Senior Developer (Full Stack) Remote From Anywhere In Colorado

Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado

The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve. But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration. We're building one of the nation's leading government IT organizations by reimagining how we support agencies, building first-of-their-kind applications, and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture, together. Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services.

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer (Full Stack/Cloud) to serve as a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, developing, and supporting scalable full-stack applications and serverless cloud solutions, and essentially providing reliable services for State of Colorado residents.

This role requires deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React and/or Angular, Node.js/NestJS, REST APIs, SQL Server, and AWS. The Senior Developer will work across the full application lifecycle and will be expected to make sound architectural decisions, lead complex technical initiatives, mentor other developers, and establish development standards and best practices.

To be successful in this role, you will be comfortable operating in a modern serverless environment and troubleshooting complex issues spanning the frontend, backend, database, APIs, and AWS infrastructure. This role offers an opportunity to take full ownership of complex technical implementations, architectural decisions, and the continuous evolution of serverless AWS architecture. In this role, you will independently troubleshoot issues across full-stack technologies—including React/Angular, Node/NestJS, SQL Server, and APIs—while establishing robust development patterns to enhance application reliability, security, and performance. Beyond technical execution, you will provide leadership by mentoring developers, leading code reviews and design discussions, proactively identifying risks, and balancing delivery deadlines with long-term engineering quality and technical debt.

Essential Duties:

• Design and implement scalable, maintainable full-stack applications.

• Develop backend services using Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Fastify, TypeORM, and REST APIs.

• Develop modern frontend applications using React and/or Angular with TypeScript.

• Design effective API contracts and maintain Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.

• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability issues.

AWS & Cloud Architecture

• Architect solutions using AWS.

• Establish appropriate patterns for Lambda-based services, API routing, authentication, logging, monitoring, and error handling.

• Design scheduled workloads using AWS Scheduler.

• Contribute to the implementation of AWS Step Functions as the platform evolves.

• Evaluate cloud architecture decisions for security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.

• Troubleshoot complex production issues across AWS services and application components.

• Establish effective application logging, monitoring, and observability practices.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership for development initiatives and complex projects.

• Establish and enforce development standards and best practices.

• Conduct thorough code reviews focused on correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and architecture.

• Identify technical debt and help prioritize remediation efforts.

• Help establish standards for testing, API design, frontend architecture, AWS usage, and application observability.

• Work closely with product owners, architects, QA, DevOps/cloud engineers, and other stakeholders.

Testing & Quality

• Establish effective testing strategies across frontend and backend applications.

• Develop and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using Jest and appropriate testing frameworks.

• Ensure new features are appropriately tested before release.

• Identify gaps in test coverage and improve automated testing practices.

• Troubleshoot defects and production incidents through systematic root-cause analysis.

A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

To better understand your qualifications and increase your opportunity to move forward in the selection process, please indicate in your work history for each job the outcomes you have achieved that you believe are most relevant to this job.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum of five (5) years of software development experience, including experience with JavaScript, React and/or Angular, Node.js. and experience developing RESTful APIs.

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

• Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

• If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing software architecture.

• Professional experience with AWS cloud services.

• Experience with serverless architecture, particularly AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and clean architecture.

• Experience with Jest unit and e2e testing.

• Experience with Swagger/OpenAPI.

• Advanced AWS experience across Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, EventBridge, Scheduler, Secrets Manager, and Cognito.

• Experience with CI/CD and automated deployments.

• Experience with application observability, logging, metrics, and distributed troubleshooting.

OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work.

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Post-employment background checks will be required for specific agencies as business needs dictate, which may include a polygraph exam, fingerprint-based criminal history search, reference checks, and a drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

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The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at OIT_HR@state.co.us or call (303) 764-7900.

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