Full Stack Developer

Spatial Front, Inc.•Arlington, VA

8d•$80,000 - $120,000

About The Position

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a two-time USA Today Top Workplaces awardee and Washington Top Workplaces honoree, is seeking a Full Stack Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have strong Node.js, TypeScript, modern web application, and AWS engineering expertise. This position will build and modernize secure, high availability systems and services, APIs, user interfaces, and data integrations in an Agile federal environment and will support upcoming AI and intelligent automation initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
Five or more years of backend or full stack application development experience.
Hands on experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, ECS or Fargate, CloudFormation, S3, SNS, and SQS.
Experience designing microservices, serverless applications, asynchronous workflows, and event driven integrations.
Experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including data modeling and performance tuning.
Experience with automated testing, Git based development, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and production troubleshooting.
Understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, logging, API protection, vulnerability remediation, and secure coding practices.
Strong, recent experience with Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, REST APIs, and a modern single page application framework.
Experience integrating generative AI or machine learning capabilities using AWS Bedrock or comparable managed services.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting DOT or other federal applications and compliance environments.
Experience modernizing legacy applications and migrating services or databases to AWS.
Experience with Docker, container orchestration, CloudWatch, distributed tracing, and operational observability.
Experience with Python and data processing or analytics workflows.
Knowledge of retrieval augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, prompt design, model evaluation, responsible AI controls, and human in the loop workflows.
Experience with accessibility standards, including Section 508 and USWDS based application development.
AWS Developer, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, AI Practitioner, or Machine Learning certification.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full stack features, responsive user interfaces, APIs, microservices, and event driven integrations using Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and approved web frameworks.
Build and support AWS cloud native solutions using services such as Lambda, API Gateway, ECS and Fargate, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, and infrastructure as code.
Develop secure and efficient data solutions using Aurora PostgreSQL or PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including data migration, indexing, query optimization, and integration patterns.
Modernize legacy services and applications for AWS while maintaining operational continuity, data integrity, performance, and backward compatibility.
Contribute to planned AI enabled features by integrating approved models and services with secure data access, evaluation, traceability, human review, and responsible AI guardrails.
Create automated unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and support CI/CD pipelines, release validation, production monitoring, troubleshooting, and defect resolution.
Collaborate with program stakeholders, product managers, architects, business analysts, QA engineers, DevSecOps engineers, and developers throughout discovery, design, delivery, and operations.
Improve application availability, scalability, observability, accessibility, and performance using metrics, logs, traces, and proactive engineering practices.