Sr. Full Stack Engineer I (6860)
Builds web, mobile, and backend software for MetroStar's video intelligence products serving federal and defense customers, including real-time audio/video, edge and cloud deployments, and AI-integrated features. Core stack: Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI/Django, Docker/Kubernetes on AWS, and WebRTC.
- Compensation
- $160K–$170K / yr
- Location
- Reston, VA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- At least 5 years of hands-on full stack development in Python and TypeScript, building production web applications and backend services
- Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Django, HTML and CSS, REST API design, and SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience developing in Linux environments, including Bash or Python scripting for automation, diagnostics, and deployment
- Experience deploying containerized services with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines on AWS
- Experience building real-time audio and video features with WebRTC or similar technologies, plus recorded video playback and processing
- Experience building software that operates with limited or intermittent connectivity, including offline data storage, retry behavior, and data sync
- Experience with identity and access management, including OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and role-based access control
- Experience integrating AI and machine learning services into applications, such as search or conversational features built on large language models
- Working knowledge of Android or cross-platform mobile development, ideally on wearable devices
- Strong troubleshooting and secure coding skills, and familiarity with federal security requirements for authority to operate (ATO)
- Ability to work with limited direction in an innovation environment where requirements evolve and priorities shift
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to document designs and test results for engineering and customer audiences
Full description
As Sr. Full Stack Engineer I, you’ll build the web, mobile, and backend software behind our video intelligence products across edge and cloud environments, working alongside an agile team of AI engineers, data engineers, embedded engineers, and DevOps engineers supporting federal and defense customers.
We know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessed withour people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.
If you think you can see yourself delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check out the job description below!
What you’ll do:
- Design, build, test, and maintain web applications and backend services end to end, from user interfaces through APIs and data models
- Engineer features around live two-way audio and video communication between users in the field and remote teams
- Build features for reviewing, searching, and managing recorded video
- Build and deploy containerized software that runs in both edge and cloud environments and holds up in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited bandwidth conditions
- Build mobile and wearable applications, including hands-free interfaces for users in the field
- Integrate AI and machine learning capabilities into user-facing features, working closely with the AI engineers who build them
- Implement authentication, authorization, and other security controls across applications and services, and contribute to the documentation required for security authorization
- Build dashboards and administrative tools that help support teams monitor and manage deployed systems
- Document code, APIs, architecture, and deployment procedures, and present design tradeoffs, test results, and demos to a diverse audience, including senior leadership and customer stakeholders
What you’ll need to succeed:
- At least 5 years of hands-on full stack development in Python and TypeScript, building web applications and backend services that run in production
- Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Django, HTML and CSS, REST API design, and SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience developing in Linux environments, including Bash or Python scripting for automation, diagnostics, and deployment
- Experience deploying containerized services with Docker, Kubernetes, and continuous integration and delivery pipelines on AWS