Full Stack Developer

Spatial Front, Inc.; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Spatial Front, Inc. is seeking a Full Stack Developer to design, build, and modernize secure, high-availability systems in a federal Agile environment. You will work on APIs, UI, data integrations, and AI-enabled features, leveraging Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS services.

The role emphasizes designing microservices, serverless architectures, and secure coding practices to deliver scalable solutions with reliable performance and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• Five or more years of backend or full stack application development experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, ECS or Fargate, CloudFormation, S3, SNS, and SQS.
• Experience designing microservices, serverless applications, asynchronous workflows, and event driven integrations.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including data modeling and performance tuning.
• Experience with automated testing, Git based development, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, logging, API protection, vulnerability remediation, and secure coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full stack features, APIs, microservices, and event-driven integrations.
• Build and support AWS cloud native solutions using Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate, S3, and related services.
• Develop secure data solutions using PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Modernize legacy services for AWS while preserving data integrity and performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, architects, QA, DevSecOps, and developers throughout lifecycle.
• Create tests, participate in code reviews, and support CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

JavaScript

REST APIs

SPA framework

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

ECS/Fargate

CloudFormation

S3

SNS

SQS

Aurora PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Docker

CloudWatch

Job description

Description

Spatial Front, Inc. a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree, is seeking a Full Stack Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have strong Node.js, TypeScript, modern web application,

and AWS engineering expertise. This position will build and modernize secure, high availability systems and services, APIs, user interfaces, and data integrations in an Agile federal environment and will support upcoming AI and intelligent automation initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full stack features, responsive user interfaces, APIs, microservices, and event driven integrations using Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and approved web frameworks.
• Build and support AWS cloud native solutions using services such as Lambda, API Gateway, ECS and Fargate, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, and infrastructure as code.
• Develop secure and efficient data solutions using Aurora PostgreSQL or PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including data migration, indexing, query optimization, and integration patterns.
• Modernize legacy services and applications for AWS while maintaining operational continuity, data integrity, performance, and backward compatibility.
• Strong, recent experience with Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, REST APIs, and a modern single page application framework.
• Contribute to planned AI enabled features by integrating approved models and services with secure data access, evaluation, traceability, human review, and responsible AI guardrails.
• Experience integrating generative AI or machine learning capabilities using AWS Bedrock or comparable managed services.
• Create automated unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and support CI/CD pipelines, release validation, production monitoring, troubleshooting, and defect resolution.
• Collaborate with program stakeholders, product managers, architects, business analysts, QA engineers, DevSecOps engineers, and developers throughout discovery, design, delivery, and operations.
• Improve application availability, scalability, observability, accessibility, and performance using metrics, logs, traces, and proactive engineering practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• Five or more years of backend or full stack application development experience.
• Hands on experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, ECS or Fargate, CloudFormation, S3, SNS, and SQS.
• Experience designing microservices, serverless applications, asynchronous workflows, and event driven integrations.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including data modeling and performance tuning.
• Experience with automated testing, Git based development, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, logging, API protection, vulnerability remediation, and secure coding practices.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting DOT or other federal applications and compliance environments.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating services or databases to AWS.
• Experience with Docker, container orchestration, CloudWatch, distributed tracing, and operational observability.
• Experience with Python and data processing or analytics workflows.
• Knowledge of retrieval augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, prompt design, model evaluation, responsible AI controls, and human in the loop workflows.
• Experience with accessibility standards, including Section 508 and USWDS based application development.
• AWS Developer, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, AI Practitioner, or Machine Learning certification.

Additional Information:

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be US Citizen and/or Current Green Card Holder.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.
• Public Trust background investigations can take approximately four to eight weeks and requires fingerprinting.

Other Information:

• The salary for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 annually
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal-opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.