Sr. Full Stack Developer

GDIT is seeking a Sr. Full Stack Engineer to support the National Institute of Health (NIH),  National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) custom software portfolio. The Full Stack Engineer will deliver innovative solutions for improving the effectiveness, reach, and content of these existing software solutions, while reducing their technical debt.

This role requires an understanding of how to improve existing code bases, while ensuring they continue to deliver value to organizations, as well as creating new code bases. The Full Stack Engineer Senior will have a strong understanding of industry trends and using Agile methodologies for development and deployment processes, and can propose and advocate for improvements to the codebase.  You will provide team and developer guidance to improve overall productivity.

You will be responsible for working across the software life-cycle, with an emphasis on design and development.  Systems may include scientific applications that search for data in large datasets which include biological, genomic and/or proteomic data. You will contribute to all parts of the application and testing stack. You will work collaboratively with the team to best realize system requirements, and when appropriate, provide custom implementations to create a compelling experience for system users.

This role is fully remote!

Other responsibilities will include:

• Facilitating and explaining high-leverage decisions about architecture and software development.
• Supporting a development team’s activities for writing clean, maintainable, testable, and extensible code.
• Contributing to all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Development, and Testing)
• Collaborating with the team on Agile activities, including estimation, iterative planning and retrospectives
• Managing code and other artifacts using Github

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems/Technology, Engineering/Engineering Technology or related field
• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with Java, JavaScript and SQL
• Experience with Git
• Experience working with and improving existing code bases
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Ability to obtain and maintain a NIH's Public Trust

Desired Skills:

• Experience developing scientific systems that search for data in large datasets which include biological, genomic and/or proteomic data
• Experience working in NIH environment; active NIH badge is a plus
• Experience with Material UI/React
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Junit
• Experience with Azure Services ( e.g. Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions)