Lead Full-Stack Developer (AWS)

Location: Remote within the United States; periodic travel to mission partner locations, including the Fort Bragg area, may be required. Classified work must be performed in approved facilities.

Salary: $122209.58–$211317.81

Company

hirify.global delivers digital solutions, commercial-grade platforms, and mission-ready AI for federal agencies across defense, space, healthcare, and energy.

What you will do

• Lead hands-on development of a secure web application for ingesting, managing, discovering, sharing, and reusing mission datasets and digital assets.
• Design, build, test, review, and maintain responsive interfaces, backend services, REST APIs, databases, and cloud integrations.
• Build scalable upload, ingestion, transfer, processing, download, search, filtering, indexing, and content-preview workflows for large files and structured or unstructured data.
• Implement authentication, authorization, role- and attribute-based access controls, audit logging, secure file access, data provenance, metadata, versioning, and sensitive-data handling.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability, observability, and production troubleshooting across application, database, storage, network, and deployment environments.
• Lead architecture, technical planning, testing, release readiness, documentation, code reviews, mentoring, and collaboration with product, platform, cybersecurity, and government stakeholders.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance and ability to maintain it throughout employment.
• At least seven years of professional software development experience, including substantial hands-on front-end and back-end development.
• Experience as a technical lead, senior developer, or principal contributor responsible for technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and production delivery.
• Proficiency with a modern JavaScript or TypeScript framework such as React, Angular, or Vue, including component design, state management, API integration, and responsive interfaces.
• Strong backend experience with Python, Node.js, Java, C#, or a comparable language and framework, including production REST APIs and service integrations.
• Experience with relational or nonrelational databases, data modeling, query optimization, and application data-access patterns.
• Experience building applications that ingest, store, retrieve, transfer, or process files and datasets, including large-object performance, background processing, and error recovery.
• Hands-on AWS experience involving storage, compute, identity, logging, or networking services.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, secure API design, input validation, secrets handling, and auditability for sensitive or access-controlled data.
• Working experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, Agile delivery, production troubleshooting, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting SOCOM, Special Operations Forces, or another Department of War mission partner.
• AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes or Amazon EKS, infrastructure as code, and DoD-authorized delivery experience.
• Experience with data repositories, asset libraries, content management, collaborative knowledge systems, large-scale ingestion and search, S3, managed databases, indexing, event-driven processing, messaging, or asynchronous orchestration.
• Experience with video and image previews, metadata pipelines, geospatial or technical-file viewers, or natural-language search.
• Familiarity with DODIN requirements, Risk Management Framework processes, secure delivery, and DoD Impact Level 4 or higher.
• Experience with open APIs, reusable components, documented data contracts, and modular architectures.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States with periodic mission-partner travel.
• Work supports federal missions and requires approved facilities for classified activities.
• Hands-on collaboration with product, platform, cybersecurity, mission, and government stakeholders.

Hiring process

• Applicants must meet U.S. Government security-clearance eligibility requirements; only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• hirify.global will consider applicants who already hold a security clearance or are eligible to obtain one.