Senior Full Stack Engineer

Company: Talent Software Services
Location: Reston
Posted on: April 26, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Full Stack Engineer

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Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Senior Full Stack Engineer for a contract position that can be worked 100% remotely. The opportunity will be eight months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary: As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Test Day Toolkit team, you are a leader, collaborator, and innovator. You have a strong interest in understanding and improving products for our key customers. You relish the opportunity to bring your ideas and your love of coding to support, enhance and define the future of applications that will be used by thousands of state, district, and school administrators across the country. You are not shy about taking on new work or utilizing technologies you may not have previously utilized while eagerly contributing to all phases of software engineering, including requirements definition and analysis, application design, coding, coaching, testing, deploying, and support.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
Design & Implementation (75%)Design, implement & test high-quality software using the latest technologies with a focus on building component-based, cost-effective, scalable, and secure solutions using design patterns to improve collaboration with other microservices/apps and promoting code reuse
Maintain the highest engineering standards in collaboration with product owners, architects, and stakeholders, in support of our systems and services
Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification
Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps.

Team Operations & Success (15%)Participate in Agile SCRUM ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo) and contribute to team deliverables
Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
Assist in the resolution of production issues
Adhere to development standards and security policies and procedures
Adopt the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practice of rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code based on the team's DevOps model
Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the Agile team in a poly-skilled development environment

Software Solutioning & Design (10%)Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the customer's business processes and operations
Work closely with Solutions Architect, Lead Engineer and Data Leads evaluating feature requests, providing level-of-effort estimates and contribute to sprint planning
Conduct and participates in peer code and design reviews


Qualifications:Ideally, 6+ years of professional software development experience
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with JavaScript/Typescript, React, Node.js
Strong knowledge of the AWS cloud platform and experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, OpenSearch, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, DynamoDB
Experience provisioning and managing Cloud infrastructure as code using AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, and/or AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills using data to inform decisions and actions
Experience working in an Agile / Scrum development environment with an ethos of continuous improvement
Experience in using Playwright, Artillery, Jest etc.
Ability and enthusiasm to learn new and innovative technologies
Proven track record of coaching and mentoring less experienced teammates in new technologies
Differentiators
Strong experience with version control using Git, build automation using Webpack, continuous integration using AWS Code Pipeline or similar, and test automation
Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency, and drive
Independent, proactive, and able to deliver high-quality code
Excellent communication and collaboration skills - working cross-functionally with other engineers and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
Enthusiastic about innovating and learning
Bachelor's degree and/or other advanced degree(s)
Relevant AWS or other professional certifications


If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

Providing consulting opportunities to TALENTed people since 1987, we offer a host of opportunities, including contract, contract to hire, and permanent placement. Let's talk!

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