Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to agencies that keep the nation healthy and safe through domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how. The Senior Software Engineer will provide technical leadership across application engineering, cloud integration, and platform operations for FEMA's AI portfolio, building and sustaining secure, accessible, and scalable full-stack AI services.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment of full-stack AI applications
- Build user interfaces, APIs, middleware, data services, and back-end components for RAG/chatbot, document-processing, predictive-analytics, and enterprise-automation solutions
- Apply PERN-stack engineering practices using PostgreSQL, Express.js, React, and Node.js; use Terraform for infrastructure-as-code where applicable
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines, source-control practices, automated testing, environment promotion, and observability across FEMA-approved AI platforms
- Conduct system analysis, performance engineering, debugging, root-cause analysis, and technical-debt remediation
- Ensure user-facing deliverables comply with Section 508; support accessibility test plans, test results, and Accessibility Conformance Reports as required
- Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, build and operating plans, interface specifications, security artifacts, user guides, and technical documentation
- Collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity personnel, product owners, and program stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, production-ready capabilities
Skills
- Five (5) to ten (10) years of experience in full-stack software engineering, application architecture, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, or related technical disciplines
- Demonstrated experience with relational databases, modern web frameworks, Agile/Scrum delivery, software architecture, and system integration
- Proficiency with PERN-stack technologies or comparable modern full-stack technologies; Terraform; CI/CD; git-based code management; and observability tools
- Experience designing accessible user interfaces and testing web applications for Section 508 conformance
- Experience building secure, maintainable, scalable applications and integrating cloud-hosted services, APIs, and enterprise data systems
- Strong technical leadership, documentation, troubleshooting, performance-engineering, and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain architecture, technical risks, accessibility considerations, and solution tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences
- Ability to write clear, concise content and manage sensitive information in a highly confidential manner
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Favorably adjudicated FEMA Public Trust suitability is required before the employee's start date
- Must comply with DHS/FEMA training, safeguarding, and access-control requirements applicable to FOUO/SBU information and assigned systems
- Cloud, DevSecOps, agile, accessibility, software architecture, or relevant technical certification
Benefits
- This is a remote position.
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