Lead Full-Stack Developer

LMI

. Lead hands-on development of a secure, user-facing application for ingestion, management, discovery, sharing, and reuse of large mission datasets and digital assets .

Posted 11/4/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $122,210 - $211,318 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in full-stack application development, including secure API design, cloud integrations, and data management workflows. Proficient in leading technical teams, mentoring developers, and ensuring high-quality software delivery in compliance with security standards.

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Active Secret Security ClearanceFull-Stack DevelopmentAPI Design and IntegrationAWS Deployment and ManagementTechnical Leadership and Mentoring

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Hard Skills

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactAngularVuePythonNode.jsJavaC#Relational and Nonrelational Databases

Soft Skills

Technical CommunicationEngineering JudgmentCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Amazon Web Services (AWS)GitCI/CDContainersAgile Software Delivery

Industry Keywords

SOCOMDepartment of WarDODIN RequirementsRisk Management FrameworkDoD Impact Level 4+

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSCloudCyber SecurityJavaJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactTypeScriptVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead hands-on development of a secure, user-facing application for ingestion, management, discovery, sharing, and reuse of large mission datasets and digital assets
Design, build, review, test, and maintain full-stack features across responsive web interfaces, backend services, APIs, data stores, and cloud integrations
Guide project-based organization, asset metadata, user profiles, file and dataset versioning, activity history, comments, saved items, and feedback capabilities
Engineer scalable file upload, ingestion, transfer, processing, and download workflows for large volumes of images, video, documents, technical files, and structured or unstructured data
Implement and optimize search, filtering, content previews, indexing, and data discovery workflows
Develop secure API contracts and integrations with object storage, metadata catalogs, search services, identity providers, mission applications, and enterprise systems
Apply authentication, authorization, role- or attribute-based access controls, audit logging, data handling rules, and secure file access
Coordinate with data engineering, platform, and cybersecurity teams on data provenance, metadata, version history, security markings, and sensitive-content handling
Improve application performance, reliability, scalability, and observability; diagnose issues across databases, backend services, object storage, web interfaces, networks, and deployment environments
Translate user requirements into technical designs, backlog items, acceptance criteria, and production-quality releases with product managers and UI/UX designers
Lead technical planning, architecture decisions, code reviews, automated and integration testing, defect resolution, and release readiness
Integrate secure application delivery with source control, CI/CD, containerization, and DevSecOps pipelines
Mentor developers, establish coding standards, manage technical dependencies, and maintain documented application components
Engage operational users and government stakeholders through demonstrations, feedback sessions, and testing
Maintain architecture diagrams, API specifications, data models, development guidance, deployment documentation, and technical decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active Secret security clearance, with the ability to maintain the clearance throughout employment
Minimum of seven years of professional software development experience, including substantial hands-on work across both front-end and back-end application development
Experience serving as a technical lead, senior developer, or principal contributor responsible for technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and delivery of production software
Proficiency with a modern JavaScript or TypeScript front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue
Strong back-end development experience using Python, Node.js, Java, C#, or a comparable server-side language and framework
Experience designing and working with relational or nonrelational databases, data models, query optimization, and application data-access patterns
Experience building applications that ingest, store, retrieve, transfer, or process files and datasets, including large objects, background processing, and error recovery
Hands-on experience building, deploying, or supporting web applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secure API design, input validation, secrets handling, and auditability
Working experience with Git-based source control, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and Agile software delivery
Ability to troubleshoot production issues across front-end code, backend services, data stores, cloud services, and application interfaces
Strong technical communication, engineering judgment, documentation, and collaboration skills
Only US Citizens are eligible for a security clearance; applicants must meet U.S. Government security-clearance eligibility requirements
Desired: SOCOM, Special Operations Forces, or Department of War mission-partner experience
Desired: AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes or Amazon EKS, infrastructure as code, and DoD-authorized environments
Desired: data repositories, asset libraries, content management, collaborative knowledge systems, or large-scale ingestion and search applications
Desired: Amazon S3, managed databases, search/indexing technologies, event-driven processing, messaging, and asynchronous job orchestration
Desired: video/image previews, content metadata pipelines, geospatial or technical-file viewers, or natural-language search
Desired: DODIN requirements, Risk Management Framework, secure application delivery, and DoD Impact Level 4+
Desired: open APIs, reusable components, documented data contracts, and modular software architectures
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline (desired)