- Company Name
- Stage 4 Solutions
- Job Title
- Full Stack Engineer – AI (Orlando FL)
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Full Stack Engineer – AI
**Role Summary**
Deliver a 12‑month contract solution for a global aerospace client, designing and developing a scalable AI‑driven full‑stack platform. Responsibilities include backend API development, modern React/Next.js front‑end, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, data security and compliance, disaster recovery, and integrating AI assistance tools to accelerate coding, testing, and design validation.
**Expectations**
- Build and maintain an end‑to‑end platform that meets performance, security, and regulatory standards.
- Deliver features on schedule, ensuring rigorous automated testing and code quality.
- Leverage LLMs (Claude or similar) for code generation, refactoring, and test creation.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with security, DevOps, and product teams.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Architect and implement scalable backend services (REST/GraphQL APIs) and deploy secure, high‑availability micro‑services.
- Create responsive dashboards, visualizations, and interactive components using React/Next.js and Shadcn UI Kit.
- Design and publish robust APIs for internal and external consumption.
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated linting, testing, build, and deployment to cloud and air‑gapped environments.
- Integrate third‑party services: email/SMS notifications, SCORM/xAPI/CMI5 learning‑management standards.
- Implement data integrity, archival, backup, and disaster‑recovery strategies across the stack.
- Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests; maintain high test coverage.
- Document APIs, data models, deployment procedures, and platform architecture.
- Use AI tools to automate coding tasks, generate tests, and validate design decisions.
**Required Skills**
- 6+ years delivering complex, data‑intensive full‑stack solutions.
- Proficient with GitLab (repos, merge requests, pipelines) and CI/CD best practices.
- Strong foundation in design patterns, automated testing, continuous integration, and code quality metrics.
- Experience with relational databases, messaging services, REST APIs, and object storage.
- Skilled in modern front‑end stack: React, Next.js, Node.js, Shadcn UI Kit.
- Knowledge of scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and DevOps tools (Ansible, Nexus, GitLab Runner, Harbor).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud or air‑gapped deployment models.
- Demonstrated use of LLMs (Claude preferred) for assisted development.
- Ability to design secure, compliant data pipelines and implement disaster‑recovery plans.
- Agile (Scrum/Kanban) experience and cross‑functional teamwork.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- U.S. citizenship; ability to obtain security clearance if converted to full‑time. All other qualifications are considered within the experience and skill requirements.