Full Stack Developer

Recro, a Certified Small Business, helps federal agencies achieve their goals through IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud services, and digital transformation. We prioritize innovation, employee growth, and a collaborative work environment, guided by our core value - to make a difference.

Currently, Recro is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Full Stack Developer to join our team inwith hybrid options.

You will design and deliver complete applications; from database schema to API layer to the interface a mission user opens every morning. The team supports an established platform application while simultaneously standing up pilot solutions and custom MVPs for emerging requirements.

The team deploys across multiple AWS partitions and classification levels. You will work with Terraform for infrastructure, GitLab for source control and CI/CD, and AI-assisted development tooling as a standard part of your workflow - not as an experiment, but as an expectation .

Clearance:

• TS/SCI

T echnical Requirements:

• Strong Python development is the cornerstone of this role. You should be deeply comfortable with Django or equivalent frameworks, API design patterns including Backend-for-Frontend architectures, Pydantic-driven validation, and async Python in production. This is where the majority of your backend work lives.
• Equally important is your ability to build real frontend experiences. We need developers who can deliver polished, responsive interfaces in React or Next.js. Complete applications with thoughtful component design, effective state management, and the kind of attention to user experience that turns a functional tool into something people actually want to use. If you consider yourself "backend with some frontend," this role will stretch you.
• You should bring solid relational database skills centered on PostgreSQL, including schema design, performance tuning, and data migration. Experience with Aurora is a plus. You will periodically work with data loading and transformation tasks; bringing structured and unstructured sources into clean, well-modeled relational schemas.
• Familiarity with Keycloak, OIDC, SAML, JWT-based sessions, and certificate-based authentication (CAC/PIV) is important. You should understand how to implement role-based access control and secure token handling in applications where trust boundaries are non-negotiable.
• You need practical AWS experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications across classified partitions. Core services like EKS, Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC, and KMS should be familiar territory. Everything runs in AWS. Infrastructure is managed through Terraform, and you should be comfortable reading, writing, and maintaining modules.
• You should understand secure development practices, secrets management, least-privilege patterns, and the fundamentals of building applications that operate in STIG-hardened, FIPS-validated environments. You will work with DevSecOps scanning outputs across static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, and SBOM verification. The platform manages the toolchain; you are responsible for understanding the results and incorporating them into your development cycle.
• AI-assisted development is a required competency. The team leverages these tools extensively for velocity, consistency, and quality. You should already be using them in your daily work and understand both their capabilities and their limitations.

• Python backend development (Django, FastAPI, or equivalent; async/ASGI; modern Python 3.13+)
• Frontend development with React, Next.js, or equivalent (production UIs, not prototypes)
• RESTful API design including BFF patterns and schema validation
• PostgreSQL - schema design, query optimization, migrations, data loading
• AWS - deploying and operating applications across classified partitions and regions
• Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Keycloak, OIDC, SAML, or CAC/PIV authentication integration
• Secure application development for STIG-hardened, FIPS-validated environments
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows
• DevSecOps scan interpretation and remediation (SAST, DAST, SCA, SBOM, container scanning)
• AI-assisted development tooling in daily practice
• 5+ years hands-on development (or equivalent demonstrated capability)

• Incorporating generative AI capabilities into applications (RAG pipelines, LLM integration, or embedding-based search)
• Migrating legacy systems and data sources into modern cloud-native architectures
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes/EKS and Helm
• Hardened container supply chains and FIPS-validated image pipelines
• NIST 800-53 security controls and their practical application to software design
• Multi-classification or cross-partition deployment architectures
• Familiarity with intelligence community environments and DoD mission systems

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401k - 6% matching and 401k profit sharing
• PTO - 120 Hours
• Federal Holidays
• Education and Tuition Reimbursements
• Wellness Benefits
• A lot of cool gear!

• - We are building a culture at Recro where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you are ready to grow your career and recro (re-invent) the way our clients operate, you have come to the right place.
• - Employees are treated like people, not line items. We work smart when we can and hard when we must but we always do it together, as a team. We are a team with tons of passion and enthusiasm to blaze new trails and improve the state of our clients, the broader community, and even the world.
• - We believe diverse perspectives improve each challenge that we face. We trust and enable our amazing people to accomplish amazing feats. At Recro, you will be empowered to deliver your best work.
• - We believe in our people and maximizing your potential. At Recro, we continue to look into the future and invest in each other through teamwork, collaboration, and training