Full Stack Software Engineer

About the role

**Role: Full Stack Software Engineer****Client: Defense\-Aerospace****Hourly Rate: up to $100/hr (W2, non\-benefited)****Length: 6\-month contract****Location:** **Orlando, FL****Clearance: Candidate must have the Ability to Obtain Secret Clearance. Not needed to start.** **Description:*** Design and implement a scalable platform that enables advanced analytics and AI driven development acceleration. * Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across all platform domains, incorporating archival, disaster recovery, and backup strategies. * Define and publish robust APIs that expose data and services to front end clients and third party consumers. * Develop responsive UI components using a modern React framework (e.g., Next.js, Shadcn UI Kit) to deliver dashboards, visualizations, and interactive data views. * Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for automated testing, linting, and deployment to both cloud based and air gapped environments. * Integrate third party services such as email/SMS notifications, and learning management standards (SCORM, xAPI, CMI5\). * Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end to end tests to protect against regressions and maintain high code quality. * Document APIs, data models, and deployment procedures clearly to facilitate cross team collaboration. * Leverage AI (e.g., Claude, other LLMs) as a core development assistant to accelerate coding, refactoring, test generation, and design validation.

**Required Skills:*** 6 or more years of delivering full stack software solutions on complex, data intensive programs. * Version Control \& CI/CD: Experience with version control software, preferably GitLab (repos, merge requests, pipelines). * Software Fundamentals: Strong grasp of design patterns, automated testing, continuous integration, and code quality practices. * Data Technologies: Familiarity with relational databases, messaging services, REST APIs, and object storage. * UI/UX Design: Ability to design and implement responsive user interfaces and dashboards. * Domain expertise in building end to end full stack solutions that address data flow, security, archival, and disaster recovery concerns. * Strategic vision to design platforms that enable AI augmented development, ensuring that the solution remains adaptable as AI capabilities evolve. * Ability to leverage AI tools (Cline AI Plugin for VSCode, generative code assistants) to enhance productivity, code quality, and architectural validation, reducing reliance on niche technical specialties

**Desired Skills:*** Agile methodology experience (Scrum, Kanban) and participation in cross functional Agile teams. * Advanced DevOps toolset knowledge (Ansible, Nexus, GitLab Runner, Harbor). * Proficiency in React, Next.js, Node.js, Shadcn UI Kit, FastAPI, and modern front end ecosystems. * Experience with Apache Superset/Trino for cross platform data querying and analytics. * Strong scripting abilities (PowerShell, Bash, Python). * Prior exposure to Turnkey training or learning architectures. * Experience with Kubernetes and cloud/air gapped deployment models * Experience with integrating email/SMS notifications * Experience with learning management standards (SCORM, xAPI, CMI5\). * Emphasis on Vision \& AI Driven Design

**Required Education:** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with supplemental experience (e.g. Aerospace Engineering with experience in software development).

If interested in learning more about this position, please email your resume to KDunkin@geologics.com and I will call back with more information.