Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Product (TS/SCI)

Careerscape is hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on behalf of a venture-backed defense technology company that builds AI software for U.S. national security customers.

This role is half product engineer, half forward-deployed. You'll join a new two-to-three-person team that is a top priority for the company: you'll spend time on-site with operators to understand their missions, then build and ship features into sensitive government environments. It's a chance to own real product work end to end with users who rely on it.

Compensation: $170,000 to $220,000 base salary, plus equity. Three hires.

Location: remote in the U.S., with New York City and the tri-state area preferred. Expect 40 to 50% travel to customer sites, mainly in the Washington, DC area and Tampa. An active U.S. security clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship full-stack product features (React, Postgres, Redis, S3) used by national security customers
• Work on-site with operators and analysts to understand their workflows and turn them into product
• Deploy and support software inside classified and sensitive customer environments
• Work with government IT systems such as data platforms, identity and access management, SIEM and cross-domain solutions
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape a new team and its roadmap

Requirements

• Active U.S. security clearance (TS/SCI preferred, Secret acceptable); U.S. person, no sponsorship
• 4+ years of full-stack or product engineering experience with React, Postgres, Redis and S3
• Experience building software for government or defense customers and deploying it into customer environments
• Hands-on experience with government IT systems (data platforms, IdAM, SIEM, cross-domain)
• Strong communication skills with customers and end users
• Bachelor's degree
• Comfortable with 40 to 50% travel
• Nice to have: LLM agent experience, DoD RMF

Benefits

• $170,000 to $220,000 base salary
• Equity
• Remote in the U.S.
• Join a new, high-priority team at a venture-backed defense tech company
• Work directly with the people who use what you build