Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Karsun Solutions is a company transforming possibilities for the US Government. The Lead Full Stack Developer will be responsible for leading a small team of Full Stack Developers and Test Automation Engineers, collaborating with business analysts and product leads to execute agile development processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead an agile team of developers and test automation engineers and grow them into a high-performance team
- Hands-on role with extensive involvement in the full development lifecycle, including designing, developing, implementing, testing, maintenance and enhancement of products
- Hands on experience in leveraging AI tools and technologies during development lifecycle to enhance productivity and efficiency
- Accountable for the quality of the product delivered and team performance
- Provide technical direction and mentor teams of resources in all aspects of technical delivery incorporating efficient workflows, frameworks, templates, design and code best practices to produce reusable and maintainable code
- Implement the best practices of Agile and DevSecOps to deliver quality products predictably and consistently
- Lead the evaluation of functional/business and technical requirements and identify gaps/risks
- Review proposed new feature development to validate feasibility and estimate the development work
- Serve as the technical and technology expert crafting the detailed application design with a focus on standards, performance, flexibility, scalability and security, as well as supporting the implementation of the solution
- Provide validation of proposed technical architectures and solutions
- Monitor and analyze product performance in production, while looking for ways to optimize and scale existing solutions
- Evaluate product and process metrics (such as velocity, productivity, quality, usability) and implement process improvements
- Reinforce strategies, standards, and architecture are consistent and well-integrated across different product teams by creating and engaging in communities of practice
- Keep abreast of the emerging tools and technologies and make recommendations for relevant platform and technologies
- Keep skills up to date through ongoing self-directed training
- Recommend senior management on improvement areas
- Help application developers to adopt new platforms through documentation, training, and mentoring
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 10+ years of full-lifecycle application development experience and at least 3 years of experience using the technologies listed below and AWS cloud platform
- Experience in architecting and designing solutions and decompose them into modules for development
- 5+ years of experience using Agile, DevSecOps, Test driven development and other lean methodologies
- Must have implementation experience on using Agile project management tools (JIRA), and CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing and deployment
- Experience developing cloud native solutions according to industry best practices
- Extensive hands-on experience in JavaScript (React.js, Node.js, modern JavaScript libraries - ES6 - 2015 and later versions), API development (GraphQL/RESTful), messaging (Kafka, AWS kinesis or others), serverless application development using AWS Lambda, SQL and NoSQL databases, AWS services (Lambda, S3, Dynamo, Kinesis, RDS, Redshift and several others)
- Strong experience in database queries and working preferably with MySQL
- Good understanding of AI models , Agentic development and RAG concepts
- Experience in using AI tools, e.g., Copilot, AWS Bedrock, etc. to generate code for development and automation testing
- Experience in establishing source code management best practices (branching, repository structure, peer review process, documentation) to manage a code base as if it were open source
- Experience in establishing release management processes and standards
- Deep understanding of industry patterns for application architecture and integration
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present and comprehend technical details clearly
- Must be able to demonstrate product demos to users and stakeholders, collect feedback and implement improvements
- Ability to mentor junior resources, assist in technical troubleshooting, peer review the team member's work products and validate
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued clearance is required
- Experience in a government contracting environment with DoD and non-DoD customers
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