Ardent
Full Stack Software Developer
Washington, D.C · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactHTMLFastAPIFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewGitPostgreSQLAWSCloud PlatformsDockerCI/CDRESTOpenAPIAccessibilityAgileJestpytestCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Ardent is seeking a Full Stack Software Developer to join our team.
- This is a onsite position in Washington DC.
- This engagement is focused on continuous delivery of working software through iterative development cycles, adherence to modern engineering practices, and close collaboration with technical staff and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy new features and enhancements across front-end (ReactJS) and back-end (Python/FastAPI) layers of CBO applications.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs using FastAPI, ensuring proper validation, error handling, versioning, and documentation (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger).
- Develop responsive, accessible front-end interfaces using ReactJS, adhering to CBO UX standards and Section 508 accessibility requirements.
- Implement and manage data models, queries, migrations, and stored procedures within PostgreSQL databases, with attention to performance and data integrity.
- Operate within CBO's trunk-based development workflow, committing small, incremental changes frequently to the main branch to reduce integration risk and maintain a releasable codebase.
- Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive technical feedback to maintain code quality and consistency.
- Collaborate with CBO engineers, product owners, and analysts to understand requirements, refine user stories, and deliver working software iteratively.
- Support deployment of containerized workloads to AWS environments (e.g., ECS, EKS, or equivalent managed services), working within existing cloud infrastructure patterns established by CBO's infrastructure team.
- Collaborate with CBO infrastructure staff on environment configuration, secrets management, and cloud resource usage.
- Write and maintain automated unit, integration, and regression tests for both back-end (pytest or equivalent) and front-end (Jest, React Testing Library, or equivalent) code.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in full stack software development.
- Strong proficiency in ReactJS, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL database design, query optimization, data modeling, and database administration concepts.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.
- Experience participating in Agile development environments, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, code reviews, and retrospectives.
- Experience using Git-based source control and collaborative development workflows.
- Strong understanding of software development best practices, including secure coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve application, database, and infrastructure-related issues.
- Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.
Compensation
- We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gend
Benefits
- Proactively identify and address technical debt, refactoring code to improve maintainability, readability, and test coverage.
- Ensure new features and bug fixes are accompanied by appropriate test coverage prior to merge.
Company info
- At Ardent, we hire people who want more than a job - they want to serve a mission that matters.
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