Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Developer Location: Suitland, Maryland or Tri-State Schedule: Hybrid, 2–3 days onsite per week Employment: Full-time, permanent Clearance: Active TS/SCI required Start: Immediate start preferred Team: 2–3 developers reporting to a technical lead The work: Develop secure, cloud-native applications from database schema through backend services and production user interfaces. Support an existing platform while building pilot solutions and custom MVPs. Work includes API development, dashboards, legacy data migration, authentication integration and deployment across AWS partitions and classification levels. Core stack: Python/Django, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL/Aurora, AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD and Keycloak. Required Qualifications: Active TS/SCI 5+ years of hands-on development Python backend using Django, FastAPI including async/ASGI and modern Python 3.13+ Production frontend React, Next.js or equivalent ; must demonstrate complete applications RESTful API design, Backend-for-Frontend patterns , including Pydantic-driven validation PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, migrations and data loading AWS application deployment &troubleshooting across classified partitions and regions Familiarity with EKS, Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC and KMS Terraform module development and maintenance Authentication integration using Keycloak, OIDC, SAML or CAC/PIV; secure token handling Secure development for STIG-hardened, FIPS-validated environments GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows