Full Stack Developer

About the role

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Full Stack Developer to join our team. The role is remote and is located within the VA department. This full-time position requires a minimum of 8 years of professional experience with a strong focus on back-end development in Java and/or NodeJS, and 8+ years of experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs in healthcare or enterprise environments.

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

Requirements

• 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
• Proficient 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
• A strong attention to detail, especially around data accuracy and fidelity for healthcare records
• Able to conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required for this position
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Public Trust (MBI) security clearance required

Benefits

Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply!

Pay

$85,389 - $116,975

Schedule

Full Time