Software Engineer - Clearance Jobs

As part of ClearanceJobs, you will utilize your personal and professional knowledge and experience to build and improve features for the ClearanceJobs web application team. This team plays a crucial role in DHI’s product strategy by supporting our HR and job marketplace for recruiters to post jobs, curate leads and connect with our nation’s cleared work force.

We're seeking an experienced full stack engineer to work on ClearanceJobs.com, the leading career marketplace for security-cleared professionals. You'll work across a Laravel (PHP) backend, Vue.js frontends, and a MySQL data layer, contributing to multiple interconnected repositories spanning the main web application, internal REST APIs, background job workers, and Terraform-managed infrastructure.

The platform runs on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Lambda) and integrates with third-party services for recruiter tooling, identity verification, and analytics. Day to day, you'll ship features that shape how recruiters find and engage cleared candidates — candidate search and matching, workflow automation, job posting tools, messaging, and reporting. You'll own work end-to-end, from scoping with product through implementation, testing, and deployment via our CI/CD pipeline, on a small, senior team that values shipping over debating — we make pragmatic trade-offs, move quickly, and lean toward action rather than relitigating decisions.

The ClearanceJobs team needs added capacity to bring new features to market quickly without compromising on quality. We're looking for an engineer who is energized by shipping, someone who finds practical paths through hard or unfamiliar changes rather than treating difficulty as a reason to push back. You'll deliver web application improvements, strengthen our tests, contribute to platform work, and implement features efficiently in an established codebase.

Gain familiarity with the product and the infrastructure and codebase which is it composed of.  Develop an understand of how your team’s work fits into the broader picture and the market.

Take responsibility for delivering features and changes to systems, provide thoughtful code reviews, and contribute to product and engineering discussions. You will be trusted to make technical decisions and defend them clearly while staying open to feedback.

Work closely with engineers, product management, product design, and other business stakeholders to align on priorities and deliver incremental value. Help improve the team’s planning and execution rhythm.

Help assess and evolve our development practices, our codebases and our team processes to develop a well-designed product. Reduce technical debt, lead by example to drive technical excellence, and contribute to shared engineering standards and improvements.

• Proficiency with VueJS, TypeScript, Laravel and PHP 8 or similar frameworks
• Understanding of state management and component architecture
• Experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SES, CloudFront, and other core AWS services
• REST API and GraphQL API development
• MySQL and SQL query optimization
• Understanding of database migrations and schema management
• Terraform for infrastructure as code
• CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline)
• Docker and containerization fundamentals
• Git version control and collaborative development workflows
• Understanding of authentication/authorization (Sessions, OAuth, SSO)
• Experience with core AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFront, etc)

Healthy living - medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, disability, life, wellness & fitness programs
Future living - 401(k) match, performance bonuses, education assistance, learning & development
Enjoy living - generous paid time off, parental leave, flexible summer hours, social & giving events

You can apply below. You'll just need to provide your resume and answer a few questions—it'll only take you a few minutes!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.