Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services
Position: Lead I - Software Engineering
Location: Bellevue, WA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field - or equivalent practical experience.
- 0 3 years of professional software engineering experience, including internships, co-ops, or personal projects that demonstrate full stack capability.
- Demonstrated ability to build and ship working software - through work experience, academic projects, open source contributions, or a portfolio of personal projects.
Frontend Skills:
- Working proficiency in React and TypeScript - able to build functional, maintainable component-based UIs; experience with component libraries (Material UI, Ant Design, or equivalent) is a plus.
- Genuine interest in user experience - ability to think from the user's perspective and produce interfaces that are clean, intuitive, and solve real workflow problems.
- Basic familiarity with data visualization concepts; exposure to libraries like D3.js, ECharts, Recharts, or react-flow is a bonus.
- Understanding of web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, browser rendering, and responsive design patterns.
Backend & Integration Skills:
- Working knowledge of Java and object-oriented programming; exposure to Spring Boot or Spring Framework for building REST APIs is strongly preferred.
- Understanding of REST API design principles and experience consuming third-party APIs - ability to read API documentation, make authenticated requests, and handle responses.
- Basic SQL proficiency - able to write queries to retrieve and inspect data from relational databases.
- Familiarity with JSON, XML, and common data interchange formats used in API integrations.
Infrastructure & Deployment Awareness:
- Basic understanding of application deployment concepts - familiarity with what it means to deploy a service to a server or cloud environment, even if hands-on enterprise deployment experience is limited.
- Exposure to containerization concepts (Docker) and cloud environments (Azure or AWS) is a plus.
- Willingness to learn enterprise deployment processes - including security reviews, platform onboarding, VM provisioning, and CI/CD pipeline management - with mentorship from senior team members.
Engineering Practices:
- Experience with Git-based version control and basic branching/merge workflows.
- Exposure to CI/CD concepts - understanding what a build pipeline does, even without deep hands-on experience configuring one.
- Commitment to writing readable, tested, and documented code - with openness to feedback through code review.
Soft Skills:
- Curiosity and eagerness to learn - energized by working across a broad stack and developing expertise in a new problem domain.
- Strong communication skills - able to ask good questions, communicate progress clearly, and collaborate effectively with teammates and governance stakeholders.
- Problem-solving mindset - comfortable digging into unfamiliar codebases, APIs, and systems to figure things out.
- Organized and reliable - able to manage tasks, meet commitments, and flag blockers proactively.
Must Have Skills:
- Working proficiency in React and TypeScript, with at least one meaningful UI project to show (work, school, or personal)
- Working knowledge of Java; exposure to Spring Boot for REST API development strongly preferred
- REST API integration experience - ability to read documentation, authenticate, and consume third-party APIs
- Basic SQL proficiency for data retrieval and inspection
- Git-based version control and collaborative development workflow experience
- Genuine UI/UX sensibility - designs with the end user in mind
- Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude and Cursor or similar IDE)
- Willingness and aptitude to navigate enterprise security, platform onboarding, and production deployment requirements with mentorship
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on Spring Boot experience building and deploying REST services to a server or cloud environment
- Exposure to enterprise deployment processes: CI/CD pipelines, Docker containerization, VM provisioning, or cloud infrastructure
- Prior experience with governance platform APIs (Open Metadata, Collibra, Ataccama) or data catalog tools
- Experience with data visualization libraries (D3.js, ECharts, react-flow) for building graph or relationship diagrams
- Familiarity with enterprise security concepts: OWASP top 10, secrets management, RBAC, OAuth2/OIDC
- Formal UX design experience - wireframing or prototyping tools such as Figma
- Exposure to observability tooling (Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana) for monitoring deployed applications
- Familiarity with data governance concepts: metadata management, data catalogs, lineage, data quality, or data classification
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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