Our premier AI Defense Startup Client is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale the our product—an operator-facing application used by defense analysts, coast guard operators, and commercial fleet managers to monitor, query, and act on maritime intelligence in real time. This role has the flexibility of being located in Washington, DC or San Francisco, CA.
Note: All candidate MUST be a US Citizen
Responsibilities:
- Build, test, and ship full-stack features across our React web portal and Spring Boot backend services.
- Develop and maintain versioned RESTful APIs that surface sensor data, vessel telemetry, and AI detection outputs to end users.
- Deploy and maintain microservices running on AWS, ensuring service reliability and low latency under high-throughput data conditions.
- Write and optimize PostGIS queries and data access patterns to support bulk artifact retrieval and map rendering across hundreds of vessels.
- Build internal admin and fleet management tools that help our operations team configure, monitor, and support deployed SmartMast units.
- Collaborate closely with our design team to implement pixel-precise UI components for data-dense map views and sensor visualizations.
- Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of service reliability and incident response for your services.
Requirements:
- BS Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar education and experience.
- 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Background in defense, maritime (warship, submarine, etc.), or government software with exposure to data security requirements.
- Experience integrating AI/ML model outputs into user-facing product features.
- Strong knowledge of React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript for building complex web applications.
- Solid experience with the following programming languages: Python, Node.js or Java.
- Solid backend experience in Spring Boot – designing and building REST APIs.
- Working knowledge of AWS services (S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IoT Core, CloudWatch)
- Experience with microservices architecture, containerization (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
Visa Requirements:
All candidates MUST be a United States Citizen
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