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Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Federal

Trase · Seattle, WA or McLean, VA (Preferred) or Remote (USA) · Remote

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About Trase

Trase builds governed AI agents for healthcare, government, and enterprise — auditable, secure, and deployed where your data already lives. Backed by Virginia Venture Partners.

About the role

As a Senior or Staff Full Stack Software Engineer at Trase, you will build and support software for Red Cell Federal (RCF), Red Cell Partners (RCP), and RCP incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trase's dedicated RCF/RCP support team, delivering user interfaces, backend services, APIs, and integrations with a strong focus on federal, government, and national security programs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and supporting production applications, scope and technical leadership appropriate to Senior or Staff level
  • 5+ years of hands-on full-stack development spanning modern web frontends, backend services, APIs, and databases
  • Strong frontend skills with TypeScript/JavaScript and React, Next.js, or comparable frameworks, including state management, API integration, and clear, accessible user experiences
  • Strong backend engineering skills in Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, Java, or a similar language, including API design, service integration, validation, and error handling
  • Experience designing data models and working with relational databases, migrations, caching, and asynchronous or event-driven processing
More about this role

Trase is the operating system for high-stakes environments, providing end-to-end solutions for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI within industries where security, governance, and data sovereignty are non-negotiable.

Our HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant platform bridges the “last mile” of AI adoption, empowering sectors like healthcare and national security to run trustworthy, predictable AI agents across any model or environment—whether in the cloud, on-prem, or at the edge—with unified policy enforcement, continuous monitoring, and fully immutable audit trails.

Trase’s suite of products includes Origin, its agentic operating system; Leagues, its marketplace for specialized, configurable, ready-to-deploy agents; and Arena, where developers build, evaluate, and package the agents that run on Origin. The company has repeatedly topped Hugging Face’s GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, placing it firmly at the forefront of AI-agent innovation.

As a Senior or Staff Full Stack Software Engineer at Trase, you will build and support software for Red Cell Federal (RCF), Red Cell Partners (RCP), and RCP incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trase's dedicated RCF/RCP...

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