Senior Systems Engineer - Angular & API Lead (Remote)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer (Angular) for a 100% U.S.-based remote role supporting VA initiatives. Core work spans cloud-based dashboard development, API design, and data integration of healthcare records.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software development with back-end focus (Java/NodeJS), hands-on Angular experience, and strong API/API contract skills. Security clearance (Public Trust) is preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with a strong back-end focus (Java and/or NodeJS).
• 8+ years of experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs in healthcare or enterprise environments.
• Hands-on Angular experience with API integration and 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 and collaborative workflows.
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit, Jest, or equivalent).
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with stakeholders and cross-functional engineers to define API requirements.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and JIRA.
• U.S. Citizenship required for this position.

Responsibilities

• Build, support, and migrate a cloud-based Web Dashboard application that processes healthcare EDI transactions.
• Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs in Java and/or NodeJS to retrieve, transform, and serve EDI healthcare records.
• Integrate with internal platform APIs and data services to deliver live and historical EDI data reliably and performantly.
• Support and contribute to an Angular-based dashboard front-end and ensure 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 in code reviews.
• 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.
• Apply and promote best software engineering practices within an Agile framework.
• Use Git and GitHub for version control, branching, pull requests, and collaborative development.

Skills

Angular front-end UI

Java back-end development

NodeJS

RESTful APIs design

AWS

Git/GitHub

TypeScript

Docker

Kubernetes

API Gateway/Lambda

JUnit/Jest

Agile/Scrum/JIRA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

Docker

ECS

EKS

AWS

API Gateway

Lambda

S3

Kubernetes

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) seeks a Senior Systems Engineer (Angular) for a 100% U.S.-based remote role supporting VA initiatives. Core work spans cloud-based dashboard development, API design, and data integration of healthcare records.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software development with back-end focus (Java/NodeJS), hands-on Angular experience, and strong API/API contract skills. Security clearance (Public Trust) is preferred.