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In this role, you will develop end-to-end features running exclusively in pure Docker and Kubernetes environments, balancing high-throughput backend services with modern, reactive web interfaces.\n\nYou will operate in a modern, AI-Native \"paved road\" development environment. Our engineering philosophy emphasizes modular, API-first contracts and container-native workflows that enable tight collaboration between human developers and autonomous AI coding agents.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nFull-Stack Application Engineering: Design, build, and maintain production-ready applications, combining performant backend microservices with responsive, accessible user interfaces.\nPolyglot Service Development: Build robust services adhering strictly to our technology priorities—primary backend development in Go (Golang), modern frontend interfaces in Next.js and Vite/React, with secondary service and automation layers in Python.\nContainer & Kubernetes Native Execution: Package, deploy, and operate services exclusively within pure Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS), defining declarative manifests, Helm charts, and health probes.\nSecure API & Contract Design: Architect and consume strict REST, gRPC, and OpenAPI interface contracts to ensure clean service boundaries and compatibility with decoupled distributed systems.\nDoD Security & Compliance: Integrate Zero-Trust security principles into application code, including mTLS, Keycloak (OIDC/CAC/PKI authentication), token-based authorization (JWT/OAuth2), and secrets management via Vault.\nAI-Native Engineering: Leverage AI coding assistants, prompt-driven generation, and autonomous agent workflows to accelerate feature delivery, generate unit tests, and maintain clean architectural patterns.\n\nRequired Technical Expertise\n\nCore Languages (in prioritized order): Go (Golang), TypeScript/JavaScript (Next.js, Vite/React), and Python.\n\nFrontend Engineering: Deep proficiency in modern React, Next.js (App Router, SSR/SSG), Vite, component state management, and modern styling (Tailwind CSS, Shadcn).\n\nContainers & Orchestration: Pure Docker workflows (multi-stage builds, minimal base images, rootless execution) and Kubernetes (deployments, stateful sets, services, ingress, Helm).\n\nCloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience developing against AWS (Commercial and GovCloud) and collaborating through modern CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI).\n\nSecurity & Auth: Solid understanding of secure coding practices (OWASP Top 10), authentication protocols (OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, PKI/CAC), and Zero-Trust network models.\n\nQualifications\n\n5-8+ years of professional full-stack software development experience.\n\nClearance Requirement: U.S. Citizenship required. 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