Our client, a prestigious Federal contractor is seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Principal Full Stack Software Engineer Team Lead to join their team in a hybrid role (home based and Sterling, 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 as needed (possible up to 2 days per week). The days are flexible, and the need may not arise each week consistently. Our client is looking to onboard as a 6 months contract to hire.

Responsibilities:
- Provide 75% Development and 25% management
- Lead team organization and project meetings, including Agile SCRUM practices such as team's daily stand-ups, as well as customer demonstrations and discussions. The current team consists of 4-5 developers.
- Work with enterprise architect, project manager and stakeholders to review roadmaps and project requirements.
- Help present roadmap and project requirements to development team, as well as create stories and tasks for backlog grooming. Must be able to develop a backlog supporting multiple sprints.
- Assign stories and tasks to team members. Promote team's skills through activities such as peer reviews and pair programming.
- Meet with stakeholders for solution overview, Q&A, and to perform sprint demonstration, as well as topic presentations.
- Full-stack development expertise, capable of hands-on contributions that range from client development of markup and styling to OS level services, and server-side containers and database technologies.
- Design and develop .NET applications including OS level services, ASP.NET web services and server-side hosted services.
- Client user interface applications experience with VueJS and/or ReactJS.
- Support docker desktop containers and services such as Kubernetes or Konvoy.
- Database support for PostgreSQL, possibly SQLServer with Entity Framework code-first or database-first.
- Develop software design documentation which may include design diagrams, data flow diagrams, software module descriptions, etc.
- Use Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools to include VSCode and Git command line and/or GitLab.
- Familiar with build pipelines, including Jenkins with SonarQube.
- Hardware and Software integration, capable of developing software to integrate with hardware components such as a GPIO and Arduino boards.
- Manage software testing activities, including data setup, defect troubleshooting, resolution, and documenting results.
- Provide Tier 3 / 4 engineering support, as needed, for solutions deployed to production

Required Skills

- Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Public Trust
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science related field or a directly related field.
(May consider an additional 4 years of experience in lieu of a degree.)
- 9+ years of dedicated Software Development / Engineering experience
- Strong PostgreSQL
- Proficient in React 17/18 and Vue - must be able to develop in both
- Excellent troubleshooting and resolution skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience developing design documents and interface control documents
- Technical lead experience managing multiple developers and QA staff
- Web service development
- Database development
- TCP and RESTful HTTP Programming
- Middleware and User Interface driven applications
- Multi-threaded applications and exception handling
- Agile development
- Jira and Confluence experience
- Git command line, Git Tools, including GitLab
- Multi-threaded applications and exception handling