About HTX Labs

Since 2017, HTX Labs has been on a mission to accelerate the future of learning, employing immersive software training solutions and content development services for the Department of Defense to elevate the level of proficiency and preparedness of today's warfighter.

HTX Labs developed the EMPACT® Immersive Learning Platform to address a growing need to modernize training, improve safety, maximize operational efficiency, and build resilience and readiness across the defense industry.

HTX Labs is dedicated to driving learning innovation, providing the necessary digital infrastructure to empower users to easily create, deploy, measure, and sustain mission-specific, immersive training programs anytime, anywhere, on any device, with anyone, at scale.

Description

At HTX Labs, we are on a mission to accelerate the future of learning, delivering the premier immersive learning platform and experiential training content for the Department of Defense to build resilience and readiness of today’s warfighter.

We are looking for a versatile Lead Full Stack Engineer (.NET) with a passion for building scalable and reliable applications that help us evolve our immersive learning platform, EMPACT®, improve our customer experience, and deliver the best training experience to meet our customers’ needs.

As a Lead Full Stack Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical vision and execution of our projects. You will lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing directly to the design, development, and deployment of scalable, reliable applications. This position requires a blend of hands-on coding expertise, technical leadership, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of 3D artists, content producers, PMO, server engineers, Unreal Engine engineers, QA, Customer Success, and leadership, working in a fully-remote, fast-paced, agile environment.

Who you are:

• A systemic thinker
• Proficient in both front and back-end coding
• Take ownership of application efficiency and reliability
• Aim to minimize of production and engineering disruption
• Enjoy defining, setting, and utilizing new and better ways to design and development of software applications
• Understand how best to grow individuals in your team to see their full potential
• Advocate and stand up for your team to ensure they get what they need to do their best work
• Think of the long-term ramifications of people’s decisions to best steer the product in the path of most benefit and maintainability

Responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities will be to build tools and automation to support the CI/CD and game build processes both on premises and on cloud.

• Develop highly reliable, highly scalable server-side features utilizing Kubernetes, SQL Server, Kestrel, .NET Core, and C#
• Develop web services supporting VR clients, browsers, and mobile clients
• Tune real-time server systems for reliability and performance
• Design and tune high performance transactional RDBMS as well as NoSQL
• Understand various Level 4-7 network protocols to provide the best solution for connecting to various clients
• Know when to use various inter-service patterns such as buses, message queues, and RPC
• Work with the client platform team to integrate networking technology into Unreal Engine and other client technologies
• Implement system agnostic services to support Windows or Linux servers
• Develop web apps providing administration and analytics views
• Utilize external SOAP and RESTful APIs to connect the platform to partner platforms
• Provide live ops support for services
• Work with production to help choose work for the team and individuals that maximizes their growth potential
• Architect and design software solutions with the Director of Technology to aid in long-term planning
• Assist product leadership with roadmap planning and estimations
• Provide 1-on-1s with your team members to help discover issues, escalate problems to the appropriate people, and provide support to the individual
• Conduct regular performance evaluations with team members to provide constructive feedback, recognize achievements, and identify opportunities for growth and development
• Work with the design team to provide feasibility and prototypes for proposed mockups and user stories
• Lead the technical evaluation of candidates during the hiring process, providing input on interview design, assessing technical skills, and contributing to final hiring decisions to build a high-performing, cohesive team

Skills

• Strong understanding of C# and related technologies (e.g. Linq, Entity Framework, NuGet)
• Solid understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure or AWS
• Interest in VR and Serious Games
• Team oriented and collaborative
• Proven experience leading and mentoring development teams in an agile environment
• Ability to make architectural decisions, enforce coding standards, and drive technical excellence across the team
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, fostering collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Ability to manage competing priorities, ensuring timely and high-quality project delivery

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a full stack engineer
• Minimum 3 years of experience with .NET Core, MVC, and SQL Server
• 1-3 years of experience with Docker, Docker-Compose, and Kubernetes
• 1-3 years of experience with React, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS
• Minimum 1 year of leadership experience
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Must be authorized to work in the US

Job Type: Full Time

Work Location: Remote

Reporting Structure: Reports directly to the Director of Technology

Benefits

• Flexible Schedule
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401k Match
• Unlimited PTO

We’re constantly working towards making HTX Labs the best place to work, for everyone. We believe deeply that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our equally diverse community. We celebrate uniqueness and whatever makes you, you and encourage everyone who wants to help us transform the way the world learns, to join us on our journey. We value all types of experiences. If you don’t think you quite meet every qualification, we’d still love to hear from you. We are interested in qualified candidates who are eligible to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor work visas at this time.

htx.recruiting@htxlabs.com