Applications Developer (Full Stack Developer - SME)
Full TimeJob Overview
REQUIRED: Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
LOCATION: Full-time onsite in Herndon, VA
LEVEL: Eight to ten years' experience
We’re seeking a Senior Applications Developer who will bring 8–10 years of hands‑on experience building robust web applications and UX/UI frameworks using Angular, React, or JavaScript, along with deep familiarity working in Linux systems and contributing within Agile teams using Scrum or Kanban. You’ll work with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and GitHub to drive collaboration and transparency, while designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications in AWS, C2S, or comparable cloud platforms.
Who We Are:
We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management.
Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence
Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.
Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.
LOCATION: Full-time onsite in Herndon, VA
LEVEL: Eight to ten years' experience
We’re seeking a Senior Applications Developer who will bring 8–10 years of hands‑on experience building robust web applications and UX/UI frameworks using Angular, React, or JavaScript, along with deep familiarity working in Linux systems and contributing within Agile teams using Scrum or Kanban. You’ll work with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and GitHub to drive collaboration and transparency, while designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications in AWS, C2S, or comparable cloud platforms.
Who We Are:
We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, staff augmentation, and IT program management.
Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence
Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.
Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.
Key Responsibilities
In this challenging yet rewarding role, you are an integral part of what brings our Company's mission to life. You must have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience in and/or with:
- Agile software development teams following Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for documenting work and team collaboration.
- Minimum 8-10 years building web applications and UX/UI frameworks using Angular, React or JavaScript with specific examples. Java Spring framework is a plus.
- Minimum 6-8 years working in Linux Operating system.
- Minimum 4-6 years of demonstrated experience with development and deployment of applications in the Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment or an Amazon Web Services cloud environment. Willing to consider to substitute C2S if candidate has a minimum 4-6 years of cloud computing technology to include Azure, Oracle, Google, etc.
- Minimum 2-3 years of demonstrated experience with search & analytic tools. Examples to include ElasticSearch, Solr, OpenSearch.
- Minimum 2-3 years of demonstrated (Extract, Transform, Load - ETL) with large structured and unstructured raw data sets.
- Minimum 2-4 years of demonstrated ability to design, develop, test and implement new applications based on project requirements.
- Ability to work individually as well as the ability to work in project teams. Proven ability in decomposing concepts to discrete development tasks and managing your work to a deadline.
- Minimum 6-8 years of demonstrated ability in microservices up to and including Docker, Podman, and or containerization services.
- Minimum 4-6 years in Object Oriented programming. Python is preferred software development language, but would consider Java, JavaScript, C#, SQL, Etc.
EDUCATION or EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or other relevant field and minimum of six years of experience (Master's degree equates to an additional 2 years of relevant work experience).
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or other relevant field and minimum of six years of experience (Master's degree equates to an additional 2 years of relevant work experience).
Highly Desired Qualifications
Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:
- Text analytics and its applications/role/use in business intelligence/business analytics (i.e. search, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, document categorization) whether through education or experience.
- Developing proof of concepts of new technologies and evaluating the state of the art in machine learning algorithms for text analytics whether through education or experience.
- Machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow whether through education or experience.
- Data visualization tools (i.e. Tableau, Pandas, D3.js, ggplot, etc) whether through education or experience.
- Relational or Non-Relational data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB whether through education or experience.
- Natural Language Processing tools such as spaCy, NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, or Gensim Natural Language Processing whether through education or experience.