Lead Full Stack Developer

About the role

The Lead Full Stack Developer will lead a Small Team (6-8 FTEs) of Full Stack Developers and Test Automation Engineers. They will collaborate with a Business Analyst and Product Lead to plan and execute agile development.

Responsibilities

• Lead an agile team of developers and test automation engineers and grow them into a high-performance team.
• Hands-on role with extensive involvement in the full development lifecycle, including designing, developing, implementing, testing, maintenance and enhancement of products.
• Leverage AI tools and technologies during development lifecycle to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Accountable for the quality of the product delivered and team performance.
• Provide technical direction and mentor teams of resources in all aspects of technical delivery incorporating efficient workflows, frameworks, templates, design and code best practices to produce reusable and maintainable code.
• Implement the best practices of Agile and DevSecOps to deliver quality products predictably and consistently.
• Evaluate functional/business and technical requirements and identify gaps/risks.
• Review proposed new feature development to validate feasibility and estimate the development work.
• Provide validation of proposed technical architectures and solutions.
• Monitor and analyze product performance in production, while looking for ways to optimize and scale existing solutions.
• Evaluate product and process metrics (such as velocity, productivity, quality, usability) and implement process improvements.
• Reinforce strategies, standards, and architecture are consistent and well-integrated across different product teams by creating and engaging in communities of practice.
• Keep abreast of the emerging tools and technologies and make recommendations for relevant platform and technologies.
• Recommend senior management on improvement areas.
• Help application developers to adopt new platforms through documentation, training, and mentoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of full-lifecycle application development experience and at least 3 years of experience using the technologies listed below and AWS cloud platform.
• Experience in architecting and designing solutions and decomposing them into modules for development.
• 5+ years of experience using Agile, DevSecOps, Test driven development and other lean methodologies.
• Implementation experience on using Agile project management tools (JIRA), and CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing and deployment.
• Experience developing cloud native solutions according to industry best practices.
• Extensive hands-on experience in JavaScript (React.js, Node.js, modern JavaScript libraries - ES6 - 2015 and later versions), API development (GraphQL/RESTful), messaging (Kafka, AWS kinesis or others), serverless application development using AWS Lambda, SQL and NoSQL databases, AWS services (Lambda, S3, Dynamo, Kinesis, RDS, Redshift and several others).
• Strong experience in database queries and working preferably with MySQL.
• Good understanding of AI models , Agentic development and RAG concepts.
• Experience in using AI tools, e.g., Copilot, AWS Bedrock, etc. to generate code for development and automation testing.
• Experience in establishing source code management best practices (branching, repository structure, peer review process, documentation) to manage a code base as if it were open source.
• Experience in establishing release management processes and standards.
• Deep understanding of industry patterns for application architecture and integration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present and comprehend technical details clearly.
• Ability to demonstrate product demos to users and stakeholders, collect feedback and implement improvements.
• Ability to mentor junior resources, assist in technical troubleshooting, peer review the team member’s work products and validate.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of full-lifecycle application development experience and at least 3 years of experience using the technologies listed below and AWS cloud platform.
• Experience in architecting and designing solutions and decomposing them into modules for development.
• 5+ years of experience using Agile, DevSecOps, Test driven development and other lean methodologies.
• Implementation experience on using Agile project management tools (JIRA), and CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing and deployment.
• Experience developing cloud native solutions according to industry best practices.
• Extensive hands-on experience in JavaScript (React.js, Node.js, modern JavaScript libraries - ES6 - 2015 and later versions), API development (GraphQL/RESTful), messaging (Kafka, AWS kinesis or others), serverless application development using AWS Lambda, SQL and NoSQL databases, AWS services (Lambda, S3, Dynamo, Kinesis, RDS, Redshift and several others).
• Strong experience in database queries and working preferably with MySQL.
• Good understanding of AI models , Agentic development and RAG concepts.
• Experience in using AI tools, e.g., Copilot, AWS Bedrock, etc. to generate code for development and automation testing.
• Experience in establishing source code management best practices (branching, repository structure, peer review process, documentation) to manage a code base as if it were open source.
• Experience in establishing release management processes and standards.
• Deep understanding of industry patterns for application architecture and integration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present and comprehend technical details clearly.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued clearance is required.