Full Stack Engineer Lead

Job# : 2045392

Job Description :

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Participate and own end - to - end iterative design, development, and testing, and deployment of capabilities within the Navy Reserve portfolio of business systems.
• Work with analysts, stakeholders, and other engineers to understand, define, and improve requirements.
• Maintain a pulse on development roadmaps and emerging technologies to advance those employed by the team
• Promotes team growth through a variety of mechanisms, including mentoring, code reviews, educational and inspirational articles, commentary, and talks.
• Advise leadership and team on complexity reduction in projects, products, services, systems, and process. Recognize and demonstrate the ability to make decisions based on risk and return on-investment.
• Produce, test and perform on going evaluation of deployable ML models that can operate in near real time and provide enhanced and automated outputs to the Navy Reserve community.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis on large, raw and highly dimensional pre-existing datasets, apply data visualization, normalization and data mining methods to extract usable data from possibly noisy datasets.
• Become a resident expert in all technologies within the full stack, including but not limited to .NET, JavaScript, React, and subordinate technologies / frameworks, with a particular focus on AI / ML capabilities / tools / techniques.
• Promote a culture founded on agile development with high development standards

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related disciplines
• 5 years of relevant experience performing software development
• SECRET level security clearance
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or equivalent), or ability to achieve within 6months
• Proven ability to perform generative AI tasks (script generation, generative models)
• Familiarity with unlabeled datasets and applicable machine learning processes (self - supervised learning, semi-supervised and meta-learning)
• Experience with nondeep learning techniques in a supervised setting (support vector machines, decision trees, KNN, and random forests).

Experience with non-deep learning techniques in an unsupervised setting (K-means, DBSCAN, Hierarchical clustering, T-SNE).

• Experience developing solutions leveraging large language models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows
• Proven ability to multitask and prioritize accordingly, contributing to multiple assigned-projects
• Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment
• Good understanding of business requirements and IT strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Practical knowledge of software design patterns
• Experience with bug tracking systems (GitLab, GitHub, Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with version control systems (Git preferred)
• Azure, AWS, and / or SaaS based development experience supporting AI / ML workloads

Desired Qualifications :

• Experience in and of the following : .NET (C#), , JavaScript, Node, React, Python, MS SQL Server
• Experience developing in an Agile environment, leveraging Scrum and / or Kanban
• Experience development business systems for the Department of Defense, specifically the US Navy
• Experience building responsive web applications suitable for use on Mobile devices
• Experience implementing and configuring CI / CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Sonar Qube, Nexus Repository Manager, Nexus IQ)
• Experience managing software deployed to a production environment (IIS, MS SQL Server)
• Knowledge of AI / ML algorithms, or an ability to learn and understand existing implementations
• Knowledge of Generative AI and common development patterns, tools, and techniques, including Vector Stores, Large Language Models, and Prompt Engineering

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