Junior Full Stack Developer | Defense Health Agency (DHA)

Position Summary: Stratitia is seeking a motivated Junior Full Stack Developer to join an Agile team supporting the Defense Health Agency’s operational medicine and blood-management software portfolio. You will work with experienced engineers to build, test, and improve secure applications used to support donor operations, blood-product inventory, distribution, transfusion workflows, and medical readiness in demanding environments. Why This Role Matters: This role is designed for an early-career developer who wants meaningful technical work and structured growth. You will contribute across the application stack while learning how reliable, traceable software is delivered for regulated, mission-critical healthcare operations. **What You Will Do: **

• Implement well-scoped front-end and back-end user stories with guidance from senior engineers. ***** Correct basic defects, reproduce reported issues, and document root cause and resolution details.

• Build and maintain unit tests for assigned components; support integration and regression testing.
• Work with relational data, application services, and interfaces while protecting data accuracy and auditability.
• Support capabilities used in connected and limited-connectivity environments, including local data capture and synchronization workflows.
• Participate actively in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Use source control, peer review, issue tracking, and team coding standards to produce secure, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, DevSecOps engineers, cybersecurity staff, and functional subject-matter experts.
• Create clear technical notes, test evidence, and other development artifacts needed for release and Government review.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• At least one year of professional software-development experience, including internships, apprenticeships, or equivalent hands-on delivery experience.
• Working knowledge of object-oriented programming and at least one back-end language or runtime.

• Foundational experience with web technologies, APIs, relational databases

  SQL, source control, automated unit testing.

• Ability to break down problems, follow established engineering practices, and ask effective technical questions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to contribute within a distributed Agile team.

• Commitment to secure coding, data integrity, documentation, and continuous learning. Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to C#/.NET, Java, JavaScript or TypeScript, and a modern web user-interface framework.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, message-or file-based interfaces, barcode or peripheral integration, or transactional data workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containers, automated security scans, or cloud-based development environments.
• Exposure to federal, Department of Defense, healthcare, logistics, inventory, or other safety- or mission-critical systems.
• Awareness of accessibility, secure software-development, and configuration-management practices.

Compensation and Benefits - Competitive Salary; Paid Time Off; Medical, Dental and Vision coverage; STD + Life Insurance; 401(k) Retirement Plans with Company Match Conditions of Employment - Employment is contingent upon Government approval, successful completion of applicable pre-employment background checks and fingerprinting, and the candidate’s ability to obtain and maintain any access, credential, suitability, or security clearance, and to meet any training requirements associated with the position. Stratitia is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.