Lead Full Stack Engineer- DoW

• Tech lead for a product squad-own technical direction, estimation, sprint planning, and on-time feature delivery.
• Implement scalable, secure, and observable system architectures (APIs, services, data models, caching, integrations).
• Build high-quality front-end experiences in React, and robust back-end services in Node.js/TypeScript, backed by PostgreSQL.
• Model schemas, write optimized SQL, tune queries, and manage migrations, all with an eye toward data integrity and growth.
• Code and test software based upon software specifications and designs.
• Analyze and study complex system requirements.
• Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain software development.
• Use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, and fault tolerant.
• Provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process.

• 6-10+ years of professional software engineering; 2+ years as a team lead or project tech lead.
• BS degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience with asynchronous programming, observables, and data structuring.
• Node.js/TypeScript building REST APIs and solid understanding of concurrency, async patterns, and API design.
• Demonstrated experience with application state management strategies.
• Solid understanding of HTML and CSS, including responsive design principles, CSS preprocessors, and knowledge of UI frameworks.
• Developing full stack web applications following design team specifications.
• Familiarity with front and backend build tools and package managers.
• Strong team player who thrives in a highly collaborative and cross-function environment, with a growth mindset.
• Development processes: source control, defect tracking, and collaborative tools; code review a plus.
• Conducting peer reviews.
• Decomposing software requirements into actionable development capabilities.
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
• Active Secret Clearance.

Qualities of Exceptional Candidates:

• Prior hands-on Palantir Foundry development experience - this is a critical qualification. You’ve built applications, data pipelines, or ontology-backed workflows in Foundry: Ontology design (object types, links, actions), Workshop and/or Slate applications, Foundry Functions (TypeScript), and ideally the Ontology SDK (OSDK) for custom React apps.
• Experience with Maven Smart System, AIP, or Gotham in a defense or intelligence context strongly preferred.
• Proven capacity to design scalable and maintainable solutions and patterns.
• Experience analyzing and employing strategies that optimize user experience, data retrieval and storage, and performance.
• Experience scripting in Linux and Windows environments.
• Experience with encryption and cryptography algorithms.
• Experience with Scrum or other agile methodologies., The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit., $160,000-210,000

The Department of War is fielding AI-enabled decision support at a speed the defense industry has never seen - and Maven Smart System is at the center of it. Sherpa 6 builds mission-critical software that puts operational data in the hands of the people who need it, from the Pentagon to the tactical edge. Our systems already run on 100,000+ fielded endpoints across the Joint Force.