Forward Deployed Full Stack Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)
TribalScale
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Shape the Future with TribalScale TribalScale is a digital innovation firm that helps organizations adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. We partner with clients to build transformative digital products, modernize technology platforms, and apply emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence—to meaningful business challenges. Our teams work closely with clients from strategy through execution. We value curiosity, ownership, practical innovation, and people who are comfortable turning ambiguity into action. Our Digital Expertise Transformation Experts: We transform traditional business models into agile, AI-powered ecosystems. Strategic Visionaries: We navigate the uncharted waters of technological evolution. Product Virtuosos: We orchestrate the creation of world-class digital solutions. Code Optimizers: We leverage AI to refine and perfect digital systems. Our Technological Toolkit Mobile & Web Development: (iOS, Android, React Native, React, Node.js) Voice-Activated Platforms: (Amazon Alexa, Google Home) Connected Ecosystems: (Cars and Homes) Streaming Platforms: (Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, tvOS) The TribalScale Professional You thrive in challenging environments where innovation is key. Your passion for technology is matched only by your drive to redefine its limits. You seek more than a job; you seek a calling—a chance to make a lasting impact on the digital landscape. The Opportunity We're looking for a Forward Deployed Full Stack Engineer who holds an active US Secret clearance to embed with a US government-facing client. You won't be handed a spec and left alone with a ticket queue. You'll work alongside the client's users and stakeholders, find out what they need, and build it and ship it into a secure environment, often in the same week. This role suits an engineer who's equally comfortable building a React front end, designing an API, debugging a deployment in a locked-down environment, and walking a non-technical stakeholder through a tradeoff. You'll be TribalScale's technical presence on site, so your judgment matters as much as your code. What You’ll Do 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. What We're Looking For 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. 5+ years of professional full stack development, shipping production software that real users rely on. 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…