Senior Full Stack Developer
Index Analytics is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining web applications across both front-end and back-end stacks. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, creating user-focused solutions, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness of applications. The engineer will work on the full software development lifecycle, from conceptualization and coding to testing and deployment. The ideal candidate has strong proficiency in Python, front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular), and back-end technologies (e.g., Python, PostgreSQL, Redshift), with a solid understanding of DevOps tools, cloud services, and version control systems (e.g., Git, etc.). The Full Stack Developer will work in collaboration with the Tech Lead and participate in mentorship and coaching of more junior developers. Strong communications skills are required.
The customer is very mission-focused, technically knowledgeable, and provides excellent support. This is a challenging, stimulating role on a program that aims to make a real difference. The analytics system developed by the team at Index directly supports investigators, auditors, and other analysts working to identify and deter fraud, reduce waste, curtail patient harm, protect vulnerable children, and improve health outcomes for millions of Americans.
Responsibilities
· Design, develop, and maintain a bespoke full‑stack data analytics platform supporting investigators and auditors within a government environment.
· Lead, build and enhance front-end web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js, delivering intuitive, performant user experiences data analytics workflows.
· Implement data visualization components, including tables, charts, and dashboards, using libraries such as Plotly or D3 to present analytical results clearly and accurately.
· Develop and maintain back‑end services and libraries that persist and execute queries against Snowflake and seamlessly serve organized data to a web-based application.
· Support and improve CI/CD workflows and development environments using tools such as Git, Jenkins, Node.js, and cloud‑based IDEs (e.g., Coder, AWS Cloud9).
· Ensure code quality, scalability, performance, and security through peer reviews, automated testing, and adherence to engineering best practices and cloud governance standards.
· Write and maintain unit and component tests using Jest and React Testing Library to support regression prevention and long‑term maintainability.
· Work effectively within an Agile team, contributing to sprint planning, stand‑ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
· Collaborate with other engineers to evaluate technical options and troubleshoot complex issues.
· Collaborate closely with product owners, stakeholders, and cross‑functional engineering teams to gather requirements, document business rules, and translate investigative and audit use cases into technical solutions.
· Independently own and deliver development tasks while proactively seeking feedback and input from teammates as needed.
· Contribute to project documentation, knowledge sharing, and team communication using Jira, Confluence, and related Agile tooling in the context of a larger multi‑team program.
Qualifications
Qualifications
· US citizen or Authorized to Work and lived in the US for 3 of the last 5 years. Must be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge and pass a government Public Trust.
· BS with 4+ years of relevant technical experience.
· 4+ years of experience building full-stack applications using JavaScript technologies
· 4+ years of experience developing front-end web user interfaces with React
· Experience with Python and designing RESTful backend microservices and developing them using Node.js
· Experience with version control tools, such as Git
· Preferred, but not required: data engineering experience such as building and maintaining scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS and Snowflake.
Disclaimer
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