Full Stack Software Engineer

Bridge Defense • Washington, DC

88d

About The Position

Bridge Defense is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to help design, develop, and deploy advanced software applications across the government and defense landscape. You'll build robust data pipelines, engineer integrations across secure systems, and work hands-on to deliver high-impact software directly to mission users.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in full-stack software development (React, Node.js, Python, or similar)
• Strong experience building data integration pipelines and backend systems
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience in DevSecOps and CI/CD best practices
• Mission-driven, adaptable, and able to thrive in fast-paced environments
• Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills.
• The candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties.
• Critical thinker with strong technical skills, diagnostic skills and problem-solving ability.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills to negotiate direction, drive projects and projects to successful conclusion and deliver knowledge to team members verbally and via clear designs, runbooks and technical engineering and exchange sessions.
• Self-starter, flexible, adaptable, collaborative and motivated to champion continuous improvement.
• Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems.
• Ability to operate across traditional technical boundaries, comfortable working in the compute space as well as the storage space in an operational capacity.
• Technically curious and driven to learn new skills.
• Current TS/SCI security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with government systems, classified environments, or highly regulated industries
• Familiarity with Palantir Foundry, TAK, or similar defense technology platforms

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy scalable, secure full-stack applications using modern frameworks (e.g., React, Python, Java, Node.js)
• Build and maintain data integration pipelines and workflow automation
• Engineer secure integrations across diverse government platforms and cloud environments
• Work closely with cross-functional teams and end users to translate mission needs into robust software solutions
• Deploy and maintain applications in secure or classified environments
• Participate in code reviews, architecture design, and continuous improvement initiatives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed