Full Stack Software Engineer

About Science and Technology Corporation

About Science and Technology Corporation (STC): STC is a U.S. government contractor providing scientific engineering and technical support to federal agencies with deep roots in NOAA NASA and DoD programs. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Hampton VA STC staff support a growing number of operational missions that monitor the Earth through Earth-observing systems and satellite platforms and through direct field research. STC also researches and investigates leading-edge observing technologies and assesses their applicability to operational missions. STCs NOAA Programs team supports a broad range of operational meteorological environmental and geospatial programs.

About the AWIPS HIVE Program

STC is seeking candidates to support the National Weather Service (NWS) on the AWIPS Application Environment contract (commonly referred to as HIVE). AWIPS (Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System) is the mission-critical platform used by forecasters at National Weather Service sites nationwide to analyze environmental data and issue the forecasts watches and warnings that protect lives and property. Under the HIVE modernization initiative STC provides engineering and technical talent in direct support of a major cloud transformation effort to move AWIPS from a legacy desktop system to a modern cloud-native web application built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The program operates in a collaborative Agile environment and involves migrating complex operational meteorological workflows tools and data visualization capabilities to a microservices-based architecture with a React/TypeScript frontend and Java/Spring Boot microservices backend.

About This Role

STC is hiring a Fullstack Software Engineer to work across the HIVE programs two core repositories: a React/TypeScript micro-frontend monorepo and a Java/Spring Boot microservices backend together powering the operational data visualization and management platform at the heart of the AWIPS modernization effort. You will build end-to-end features from map rendering and data overlays in the UI down to the APIs caching and data contracts that serve them. This position requires US Citizenship.

Specific Duties Will Include

• Build fullstack features spanning the React/TypeScript micro-frontend monorepo and the Java/Spring Boot microservices backend

• Develop geospatial visualization components using MapLibre GL and/or within a module-federation micro-frontend architecture

• Implement RESTful API endpoints in a multi-module Maven monorepo of independently deployable microservices

• Write clean tested well-typed code following each repositorys established conventions

• Debug across the full stack from map rendering in the browser to caching behavior in backend services

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and contribute to Kubernetes Helm chart maintenance

• Implement JWT-based authentication and authorization workflows (OAuth2/OIDC)

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to technical design reviews

• Leverage AI-assisted development tooling (the program uses Claude Code extensively with CI-integrated AI code review)

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field

• 5 years of experience in fullstack web application development

• React 19 and TypeScript; building component-driven UIs at scale

• Geospatial visualization experience with MapLibre GL and/or

• Java 17 and Spring Boot 3/4; RESTful microservices in a multi-module Maven project

• PostgreSQL and Redis including cluster-mode caching considerations

• Docker and Kubernetes; writing and maintaining Helm charts

• GitLab CI/CD pipeline experience

• AWS services (AppConfig Cognito ECR or equivalent)

• JWT-based authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OIDC)

• 5 years of experience with AWS cloud services and development

• US Citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications

• Vite build tooling and Module Federation for micro-frontend architecture

• Zustand state management

• Tailwind CSS and accessible component libraries (React Aria Components or similar)

• Jest React Testing Library and Playwright for end-to-end testing

• pnpm monorepo workspace experience

• OPA/Rego policy-as-code for authorization

• GIS or geospatial domain experience

• AI-assisted development workflow experience

• Federal or government contracting background

• Understanding of weather data formats (GRIB NetCDF) and processing requirements

Work Arrangement

Fully remote.

Citizenship Requirement

US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status required.