Full Stack Development Lead

Halvik Corp delivers a wide range of services to 13 executive agencies and 15 independent agencies. Halvik is a highly successful WOB business with more than 50 prime contracts and 500 professionals delivering Digital Services Advanced Analytics Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Cyber Security and Cutting-Edge Technology across the US Government. Be a part of something special!

Position Overview
The Development Lead provides technical leadership delivery oversight and day-to-day coordination for a full stack development team supporting Java- Angular- and AWS-based applications. This role combines hands-on technical contribution with leadership responsibilities including guiding design decisions coordinating development efforts mentoring team members and helping ensure timely high-quality delivery of software solutions. The Development Lead partners closely with product owners architects QA operations and other stakeholders to align technical execution with business priorities engineering standards and operational expectations.

Core Responsibilities

• Strategic Execution: Translate business priorities into actionable development work and help ensure the team delivers against committed goals. Lead application architecture service design integration patterns and technical tradeoff discussions.
• Operational Oversight: Plan coordinate and track development activities to support timely completion of features enhancements defect resolution and technical improvements. Coordinate release readiness deployment support incident response and root cause analysis.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product owners business stakeholders QA DevOps security and operations teams to ensure alignment and delivery success. Support Agile ceremonies including sprint planning backlog refinement standups demos and retrospectives.
• Technical Performance: Contribute directly to the codebase (Java backend services REST APIs Angular front-end features database integration and AWS components). Provide guidance on Angular architecture component design UI integration maintainability and front-end best practices. Maintain high standards for code quality testing security and performance through code reviews.
• Team Guidance & Leadership: Mentor junior mid and senior developers through coaching feedback and professional growth support. Serve as the technical anchor for the team remove blockers and manage delivery risks.
• Process & Documentation: Establish and reinforce team development standards coding conventions runbooks and technical documentation while identifying continuous process improvements.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: Minimum of 810 years of professional software development experience including substantial experience in full stack development and technical leadership.
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of Java Spring Boot RESTful APIs SQL/relational databases Angular and AWS services. Strong experience with Git CI/CD pipelines automated testing (JUnit Mockito Jasmine Karma) and monitoring tools (CloudWatch Splunk).
• Compliance: Must meet USPTO/IDE requirements.
• Certifications: No Certification required

Preferred Expertise

• Demonstrated success leading a development team in a Java Angular and AWS environment within Federal Contracting or enterprise/regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Data Hibernate JPA microservices containerized deployments (Docker ECS EKS) and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation Terraform AWS CDK).
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery methods and secure application development practices.
• Strong analytical decision-making and problem-solving capabilities along with excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.