Sr. Full-Stack Engineer (USPACOM)
Culmen International LLC1 day ago
Alexandria, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, integrate, and field secure software supporting USPACOM J32 joint targeting and fires-planning workflows.
- Develop operator-facing Target-Effect Pairing applications with ranked recommendations, alternatives, constraints, tradeoffs, and explanations.
- Build backend services for workflow orchestration, recommendation processing, review, adjudication, approval routing, deconfliction, and force-assignment support.
- Implement traceable auditability, data provenance, access controls, classification-aware handling, secure service communication, and tamper-evident audit capabilities.
- Integrate with Maven Smart System, object-management systems, simulation services, and command-and-control interfaces through secure APIs and event-driven patterns.
- Create automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and security tests for government acceptance and independent test and evaluation.
- Collaborate with USPACOM J32 operators, Joint Fires and Targeting subject matter experts, data engineers, security teams, and government system owners.
- Produce maintainable code, API documentation, architecture decision records, release notes, runbooks, and transition materials.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience delivering complex, data-intensive applications.
- Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks, backend services, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, relational or document databases, and automated testing.
- Experience building workflow, mission-planning, decision-support, command-and-control, or operational intelligence applications.
- Experience with data provenance, audit logging, workflow state management, access controls, and configuration or model versioning.
- Familiarity with containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and secure cloud or on-premises environments.
- Ability to translate complex operational and doctrinal processes into usable, explainable software and collaborate with operational users.
- Understanding of human-centered design for high-consequence workflows where recommendations are transparent, reviewable, and reversible.
- Eligibility for TS/SCI clearance; an active clearance is strongly preferred.
- Experience with joint targeting, Joint Fires, weaponeering, target-effect pairing, force assignment, or course-of-action analysis is desired.
- Experience with DoD classified environments, disconnected or restricted networks, Maven Smart System, operational data repositories, simulation engines, government interfaces, optimization or recommendation systems, independent testing, and government production deployments is desired.
Benefits
- Exceptional medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employee premiums fully paid by Culmen and dependent coverage available at a nominal rate.
- 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and a 4% company match.
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage.
- Supplemental insurance options.
- Training and continuing-education opportunities.
- 12 paid holidays.
- The role is onsite at the Mark Center in the NCR and requires the candidate to be located in the NCR and able to commute onsite.
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About Culmen International LLC
Culmen International is a privately held government services and international affairs firm headquartered in Alexandria, VA, founded in 2004. The company delivers contracted technical, management, logistics, procurement, research and analysis, and technology solutions to U.S. government agencies, multinational organizations, and foreign partners, spanning security assistance, export controls, foreign military sales, language services, data analytics, and agile software. It operates on six continents, with personnel based in 40+ countries and project work in 140+ countries.