configuring and extending DART's existing capabilities, integrating government data systems, migrating historical workforce records, and supporting deployment into an authorized federal environment. No contract award has been made.

You will build across DART's application stack, including its Next.js and React interfaces, Node.js services, PostgreSQL data models, authorization systems, and asynchronous processing infrastructure.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role. You will investigate operational problems alongside the people experiencing them, design appropriate solutions, implement those solutions directly, and remain involved through testing, deployment, and production support.

The position is based around federal customer engagement in Washington, DC, with hybrid work arrangements and travel determined by implementation requirements.

• Work directly with federal operational personnel to understand workforce readiness, qualification management, training, incident staffing, and deployment procedures, translating approved requirements into functional software.
• Develop and maintain full-stack application capabilities using Type Script , Next.js, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and DART's existing application architecture.
• Own the implementation of substantial product workflows from technical design through production deployment, including database changes, backend services, frontend interfaces, automated tests, and operational documentation.
• Extend DART's personnel qualification functionality, including Position Task Book assignments, versioned qualification requirements, evidence submission, mentorship, independent reviews, qualification decisions, renewals, and revocations.
• Build and configure professional development and training workflows involving course enrollment, prerequisite enforcement, assessments, certification records, training transcripts, and integration with external learning systems.
• Develop personnel availability and readiness capabilities that evaluate qualification status, training requirements, approved availability periods, existing assignments, and agency-defined deployment eligibility rules.
• Implement incident staffing functionality supporting personnel selection, staffing requests, qualification matching, team composition, force packages, approval workflows, and the preservation of selection decisions and their supporting evidence.
• Extend deployment lifecycle capabilities covering deployment requests, approval and issuance, acceptance or decline, travel status, duty-station accountability, extensions, rotations, demobilization, and deployment evaluations.
• Build operational dashboards and analytical tools that enable government stakeholders to evaluate workforce readiness, staffing gaps,…