Our client, a prestigious Federal contractor, is seeking a motivated, customer-oriented Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer to join their team in a hybrid role (home-based and Ashburn, VA) to begin an exciting and challenging career.

The position is Hybrid, and the candidate will need to be in the DMV area and available to come onsite 2-3 days per week in Ashburn, VA. Our client is looking to onboard as a 6-month contract to hire.

As a Mid-level FS Software Engineer, you will be a member of the team supporting the Land Border Integration (LBI) program for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program. The position will be supporting various border security efforts of CBP and includes biometric technologies such as facial recognition, RFID enabled documents, license plate reading technologies, data analytics, IoT, and other border security technologies. Come and join the team so you too can contribute to making our borders even safer than they are today.

Responsibilities:

- Utilize full-stack development expertise that ranges from client development of markup and styling to OS level services, and server-side containers and database technologies.
- Contribute to the design and development C# .NET core applications and hardware driver development.
- Design pattern implementations, including REST and dependency injection.
- Support Docker desktop containers and services such as Kubernetes or Konvoy.
- Database support for PostgreSQL code-first or database-first.
- Document software designs, which may include design diagrams, data flow diagrams, software module descriptions, etc.
- Use Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools to include VSCode and GIT.
- Provide Tier 3 / 4 engineering support, as needed, for solutions deployed to production.

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirements with the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust (current DHS Public Trust is preferred)
- Bachelor-s Degree and five (5) years or more experience; Master-s and three (3) years or more experience; PhD or JD and (0) years or more experience Two additional years of professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Primary Experience:
- Skilled at backend service development and interacting with hardware drivers and APIs.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and PowerShell.
- Comfortable with both Linux and Windows Operating systems and environments.
- C# / .NET 6 development
- Docker experience
- VueJS or ReactJS
- Familiarity with AWS & PostgreSQL - will consider strong proficiency in comparable technologies such as Azure and SQL Server/Oracle databases.

Additional Experience:
- Distributed system design and development with Microsoft .NET environment
- Familiar with build pipelines, including Jenkins with SonarQube
- Excellent troubleshooting and resolution skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in team environments across a diverse set of projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Proactive approach to problem solving and a delivery mindset.
- Middleware and User Interface driven applications
- Agile development
- Git, Git Tools, including GitLab.
- Entity Framework with code-first or database-first