Senior Full-Stack Software Developer

DecisionPoint | Cortek•Chicago, IL

2d•Remote

About The Position

DecisionPoint seeks four Senior Full-Stack Software Developers to design, implement, test, secure, and modernize mission-critical software capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The developers build complex features across front-end and back-end application layers, develop and integrate APIs, address security findings, conduct code reviews, and support reliable software releases. The roles collaborate with architects, mission liaisons, requirements analysts, UI/UX specialists, testers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and Government stakeholders. They also mentor other developers and cross-train across critical components to strengthen delivery continuity and reduce key-person dependencies. The positions are remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. By applying, candidates acknowledge and consent to having their resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Requirements

Active Secret clearance or higher.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
At least eight years of relevant professional experience.
Experience developing, integrating, testing, and maintaining software applications.
Experience working across both front-end and back-end application layers.
Experience designing, developing, integrating, or consuming APIs.
Experience developing and maintaining unit tests.
Experience applying secure coding principles and correcting software security issues.
Experience using version-control systems and structured source-code management practices.
Ability to implement complex software features and modernization enhancements.
Ability to review source code and provide actionable technical feedback.
Ability to diagnose and resolve complex software, integration, performance, or security problems.
Ability to mentor developers and cross-train across critical application components.
Ability to collaborate with architects, analysts, designers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, platform engineers, and Government stakeholders.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

A relevant software-development or cloud certification from AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Oracle, Red Hat, or another recognized provider.
Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs.
Experience developing mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability systems.
Experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks and component-based front-end development.
Experience with Java, C#, .NET, Python, Node.js, or comparable server-side technologies.
Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, web services, asynchronous integrations, or event-driven services.
Experience with relational databases, data modeling, structured query languages, or object-relational mapping technologies.
Experience with cloud-native application development and services hosted in AWS, Azure, or another approved cloud environment.
Experience with containers, microservices, infrastructure automation, or modern application-platform technologies.
Experience with automated testing frameworks, static-code analysis, dependency scanning, or software-composition analysis.
Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and DevSecOps practices.
Experience with Agile software delivery and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, or comparable platforms.
Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements and accessible web-development practices.
Familiarity with DoD security requirements, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, configuration management, and software-release controls.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, integrate, document, deploy, and maintain mission-critical software capabilities.
Implement complex features and modernization enhancements across front-end, application, service, API, and data-access layers.
Translate approved requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, interface requirements, and design specifications into secure software solutions.
Develop intuitive and accessible web interfaces in coordination with UI/UX and accessibility specialists.
Design, implement, document, and maintain secure APIs and service integrations.
Develop reusable components, shared services, libraries, and software patterns.
Support application modernization, refactoring, technical-debt reduction, and replacement of obsolete components.
Evaluate existing code and recommend improvements to reliability, maintainability, scalability, security, and performance.
Implement approved security fixes and coordinate remediation with cybersecurity, testing, and platform teams.
Apply secure coding practices throughout design, development, testing, integration, and deployment.
Develop and maintain unit, integration, regression, and other automated quality tests.
Participate in peer reviews, code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions.
Review source code for correctness, security, performance, testability, maintainability, and compliance with established standards.
Diagnose and resolve complex defects, integration failures, performance issues, and production-support concerns.
Support root-cause analysis and implement durable corrective actions.
Use approved version-control practices, including branching, merging, pull requests, tagging, and release management.
Support continuous integration and delivery pipelines, automated builds, testing, and deployment activities.
Develop and maintain technical documentation, API documentation, build instructions, installation procedures, and release artifacts.
Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, demonstrations, reviews, retrospectives, and release-readiness activities.
Provide accurate estimates and identify technical risks, dependencies, assumptions, and implementation constraints.
Coordinate work with architecture, infrastructure, cloud, database, cybersecurity, testing, training, and operations teams.
Mentor junior and journeyman developers through technical guidance, code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
Cross-train on critical application components and provide coverage during absences, incidents, releases, and priority remediation activities.
Support Government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, operational validation, and stakeholder feedback.
Protect sensitive data and comply with applicable federal, DoD, security, privacy, and configuration-management requirements.
Contribute to continuous improvement of software-engineering, testing, documentation, and delivery practices.