Senior Full Stack Engineer (Heavy Backend / AI-Assisted)

Job Summary

Fully onsite in McLean VA location: McLean, Virginia
job type: Contract
salary: $70 - 90 per hour
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

• End-to-end software development - including analysis, planning, architecture, design, development, automated testing, deployment, and maintenance using industry best practices and security standards.
• Performance optimization - analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions to enhance application efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborative solution delivery - partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements, leverage proof of concepts for technical decisions, and implement solutions with cross-functional teams.
• Production support and maintenance - support applications across environments, resolve critical issues, and fulfill ad-hoc requests to ensure seamless business operations.

Qualifications

• Required Experience & Education: 5-7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Candidate Should Have/be: Strong analytical skills. Be able to reason with and communicate ideas they bring to the table. Be open minded for others' ideas. A motivated team player.
• Experience: Experience using at least one Coding Agent enabled IDE (e.g. VSCode, Amazon Kiro) and experience working with AI Coding Agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex).
• Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Databases, Very Good understanding of RDBMS (e.g. MS SQL or PostgreSQL). Write advanced SQL queries (thorough understanding of JOINs). Performance tuning of SQLs. Strong proficiency in below programming tools, languages & Frameworks: Proficiency working with Docker containers. Understanding of the use of containers in the development process. Understanding of application lifecycle management. Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline (e.g. JIRA, Jenkins) to deploy applications. Java 8 (or above), I/O, Multithreading, Collections, Generics, Lambda REST API Web Services, GraphQL API query language. Spring Core, MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Sprint Data (JPA), Dependency Injection, DAO (Data Access Object), JTA, JDBC HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, Angular 9 or above. Apache Tomcat, Jetty Server. Maven, Gradle, Junit/ Mockito, Cucumber. Design Patterns like MVC, Singleton, Session, Facade, Factory, DAO (Data Access Object), DTO XML technologies and XML parsers. JSON technologies ORM framework - Hibernate Streaming technology - Kafka AWS EKS

Benefits

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.