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 focus on back-end development using Java and/or NodeJS, and experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs in healthcare or enterprise environments.

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

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)
• 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

Professional Certifications

None required

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Citizenship Requirement

U.S. Citizenship required for this specific opportunity

Security Clearance Requirements

Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI) clearance

Background Investigation

• Criminal history
• Employment and education verification
• Drug testing
• Creditworthiness

Equal Opportunity Employer

SSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.