Top Secret Full Stack Developer
Insight Global · Lee, VA
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Jul 14, 2026
Lee, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack developer role on a government-facing ML/AI research, development, testing, and evaluation program. The work centers on integrating multiple machine learning applications into a unified solution, covering both server-side and client-side development, ETL pipelines, real-time data architectures, and microservices. An active Top Secret clearance is required, and the role suits an experienced engineer comfortable across a broad range of cloud, database, and DevSecOps tooling.
Mid level · 3+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Location is not specified in the posting. Given the government/cleared nature of the work (TS/SCI with Polygraph path), this is likely an on-site role at a government facility, but no city or state is mentioned.
The clearance gate is stated as 'Active Top Secret' (hard requirement) with the ability to obtain TS/SCI with Polygraph — the active TS is the hard gate; TS/SCI with Poly is aspirational/growth. Clearance is set to TopSecret accordingly.
The experience range is unusually wide (3–10+ years), spanning Mid through Senior. The lower bound of 3 years is used for the overall years minimum, which places the seniority at Mid; a candidate at the upper end would be Senior.
The posting lists a single undifferentiated requirements block with no 'Nice to have' or 'Preferred' section. Skills such as React, Ansible, Airflow, Django, Kibana, Oracle, Palantir Foundry, Azure, GIS, and ML algorithms appear in a trailing list that reads as stack context and desirable extras rather than hard gates, and are marked preferred accordingly.
GitLab and Jira are listed together under DevSecOps frameworks; they serve different functions (source control vs. project tracking) but are grouped as a single requirement here — GitLab is named as primary with Jira in alternatives.
The alt SOC (15-1243 Database Architects) reflects the significant ETL, multi-database (SQL/NoSQL/graph/in-memory), and data pipeline emphasis, though full-stack software development is the primary framing.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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