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 is a full-time position with a salary range of $85,389 - $116,975. Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply.

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 a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust (MBI) security clearance
• Pass a government security investigation and meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information
• Have a 100% U.S. based remote position
• Be able to work independently and as part of a distributed team
• Have experience in a high-paced DevOps environment
• Have experience in healthcare payer/Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations
• Have familiarity with HIPAA compliance requirements in API and web applications
• Have experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Have experience working with remote U.S. based teams (Not Offshore teams)

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
• 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)
• Have formal education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust (MBI) security clearance
• Pass a government security investigation and meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information
• Have a 100% U.S. based remote position
• Be able to work independently and as part of a distributed team
• Have experience in a high-paced DevOps environment
• Have experience in healthcare payer/Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) systems, clearinghouses, or pharmacy operations
• Have familiarity with HIPAA compliance requirements in API and web applications
• Have experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Have experience working with remote U.S. based teams (Not Offshore teams)