Senior Software Developer

About the role

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Senior Software 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
• Work independently and as part of a distributed team
• Show strong attention to detail, especially around data accuracy and fidelity for healthcare records

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)
• Working knowledge of Angular, including components, services, and API integration
• Hands-on Cloud (AWS/Azure) experience, including API Gateway, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, or related services
• 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
• A strong attention to detail, especially around data accuracy and fidelity for healthcare records
• Able to conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Experience working with remote U.S. based teams (Not Offshore teams)

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
• Background check

Other Notes

• This is a 100% U.S. based remote position. However, candidates from CA, CO, IL, MN, NJ, NY, OR, or WA will not be considered
• This is a W-2 position
• All interviews will be conducted on Microsoft Teams with your camera on; there will be no exceptions
• Applications with inconsistencies will not be considered
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be able to obtain a government-granted security clearance
• Individuals may also be subject to a background investigation including, but not limited to criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness
• Syms Strategic Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer