BigBear.ai

Full Stack Developer

BigBear.ai
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2 years ago
Suitland, MD, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deliver end-to-end applications spanning database schemas, migrations, APIs, and user experiences.
  • Extend Django-based API gateways and services using modern API and Backend-for-Frontend patterns.
  • Build polished React/Next.js interfaces and dashboards for operational workflows.
  • Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, migrations, and legacy data transformations.
  • Integrate Keycloak authentication and authorization using OIDC/SAML, RBAC, and secure session and token handling.
  • Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications across AWS partitions and classification levels.
  • Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure modules and GitLab CI/CD workflows.
  • Interpret and remediate SAST, DAST, SCA, container-scanning, and SBOM findings.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools as part of daily engineering work.

Requirements

  • Active TS/SCI clearance is required.
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience or equivalent demonstrated capability is required.
  • Strong Python backend experience with Django, FastAPI or similar frameworks, async/ASGI, and modern Python is required.
  • Production frontend experience with React, Next.js, or equivalent is required.
  • Experience designing REST APIs, Backend-for-Frontend patterns, and schema validation is required.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL schema design, optimization, migrations, and data loading is required.
  • Experience delivering and operating applications on AWS, including classified partitions or regions, is required.
  • Experience with Terraform, Keycloak and/or OIDC/SAML/CAC-PIV authentication integrations is required.
  • Experience with secure development in STIG-hardened and FIPS-validated environments is required.
  • Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Git workflows, DevSecOps scan remediation, and AI-assisted development tools is required.
  • Preferred qualifications include GenAI application development with RAG, LLM integration, or embeddings/search; legacy modernization; Kubernetes/EKS and Helm; hardened container supply chains; NIST 800-53 controls; multi-classification deployments; and IC or DoD mission systems experience.

Tech Stack

AWSDjangoFastAPIGitLab CI/CDHelmKubernetesNext.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactTerraform
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About BigBear.ai

501-1,000 employees

BigBear.ai develops AI-powered decision intelligence software, computer vision, and modeling/simulation tools for U.S. defense, intelligence, federal civilian, and critical-infrastructure markets. It sells software platforms and contract services, often deployed in secure government clouds, to support mission planning, logistics, and cybersecurity. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker BBAI.

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