Navigant Consulting
Lead Full-Stack Developer
San Antonio, Texas, USA · full-time
No sponsorship$92k-$153kDetected 24 days ago
JavaScriptPythonReactVue.jsAngularSvelteDjangoFastAPIFlaskDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDAPI DevelopmentAgileLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Experience leading teams and implementing frontend and backend services for cloud-native software products and solutions using technologies such as Python, JavaScript, Django, and Vue.js.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with clients, leaders, solution architects, and technical and functional leads across Guidehouse teams and market segments to support client projects, growth initiatives, and capability development.
- Lead solution architecture and hands-on full-stack engineering for scalable, secure distributed systems using modern programming technologies, AWS-native services, microservices architecture, containerization, and API-first design patterns.
- Collaborate with user experience designers, platform engineers, product owners, solution architects, business analysts, and full-stack development teams to design, build, test, and deploy high-value, operationally resilient software products on AWS that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Define application architecture standards, design patterns, and development best practices across teams; establish architectural roadmaps for complex modernization projects; and ensure alignment with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
- Lead technical decision-making, oversee implementation of complex distributed systems, and provide escalation support for challenging technical issues while managing timelines, resource allocation, and technical deliverables across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Guide proof-of-concept development and technical demonstrations to validate solution strategies, and lead solution architecture efforts for RFPs, technical proposals, and thought leadership initiatives.
- Proven ability to architect software products and solution prototypes, establish technical standards, validate solution strategies, and explain the tradeoffs of complex design alternatives to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Candidates must also be able to design and build cloud-based software products that align with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
- This hands-on cloud software architecture and engineering leadership role requires the ability to design, build, deploy, and architect custom AWS cloud applications while leading technical teams.
- Proven ability to design, build, test, and deploy software products and solutions on AWS, with demonstrated success in client-facing roles and stakeholder management.
Requirements
- What You Will Need: A Bachelor's degree
- Additional four(4) years of experience is required in lieu of degree.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience developing, building, or modernizing applications on AWS.
- Expert proficiency in Python and JavaScript, with proven experience leading teams of five or more developers.
- Experience with microservices architecture, API design patterns, containerization using Docker or Kubernetes, serverless computing, and modern CI/CD practices for enterprise-scale applications.
- Familiarity with the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) and proven design patterns, such as Model-View-Controller, Circuit Breaker, and Event-Driven patterns, is required.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"
- Minimum of six (6) years of relevant full-stack application development experience, including at least four (4) years in leadership or architecture roles.
- Proven ability to work independently while leading, mentoring, collaborating with, and supporting team members to solve complex technical problems across multiple concurrent projects.
Nice to have
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification.
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification.
- Experience supporting solution architecture for technical proposal volumes, white papers, RFPs/RFIs, and thought leadership initiatives, with a proven track record in client services or consulting.
- Experience with advanced monitoring and observability tools, performance tuning, and capacity planning for large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficiency delivering cloud-based software products using modern CI/CD pipeline tools and collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to deliver secure, operationally resilient solutions.
- Contributions to open-source projects, technical publications, or thought leadership in application architecture and cloud-native development.
- Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
- Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.
Compensation
- $92k-$153k
Benefits
- Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
- Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event.
- Benefits include:
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship
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