Lead Full Stack Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Lead Full Stack Engineer to lead development of secure APIs dashboards reports award views signals and AI-assisted workflows for a Federal data analytics and AI modernization initiative.

The team will deliver a secure scalable platform that integrates structured and unstructured data provides data visualization and traceable AI-assisted analytics and gives examiners centralized tools for search review monitoring and decision support. The platform will support professional judgment and will not replace authoritative agency financial or grants-management systems or execute financial transactions.

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on development for a full-stack engineering team delivering secure Federal applications.
• Design develop and maintain backend services REST APIs data-access layers and enterprise applications using Java and/.
• Build responsive reusable front-end components dashboards reports award views signals and AI-assisted workflows.
• Integrate open-source AI and machine learning models into secure applications and workflows including model-serving inference prompt/workflow integration and evaluation as appropriate.
• Develop solutions that combine structured and unstructured data to support search analytics monitoring and AI-assisted decision support.
• Design secure scalable application architectures that can operate in on-premises hybrid or controlled Federal environments.
• Establish and enforce coding standards code-review practices automated testing CI/CD processes and release-readiness controls.
• Implement secure application capabilities including authentication role-based access control (RBAC) audit logging data protection and accessibility.
• Collaborate with OMB pilot agencies product owners data engineers AI/ML practitioners and other multidisciplinary technical teams through iterative development and user testing.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and make architectural and implementation decisions that support scalability maintainability security and performance.
• Produce clear technical documentation supporting Government operation maintenance transition and future expansion.
• Ensure development practices align with Federal security privacy accessibility records-management and Government data-ownership requirements.
• Support delivery of the MVP by the end of Month 6 within the seven-month period of performance.

• 7 years of experience in full-stack software engineering including experience developing and supporting enterprise applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and//C# in enterprise application development.
• Experience designing and building secure web applications REST APIs backend services data-access layers and reusable front-end components.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into software applications including experience working with open-source AI/ML models or frameworks.
• Experience with modern software development practices including Git automated testing CI/CD code reviews and Agile development.
• Experience establishing or enforcing software engineering standards and development best practices.
• Knowledge of application security concepts including authentication RBAC audit logging secure coding accessibility and application performance.
• Experience working with relational databases and developing applications that consume and transform structured and unstructured data.
• Ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with architecture coding troubleshooting and delivery.
• Strong communication documentation problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret eligibility as required for all contractor personnel supporting the effort.
• Active Top Secret clearance highly preferred.

• Experience integrating and deploying open-source AI models in enterprise or Federal environments.
• Experience with AI technologies such as LLMs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) embeddings vector search model APIs model serving or AI agent/workflow frameworks.
• Experience supporting OMB Federal financial management budget execution grants management payment systems award oversight financial reporting or financial stewardship.
• Experience delivering technology solutions in secure Federal on-premises air-gapped or hybrid environments.
• Experience with Linux PostgreSQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience with Jenkins Azure DevOps Kubernetes/Rancher or comparable DevSecOps technologies.
• Familiarity with modern Java frameworks and enterprise application architectures.
• Experience working with data visualization analytics platforms or decision-support applications.
• Experience translating user and mission requirements into technical designs and production-ready software.
• Familiarity with Federal security privacy accessibility and compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting Federal financial management budget execution grants management payment systems award oversight financial reporting or financial stewardship is preferred.
• Experience supporting Federal financial management grants payment or award-oversight platforms.