26-1090: Senior Full Stack Developer SME - Ashburn, VA

Senior Full Stack Developer

Job ID#: 26-1090

Clearance: Top Secret

Location: Ashburn, VA

Who We Are :
Since our inception back in 2006, Navitas has grown to be an industry leader in the digital transformation space, and we’ve served as trusted advisors supporting our client base within the commercial, federal, and state and local markets.

What We Do :
At our very core, we’re a group of problem solvers providing our award-winning technology solutions to drive digital acceleration for our customers! With proven solutions, award-winning technologies, and a team of expert problem solvers, Navitas has consistently empowered customers to use technology as a competitive advantage and deliver cutting-edge transformative solutions.

What You’ll Do :
Navitas seeks a motivated, career and customer oriented Senior Full Stack Developer SME to join our team in Ashburn, Virginia. This position is onsite two days a week. Each day U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) oversees the massive flow of people, capital, and products that enter and depart the United States via air, land, sea, and cyberspace. The volume and complexity of both physical and virtual border crossings require the application of solutions to promote efficient trade and travel.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Lead and perform development and maintenance of end-user focused, object-oriented, data-driven analytic applications to support CBP threat analysis and targeting in an agile environment.

• Design, develop, and implement scalable, high-performance and reliable applications and microservices using Java (including frameworks like Spring Boot, Jakarta etc.) for the backend and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js) for the frontend.

• Contribute to all phases of the software engineering lifecycle (SELC), including requirements gathering, architecture design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Develop and consume RESTful APIs and ensure seamless integration between front-end and backend systems.

• Develop new code, modify existing application code, conduct unit and system testing, and engage in rigorous documentation of developed and delivered application use cases, data flows, and functional operations.

• Develop, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g. using Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Harness) for automated builds, testing, and deployments.

• Demonstrate a strong practical understanding to integrate rapid deployment process of AI/ML services into application delivery framework for targeting.

What You’ll Need :

• HS Diploma/GED and 15-20 years or AS/AA and 13-18 years or BS/BA and 7-12 years or MS/MA/MBA and 5-9 years or PhD/Doctorate and 3-7 years

• Proven expertise in Java development, including core Java concepts, object-oriented design principles/patterns and modern frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring Framework)

• Hands on experience developing Micro Services architecture patterns including building and deploying containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience with messaging queues such as gRPC, RabbitMQ, Kafka

• Hands-on experience setting up, configuring, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated application delivery using Harness or Jenkins

• Experience with RESTful API design and development

• Solid communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within a team.

• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain CBP Suitability and Top Secret Clearance.

Set Yourself Apart With :

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and related cloud services (e.g. EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, EKS)

• Experience working with relational databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)

• Hands on experience leveraging distributed data/computing tools including Hadoop, Spark, Impala, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development methodology

• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle

Equal Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Navitas Business Consulting is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Navitas Human Resources.

Navitas is an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment and opportunities for advancement, compensation, training, and growth according to individual merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, genetic information, disability, veteran-status veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable Federal, state, or local law. Our goal is for each staff member to have the opportunity to grow to the limits of their abilities and to achieve personal and organizational objectives. We will support positive programs for equal treatment of all staff and full utilization of all qualified employees at all levels within Navitas.