Software Engineer / Technical Delivery Lead

HIGH BRIDGE & CO.; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

HIGH BRIDGE & CO. is seeking a Software Engineer / Technical Delivery Lead to drive hands-on software development and lead technical delivery for a federal project. The role is based in Vienna, VA, with a Hybrid work arrangement and close collaboration with PM, architecture, QA, DevOps, and client teams.

You will define deployment approaches, coordinate production delivery, and lead features, performance improvements, and bug fixes in response to user feedback.

Qualifications

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust determination.
• 5+ years of professional software development and production delivery experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with deployment, environment configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong ownership, prioritization, and decision-making under tight timelines.
• Able to collaborate with cross-functional and client teams and communicate risks clearly.

Responsibilities

• Assess deployment model, dependencies, interfaces, and data needs of the product suite.
• Learn client development, test, and production environments and deployment procedures.
• Identify gaps to run successfully in the client environment and plan transitions.
• Guide transition to production-ready implementations and client DevOps pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex application issues and support release-readiness activities.
• Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to deploy AWS services for delivery.
• Contribute to development tasks, estimates, code reviews, and integrations.
• Develop and review web, API, mobile, service, and business-logic components.
• Communicate risks, decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Skills

Angular

TypeScript

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS/SCSS

RxJS

REST APIs

AWS

Swift

Kotlin

SQL

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related

Tools

Express.js

OpenAPI

JSON Schema

Kafka

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

PostgreSQL

Redis

S3

Job description

Our client is an IT consultancy serving government and commercial clients, providing software products, IT services, and management services. They are now looking to add to their team and are looking to hire a "Software Engineer / Technical Delivery Lead . This role will be based out of Vienna, VA, and is Hybrid.

About The Role

The Software Engineer / Technical Delivery Lead will provide hands‑on software development and drive technical delivery for a suite of applications supporting a federal project. The role will assess the current applications and target environment, define and lead an executable deployment approach, resolve issues that could prevent UAT readiness, and deliver new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes in response to user and client feedback. The successful candidate will work closely with project management, architecture, business analysis, UX, quality assurance, DevOps, infrastructure, and other contributors to coordinate implementation and production delivery.

Responsibilities

• Assess the current deployment model, dependencies, configuration, interfaces, data needs, and known limitations of the current product suite.
• Learn the client's development, test, and production environments, including deployment procedures, configuration boundaries, and operational constraints.
• Identify gaps between the applications' current state and the conditions required to run successfully in the client environment.
• Guide the transition from initial application states to production‑ready implementations and to client‑controlled DevOps environment and delivery pipelines.
• Troubleshoot complex application and integration issues and support release‑readiness activities.
• Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to configure, deploy, and support AWS services required for application delivery and operation.
• Contribute directly to development tasks, technical estimates, code reviews, dependency resolution, and integration activities.
• Develop, maintain, and review web, API, mobile, service, and business‑logic components.
• Communicate technical risks, decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Required Technology Proficiency

• Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, RxJS, and responsive web application development.
• Node.js and TypeScript service development, including Express or an equivalent framework.
• REST/JSON APIs, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, API validation, authentication, authorization, and integration testing.
• Core AWS services, including Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora PostgreSQL/RDS, MSK (Kafka), ElastiCache for Redis, S3, and EventBridge.
• Native iOS and Android application development using Swift and Kotlin.
• SQL proficiency and hands‑on experience designing and optimizing relational databases.
• Secure software development practices, including input validation, dependency and vulnerability management, secrets handling, secure coding review, and remediation of security findings.
• Git‑based DevOps practices, including source control, pull‑request workflows, branching, code reviews, automated build and deployment pipelines, environment configuration across development, test, UAT, and production, and release management.

Preferred Technology Familiarity

• Authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, mTLS, and role‑or claims‑based access controls.
• AI‑assisted development and productivity tools such as Codex, with human review and validation of generated code and related artifacts.

Required Qualifications

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust determination; an existing favorable Public Trust determination is preferred.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including experience with production application delivery.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or an Associate Degree with two additional years of experience.
• Hands‑on experience with production application deployment, environment configuration, dependency resolution, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Strong ownership, prioritization, and decision‑making under a short delivery timeline.
• Ability to work effectively with cross‑functional and client teams and communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies, frameworks, and tools to solve unfamiliar technical challenges and meet evolving project needs.