Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Job Description

GliaCell is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer on one of our subcontracts. This is a full-time position offering the opportunity to support a U.S. Government customer. The mission is to provide technical expertise that assists in sustaining critical mission-related software and systems to a large government contract.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains full stack applications in collaboration with business leaders and AI/ML engineers providing custom media operations.
• Partners with AI/ML engineers, senior stakeholders, and business users to thoroughly understand complex operational challenges and translate those needs into robust, technical solutions.
• Rapidly prototypes and pilots complex, cutting-edge capabilities to meet customers' ever-evolving needs.
• Optimizes system usability and workflow efficiency by collaborating with end-users to define and refine ideal user interaction paths that reduce mission operation friction.
• Cultivates an understanding of latest technological developments in the AI/ML landscape and seeks opportunities to operationalize them.

Key Requirements

• Possess an active or rein-statable TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Professional/Education experience: 8 years & Bachelors of Science Degree, or 4 additional years in place of a BS Degree.
• Works well independently as well as on a team.
• Strong communication skills.

Required Skills

• Proven ability to take a project from initial concept/scoping through iterative development, rigorous testing, and final deployment.
• Highly self-directed, with experience decomposing work into features and actions, with minimal oversight.
• Experience conducting direct user research, iterating on new capabilities based on user feedback, and solving real-world operational pain points.
• Extensive experience building applications in JavaScript including node.js, TypeScript, and UI frameworks/libraries such as React and Material UI.
• Experience with Linux, especially Ubuntu and Amazon Linux.
• Experience with Docker.
• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB.
• Experience managing CI/CD build pipelines within GitLab.

Desired Skills

• Experience with Java/Spring Boot and Python/Flask.
• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer, or general experience with managing software infrastructure in AWS.
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, or general experience with managing an application running on Kubernetes.
• Experience with multimedia and 3D modeling tools such Cinema4D, Blender, Unreal Engine, Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc.
• Basic literacy in AI and knowledge of ML process.
• Experience using code-assist tools such as OpenCode, Copilot, etc.