Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Federal

The role

You will build and support software for Red Cell Federal, Red Cell Partners, and their portfolio companies. This involves delivering user interfaces, backend services, APIs, and integrations for federal, government, and national security programs.

What you will do

• Build full-stack features including UI, administrative tools, backend services, and data models.
• Work with partner engineers and Product to clarify use cases and deliver increments.
• Integrate partner applications and agents with Trase OS APIs, SDKs, and model-provider endpoints.
• Build reliable agent and workflow integrations including asynchronous execution and error recovery.
• Create interfaces for configuring agents, managing connections, and inspecting logs.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and audit events.
• Adapt application configuration for customer-managed cloud, private-network, and on-premises environments.
• Own quality through code reviews, automated testing, and regression coverage.
• Diagnose and resolve partner-reported defects across the stack.
• Support releases, upgrades, and ongoing application maintenance.

Required qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on full-stack development.
• Strong frontend skills with TypeScript/JavaScript and React, Next.js, or comparable frameworks.
• Strong backend engineering skills in Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, Java, or a similar language.
• Experience designing data models and working with relational databases, migrations, caching, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secure API access, secrets handling, and audit logging.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing, code review, Git, containers, CI/CD, and cloud or Kubernetes environments.
• Ability to debug across browser, service, API, and data layers.
• Strong technical judgment and clear written and verbal communication.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools.

Nice to have

• Prior full-stack software engineering experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or other government programs.
• An active U.S. government security clearance.
• Experience with federal application security and delivery requirements, such as STIG hardening, NIST controls, RMF/ATO evidence, FedRAMP, or DoD impact-level environments.
• Experience integrating identity providers such as Keycloak using OAuth/OIDC, or implementing fine-grained access and sensitive-data controls.
• Experience building AI/LLM applications, agent integrations, RAG, tool/MCP connections, evaluations, or workflow systems such as Temporal.
• Customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering experience.
• Experience adapting applications for government cloud, restricted-network, or on-premises deployments.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement.
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Trase Systems is an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise.