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TribalScale - Forward Deployed Full Stack Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Remote - USA6d ago

Requirements

• An active US Secret clearance (or higher) and the ability to maintain it. US citizenship is required. We can't sponsor a new clearance for this role. • An active US Secret clearance • 5+ years of professional full stack development, shipping production software that real users rely on. • 5+ years of professional full stack development • Strong front-end skills in TypeScript and a modern framework (React preferred). • Strong back-end skills in at least one of Python, Node.js, Java, or Go, plus REST and/or GraphQL API design. • Relational database experience (PostgreSQL or similar), including data modeling and query performance. • Hands-on with containers and CI/CD. Docker is a must; Kubernetes or OpenShift is a strong plus. • Hands-on with containers and CI/CD. • Cloud experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Government regions (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) are a plus. • Client-facing confidence. You've worked directly with end users or customer stakeholders, and you can explain technical tradeoffs in plain language. • Client-facing confidence. • AI-native development habits. You already use AI coding tools in your day-to-day work and know where they help and where they don't. • AI-native development habits. • Comfort with ambiguity. You can make progress, and make sensible calls, without a fully formed spec. • Comfort with ambiguity. • We recognize that strong candidates may not meet every qualification listed. If this role excites you and your experience is adjacent to what we have described, we encourage you to apply. • Prior forward deployed, field engineering, or embedded consulting experience. • Experience deploying into air-gapped or disconnected environments. • Familiarity with NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO processes, DISA STIGs, or FedRAMP. • A DoD 8140/8570-aligned certification (e.g. CompTIA Security+). • Experience building with LLMs: RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation, or running open-weight models on approved infrastructure. • An active TS or TS/SCI clearance. • What Success Looks Like • In your first few months, you will have built trusted relationships with client and TribalScale teams, developed a strong understanding of the client’s operating environment, and contributed working software to a meaningful business challenge.

Responsibilities

• Embed with the client team. Work on site and remotely with end users, product owners, and the client's technical and security teams to understand their workflows firsthand. • Embed with the client team. • Build full stack, end to end. Ship production features across the front end, back end, data layer, and infrastructure. You own a feature from the first conversation through deployment. • Build full stack, end to end. • Deploy into secure, constrained environments. Get software running in on-prem, government cloud, or restricted networks, where the tooling and internet access you're used to may not be available. • Deploy into secure, constrained environments. • Turn ambiguous needs into working software. Prototype quickly, put something real in front of users, and iterate with them. Don't wait for a perfect requirements doc. • Turn ambiguous needs into working software. • Integrate AI where it earns its place. Build LLM-powered features and agentic workflows that fit the client's security and data-handling constraints, including working with self-hosted or approved models. • Integrate AI where it earns its place. • Work within the security process. Write code and documentation that hold up under security review, and partner with the client's ISSO and compliance teams on authorization requirements. • Work within the security process. • Be the bridge back to TribalScale. Bring field insight to our broader engineering and product teams, and pull in TribalScale specialists when the engagement needs them. • Be the bridge back to TribalScale.

Benefits

• You'll do work that matters to the people using it, and you'll see the impact up close because you'll be sitting with them. You'll have the independence of a forward deployed role with a full AI-first engineering firm behind you: product managers, designers, and engineers who are shipping agentic systems in production for enterprise clients. We value judgment, speed, and honesty over process for its own sake. • At TribalScale, collaboration is at the heart of our innovative approach. We don't simply work for clients; we form partnerships, building transformative solutions that redefine what's possible. Our team, once at the forefront of the mobile revolution, now leads the charge in AI-driven innovation. • We empower each team member to be a catalyst for change, adhering to our principles of meritocracy, empowerment, and transparency. Diversity isn't just celebrated—it's fundamental to our strength. Our mission to "Right the Future" is a call to action to make a significant impact in the world of innovation. • Diversity: Our Collective Strength • TribalScale proudly stands as a beacon of equal opportunity in employment and workplace culture. We are steadfastly committed to equal employment opportunity, transcending the boundaries of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, able-bodiedness, or gender identity. • We not only welcome but actively encourage applications from individuals of all abilities, ages, citizenships, marital statuses, and gender identities. Your unique perspective is the key to our collective innovation. • Should you require any accommodations, we implore you to inform us. Our commitment to inclusivity knows no bounds, and we stand ready to adapt our processes to ensure your comfort and success.