Full Stack Developer
About The Position
The Full Stack Developer will collaborate with clients, digital leaders, solution architects, and technical and functional leads across Guidehouse digital teams and market segments to support client engagements, growth initiatives, and capability development. As a key member of the modernization team, the developer will address technical challenges, deliver demonstrations, and create innovative solution prototypes using cloud architectures and modern software technologies. The role provides hands-on full-stack engineering for scalable, secure, distributed systems, using modern programming languages, cloud-native and microservices architectures, containerization, and API-first design patterns. The developer will work with user experience designers, platform engineers, product owners, solution architects, and business analysts to design, build, test, and deploy high-value, operationally resilient software products on AWS that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship or Green Card status, and ability to obtain a public trust clearance.
- At least 4 years of relevant experience in full-stack application development.
- Bachelor’s degree, or at least 8 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 3 years of experience developing cloud applications to build and modernize applications and datasets on AWS.
- Experience implementing frontend and backend services for cloud-native software products and solutions using technologies such as Python, JavaScript, Django, and Vue.js.
- Proficiency in Python and JavaScript.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating with, mentoring, and supporting team members to solve complex technical problems.
- Ability to develop software products and solution prototypes, use prototypes to validate technical strategies, and clearly communicate trade-offs of complex design alternatives.
- In-depth understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile practices and principles, with experience planning and implementing software products with agility.
Nice To Haves
- Django experience; equivalent experience with Flask, FastAPI, Falcon, or SQLAlchemy may be considered.
- Vue.js experience; equivalent experience with React, Svelte, or Angular version 1.6 or higher may be considered.
- AWS Certified Developer certification.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
- Experience with Flask, Docker, Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Elasticsearch, caching frameworks, Redis, Memcached, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and/or MongoDB NoSQL database services.
- Familiarity with AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), design patterns such as Model-View-Controller, and designing and building cloud-based software products aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Experience delivering cloud-based software products using modern CI/CD pipeline tooling and collaborating continuously with development, operations, and security teams to deliver secure and operationally resilient products and solutions.
- Hands-on cloud software development or engineering experience, including consistently building and deploying custom applications in AWS.
- Ability to design, build, test, and deploy software products and solutions on AWS.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to understand customer requirements and engineer effective solutions.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with clients, digital leaders, solution architects, and technical and functional leads across Guidehouse digital teams and market segments to support client engagements, growth initiatives, and capability development.
- Address technical challenges, deliver demonstrations, and build innovative solution prototypes as a member of the modernization team.
- Provide hands-on full-stack engineering for scalable, secure, distributed systems using modern languages, cloud-native and microservices architectures, containerization, and API-first design patterns.
- Collaborate with UX designers, platform engineers, product owners, solution architects, and business analysts to design, build, test, and deploy AWS software products that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
- Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays
- Parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Group term life and travel assistance
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Health Savings Account and health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and parking commuter benefits
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Tuition reimbursement, personal development, certifications, and learning opportunities
- Employee referral program
- Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental benefits via Corestream, including critical care, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, legal assistance, and identity theft protection
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
