Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VLS Systems Inc is a not-for-profit membership organization focused on providing excellence in education. They are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to develop and implement AI-driven and automated solutions for their Learning Management System (LMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms, ensuring high-quality software development and integration.
Responsibilities
- Candidate will be responsible for complex software development including coding, managing small sections of ongoing projects and closely adhering to deadlines
- Candidate will also take responsibility for creating design specifications, unit testing, and preparing technical documentation
- Candidate will ensure relationships with customers and cross-team members are professional and meet expectations
- A top priority of this role is advancing AI and automation development—building agentic-AI capabilities and AI bot automation testing that improve delivery speed and quality across the LMS (Learning Management System) platform and its integrations
- The Senior Full Stack Engineer will analyze procedures, and design and implement solutions that strengthen the organization’s Learning Management System (LMS) ecosystem and the learning experiences it supports, with a strong emphasis on AI-driven and automated development
- The Senior Full Stack Engineer will design, develop, implement, and deploy AWS cloud solutions and LMS integrations, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk, and promote efficiencies in support of the organization’s goals and objectives
Skills
- Agentic AI
- AWS Cloud Observability (ex. X-Ray)
- AWS Dynamo
- AWS Lambda
- AWS S3
- AWS - SNS/SQS
- AWS State machines
- JavaScript (ES6)
- Node.js
- React js
- SQL/RDS
- Demonstrated experience building AI-driven and automated development and testing solutions, including AI bot automation testing (script authoring and automated regression), agentic AI within software development, and AI-assisted / self-healing test maintenance
- Strong automation engineering across the SDLC: automated API integration testing, Playwright E2E, automated E2E browser testing, and CI/CD automation (CloudFormation, Jenkins, Git, AWS Code Pipeline)
- Minimum 7 years demonstrated experience with software development
- Strong and evolving competence in several programming languages and technologies, working knowledge of multiple tool sets, technologies and implementation environments especially in the cloud
- Expert level experience in React, NodeJS, Java and scripting in a Cloud based environment
- Demonstrated advanced experience with AWS Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS and DynamoDB, AWS CLI
- Possess strong technical skills and experience in the virtual infrastructure domain, specifically Amazon Web Services
- Strong design and development experience in building and monitoring microservices including UI
- Working experience on CI/CD using Git Actions
- Demonstrated experience in developing full stack, LMS-facing solutions using React and NodeJS
- Demonstrated experience building and supporting API-based and file-based integrations with LMS platforms and external systems, using standards such as LTI 1.3, SCORM, and xAPI
- Fundamentals in OO and computer science foundation principles
- Working knowledge of distributed architectural design patterns
- Knowledge of systems analysis and design (including OOAD and UML), and database design
- In depth clean architecture knowledge, Postgres DB scaling, AWS ECS/Kubernetes, Fargate
- Knowledge of software development, lifecycle and modern software engineering principles and practices
- Experience setting up DataOps and DevSecOps
- High analytical skills and knack to develop tools for monitoring high frequency data services
- Experience with LearnUpon and Workday API integrations (strong plus)
- Experience working on Agile teams with the scrum team member attitude – willingness to support the Team to be successful in any area necessary
- Advanced demonstrated experience with AWS cloud supported programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
- Ability to use: KMS, ALB/ELB, Route 53, VPC
- Fluency with CI/CD toolsets such as: CloudFormation, BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible
- Experience with relational databases, and NoSQL databases
- Experience building infrastructure as code using AWS CloudFormation or similar scripting techniques
- Appetite to Learn new things
Company Overview
VLS Systems is an information technology company that provides system integration and custom software development services. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://vls-systems.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
VLS Systems Inc has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 7 in 2025, 11 in 2024, 16 in 2023, 15 in 2022, 29 in 2021, 75 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.