Full Stack Developer

About the role

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Full Stack Developer for a full-time position. The role is remote and located within the VA department. The position requires at least 8 years of professional experience with a strong back-end focus (Java and/or NodeJS), 8+ years of experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs in healthcare or enterprise environments, and U.S. Citizenship is required for this specific opportunity.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Build, support, and migrate a cloud-based Web Dashboard application that processes healthcare Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions
• Design, build, and maintain Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces (RESTful APIs) in Java and/or NodeJS that retrieve, transform, and serve EDI healthcare records
• Integrate with internal platform APIs, EDI processing pipelines, and data services to deliver live and historical EDI transaction data reliably and performantly
• Support and contribute to an Angular-based dashboard front-end – consuming APIs, building or maintaining components, and ensuring data is surfaced accurately to business and clinical users
• Collaborate with back-end C#/.Net and AWS data engineers to define clean API contracts and ensure reliable data delivery across services
• Write clean, testable, well-documented code and participate actively in code review
• Perform unit and integration testing across back-end services and API layers
• Support deployment, monitoring, and performance of back-end services in production on AWS
• Use Git and GitHub for version control, branching, pull requests, and collaborative development
• Use Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and JIRA
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Have strong communication skills and an ability to work with stakeholders and cross-functional engineers to define and refine API requirements
• Work independently and as part of a distributed team
• Have strong attention to detail, especially around data accuracy and fidelity for healthcare records
• Have formal education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Be able to obtain a government-granted security clearance

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience with Java and/or NodeJS back-end integration work and Angular front-end User Interface (UI)
• An understanding of structured healthcare data
• Proven experience building back-end services that serve structured EDI or healthcare data to front-end application
• Hands-on Angular experience with the ability to integrate APIs and contribute to front-end components
• Strong back-end development experience in Java and JavaScript/TypeScript/NodeJS – API design, data transformation, error handling, and performance
• Experience with Angular or another Modern front-end framework
• Proven ability to build RESTful APIs that consume and transform structured data (XML, JSON)
• Working knowledge of Angular, including components, services, and API integration
• Hands-on Cloud (AWS/Azure) experience, including API Gateway, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, or related services
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and collaborative workflows
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit, Jest, or equivalent)
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work with stakeholders and cross-functional engineers to define and refine API requirements
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and JIRA
• Able to work independently and as part of a distributed team
• Able to work with remote U.S. based teams (Not Offshore teams)
• Able to obtain a government-granted security clearance

Professional Certifications

None required

Desired Experience

• Familiarity with Electronic Data Interchange X.12 (EDI) Medical Claims X.12 medical claims (837, 834, 277, etc)
• Familiarity with web document submission processes
• Experience in a high paced DevOps environment
• Front-end development experience
• Familiarity with healthcare payer/Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations
• Knowledge of HIPAA compliance requirements in API and web applications
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (Section 508/WCAG 2.1) for government-facing applications
• Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Familiarity with C#/.Net back-end services for cross-team integration touchpoints
• Experience working with remote U.S. based teams (Not Offshore teams)