The Role
Lead and implement an AI-enabled full-stack product, remaining hands-on while directing a small team (2-6). Build secure, high-performance services and UIs, manage releases into hybrid and air-gapped environments, gather requirements, and guide engineers through reviews, conventions, and pairing.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join ClearEdge and be part of a mission-focused team solving some of the DoD’s most complex technical challenges. Every day, ClearEdge supports government and industry customers by delivering innovative solutions that enable critical operations and mission success.
ClearEdge offers an extremely competitive benefits package—including a $10k annual training and education benefit, a 10% 401(k) contribution fully vested on day one, annual health and technology allowances, and access to a state-of-the-art technology lab. Learn more at www.clearedgeit.com/careers/
Your Mission
Join ClearEdge as a Senior Software Engineer, where you will lead day-to-day delivery for one of our core AI-enabled products, guiding a small team while remaining hands-on and a key member of the implementation. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to implement scalable, secure, high-performing services, including AI-assisted capabilities that support automated analysis and decision support alongside comprehensive UI/UX development and functionality.
You will play a key role in developing and implementing our AI-enabled product while collaborating closely with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into intuitive, high-impact solutions.
You Will Excel in This Role If You Are:
- Experienced leading small engineering teams while remaining a primary implementor, spending the large majority of your time hands-on
- Skilled in full-stack development — language secondary, though you'll ship quickly in TypeScript, Python, and React
- Fluent with AI-native IDEs and comfortable using them as your default way of working
- Strong in version control habits
- Comfortable working in hybrid (on-prem/cloud) and air-gapped deployment environments
- Practical experience with containers
- Familiar with production cross-cutting concerns: identity/SSO, RBAC, audit logging, encryption, and observability
- Experienced guiding engineers through code review, conventions, and pairing
- Capable of gathering requirements and communicating status to stakeholders
A Day in the Life:
- Lead development of a customer-specific implementation within the platform's architecture baseline
- Remain a primary implementor while directing a small team (2–6 engineers)
- Make account-specific technical trade-off decisions, coordinating with technical leadership on platform-level questions
- Gather requirements, prioritize delivery work, and communicate status to customer-facing stakeholders and internal leadership
- Guide engineers through review, conventions, and pairing
- Own releases end-to-end, including delivery into hybrid and air-gapped environments
What We Are Expecting From You:
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance; U.S. citizenship
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or similar (4 years of experience may substitute)
- 10+ years of experience in the design, development, and deployment of software systems
- Fluency with AI-native IDEs
- Strong version control habits
- Understanding of hybrid deployment (on-prem and cloud), including air-gapped deployment
- Practical experience with containers
- Skilled in at least two mainstream programming languages — language is secondary; expect to ship quickly in TypeScript, Python, and React, using tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores
- Familiarity with production cross-cutting concerns: identity/SSO/OAuth/OIDC, MFA, RBAC, session management, audit logging, encryption, object + relational storage, APIs, CI/CD, and observability
- Experienced across all phases of the software development lifecycle
- Experience gathering requirements, prioritizing delivery work, and communicating status to stakeholders
- Spends roughly 90% of time on hands-on implementation while guiding 2–6 engineers via review, conventions, and pairing; owns releases end-to-end
- Experience providing technical direction and leadership to less experienced staff
Nice to Have:
- Tech-lead experience on multi-service products
- Generative AI / agentic feature delivery experience
- Experience supporting RMF/ATO (security control evidence, finding remediation, accreditation documentation)
- Experience with physical security or facility accreditation practices, such as ICD 705 or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with tools used by security and compliance teams
ClearEdge is an established small business that values its employees and is committed to providing an environment where individuals can succeed and grow. We believe in developing our people, promoting from within, and fostering long-term career growth across the organization.
Our Core Values—Honesty, Integrity, Loyalty, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, and Accountability—guide everything we do. These principles shape our culture, inform our decisions, and drive our commitment to excellence in support of our customers and partners.
If this position is not the right fit, we encourage you to visit our Careers page to explore other opportunities at ClearEdge or connect with one of our recruiters at [email protected]. ClearEdge is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or similar (or 4 years experience substitute)
- 10+ years experience in design, development, and deployment of software systems
- Fluency with AI-native IDEs
- Strong version control habits
- Understanding of hybrid deployment (on-prem and cloud) including air-gapped deployment
- Practical experience with containers
- Skilled in at least two mainstream programming languages; ability to ship quickly in TypeScript, Python, and React
- Familiarity with identity/SSO/OAuth/OIDC, MFA, RBAC, session management, audit logging, encryption, object and relational storage, APIs, CI/CD, and observability
- Experience across all phases of the software development lifecycle
- Experience gathering requirements, prioritizing delivery work, and communicating status to stakeholders
- Ability to spend ~90% of time hands-on implementing while guiding 2-6 engineers and owning releases end-to-end
- Experience providing technical direction and leadership to less experienced staff
- Tech-lead experience on multi-service products (nice to have)
- Generative AI / agentic feature delivery experience (nice to have)
- Experience supporting RMF/ATO and accreditation documentation (nice to have)
- Experience with physical security or facility accreditation practices (ICD 705 or similar) (nice to have)
- Familiarity with tools used by security and compliance teams (nice to have)
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The Company
What We Do
ClearEdge is a mission-driven technology thought leader grown out of the Intelligence Community that provides software engineering, big data, cloud, data analytics, data visualization, and data science solutions and services. As a small business, we are personally committed to responding to our customers' requirements by attracting and retaining only top-tier engineers and field experts.
