Role: Full Stack Software Engineer
Client: Defense-Aerospace
Hourly Rate: up to $100/hr (W2, non-benefited)
Length: 6-month contract
Location: Orlando, FL
Clearance: Candidate must have the Ability to Obtain Secret Clearance. Not needed to start.
Description:
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Design and implement a scalable platform that enables advanced analytics and AI driven development acceleration.
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Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across all platform domains, incorporating archival, disaster recovery, and backup strategies.
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Define and publish robust APIs that expose data and services to front end clients and third party consumers.
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Develop responsive UI components using a modern React framework (e.g., Next.js, Shadcn UI Kit) to deliver dashboards, visualizations, and interactive data views.
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Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for automated testing, linting, and deployment to both cloud based and air gapped environments.
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Integrate third party services such as email/SMS notifications, and learning management standards (SCORM, xAPI, CMI5).
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Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end to end tests to protect against regressions and maintain high code quality.
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Document APIs, data models, and deployment procedures clearly to facilitate cross team collaboration.
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Leverage AI (e.g., Claude, other LLMs) as a core development assistant to accelerate coding, refactoring, test generation, and design validation.
Required Skills:
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6 or more years of delivering full stack software solutions on complex, data intensive programs.
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Version Control & CI/CD: Experience with version control software, preferably GitLab (repos, merge requests, pipelines).
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Software Fundamentals: Strong grasp of design patterns, automated testing, continuous integration, and code quality practices.
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Data Technologies: Familiarity with relational databases, messaging services, REST APIs, and object storage.
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UI/UX Design: Ability to design and implement responsive user interfaces and dashboards.
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Domain expertise in building end to end full stack solutions that address data flow, security, archival, and disaster recovery concerns.
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Strategic vision to design platforms that enable AI augmented development, ensuring that the solution remains adaptable as AI capabilities evolve.
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Ability to leverage AI tools (Cline AI Plugin for VSCode, generative code assistants) to enhance productivity, code quality, and architectural validation, reducing reliance on niche technical specialties
Desired Skills:
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Agile methodology experience (Scrum, Kanban) and participation in cross functional Agile teams.
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Advanced DevOps toolset knowledge (Ansible, Nexus, GitLab Runner, Harbor).
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Proficiency in React, Next.js, Node.js, Shadcn UI Kit, FastAPI, and modern front end ecosystems.
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Experience with Apache Superset/Trino for cross platform data querying and analytics.
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Strong scripting abilities (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
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Prior exposure to Turnkey training or learning architectures.
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Experience with Kubernetes and cloud/air gapped deployment models
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Experience with integrating email/SMS notifications
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Experience with learning management standards (SCORM, xAPI, CMI5).
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Emphasis on Vision & AI Driven Design
Required Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with supplemental experience (e.g. Aerospace Engineering with experience in software development).
If interested in learning more about this position, please email your resume to
[email protected] and I will call back with more information.
