Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our growing Huntsville, Alabama work program. The selected candidate will support application design, development, integration, and modernization for a major federal transformation program. This senior role develops secure, scalable, cloud-ready solutions and works across the entire stack—front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, and cloud environments. The Full Stack Engineer collaborates with Product, DevSecOps, Cloud, Data, QA, and Migration teams to deliver mission-critical capabilities that meet federal performance, security, and compliance standards.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and maintain front-end and back-end components for enterprise applications
- Build and optimize REST APIs, microservices, and system-to-system integrations
- Ensure code quality, performance, and maintainability across the full stack
- Develop cloud-compatible services and applications (AWS preferred)
- Support deployment of pipelines, infrastructure integration, and CI/CD workflows
- Align application architecture with modernization and cloud migration requirement
- Collaborate with Scrum Masters, Product Leads, QA Automation Engineers, Cloud Engineers, and Data Engineers
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, technical design reviews, and demos
- Mentor mid-level engineers and support knowledge-sharing across teams Security, Performance & Compliance
- Implement secure coding practices, logging, auditing, and data-handling requirements
- Conduct performance tuning, optimization, and reliability improvements
- Ensure delivery aligns with federal security standards and program governance Testing & Quality Support
- Support automated testing and validation of application functionality and integrations
- Troubleshoot defects across the stack and coordinate with QA to resolve issues
- Validate readiness for release and major deployment events
- Develop technical design documents, API specifications, data flow diagrams, and code documentation
- Maintain full-stack engineering artifacts required for release, sustainment, and audits
- Provide status updates and technical insights to leadership and cross-functional teams
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in software engineering or full-stack development
- Experience developing both front-end and back-end solutions using modern frameworks
- Hands-on experience with APIs, microservices, relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, DevSecOps environments, and automated testing
- Strong ability to troubleshoot issues across the entire stack
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Must be able to work full-time on-site at our customer location in Huntsville, Alabama.
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and the ability to obtain a CI polygraph.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting federal government / national-security programs
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS strongly preferred)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), or serverless frameworks
- Experience with performance engineering, load testing, or automated quality pipelines
- Knowledge of Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages used across full-stack systems
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or full-stack development
- Experience developing front-end and back-end solutions using modern frameworks
- Hands-on experience with APIs, microservices, relational databases, and NoSQL databases
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, DevSecOps environments, and automated testing
- Ability to troubleshoot issues across the entire technology stack
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work full-time on-site in Huntsville, Alabama
- Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI and ability to obtain a CI polygraph
- Experience supporting federal government or national-security programs
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, preferably AWS
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless frameworks
- Experience with performance engineering, load testing, or automated quality pipelines
- Knowledge of Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
