Ultimate Knowledge Institute

Ultimate Knowledge Institute

Ultimate Knowledge Institute (UKi) is a small business based in Arizona, specializing in cybersecurity training, rapid prototyping, and custom software development. Founded in 1999, UKi delivers instructor-led, virtual, and customized training programs primarily for the U.S. Department of Defense, federal agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and international partners. The company has trained over 50,000 DoD personnel and is recognized for its strong performance ratings. UKi offers a range of services, including customized IT and cybersecurity training, learning management solutions, and rapid prototyping. They provide courses in information technology, information assurance, and emerging technologies, partnering with organizations like CompTIA and CertNexus. The company emphasizes real-world applications and aims to expand its offerings in prototyping and development by 2025. With around 80 employees and a revenue under $5 million, UKi is committed to innovation and customer satisfaction.

information technology & services
11-50
Founded 1999

Description

  • Build features end to end across the UI, API, data model, and deployment path.
  • Design and evolve the API layer, including data contracts, error handling, authentication, authorization, and typed interfaces.
  • Design, tune, and maintain Postgres schemas, queries, migrations, indexing, and database performance.
  • Deliver dashboards, competency visualizations, adaptive learning paths, assessment flows, and administrative tooling.
  • Set technical standards across the stack, including module boundaries, state management, testing, observability, and code review practices.
  • Engineer for performance across backend latency, database efficiency, browser rendering, bundle size, and load behavior.
  • Ship continuously through GitOps and CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD-driven Kubernetes deployments.
  • Collaborate with product, design, platform, and customer-facing teams to turn requirements into shipped software.
  • Mentor engineers as the team grows.

Requirements

  • 7+ years building and operating production web applications, including time in a senior or lead role.
  • Strong full stack experience across backend, database, and frontend troubleshooting and delivery.
  • Strong Node.js and Express experience, including routing, middleware, service layering, auth, API versioning, error handling, and testing.
  • Deep Angular expertise, including standalone components, signals or RxJS state, dependency injection, routing, lazy loading, and performance tuning.
  • React experience strongly preferred, including hooks, modern rendering patterns, and component composition.
  • Production PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, transactions, and indexing.
  • Cloud-native delivery experience with containerized applications deployed to Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on GitOps and CI/CD experience, including ArgoCD or Flux, Helm and/or Kustomize, and pipeline automation.
  • Strong architecture judgment across service boundaries, data modeling, state management, build tooling, and dependency choices.
  • Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing as part of normal delivery.
  • Comfort with continuous delivery culture and operational excellence.
  • Strong communication skills for both technical and business audiences.
  • Must be a US citizen authorized to work in the United States; role is US-remote.
  • Experience with AWS, especially GovCloud, is a plus.
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Helm is a plus.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or EFK is a plus.
  • Experience with event-driven or asynchronous processing patterns is a plus.
  • Design system or component library ownership at scale is a plus.
  • Background in enterprise learning, training, LMS, assessment, or workforce analytics platforms is a plus.
  • Familiarity with SCORM/xAPI, SSO/SAML/OIDC, or role-based access control in multi-tenant products is a plus.
  • Experience delivering software into government, DoD, or regulated environments such as FedRAMP, RMF, or STIGs is a plus.
  • Hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor is a plus.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Basic life insurance provided by the company.
  • Optional supplementary life insurance coverage.
  • Company covers 100% of individual premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability, and basic life insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with up to 4% match with a 5% contribution.
  • 15 days of PTO annually.
  • 12 company holidays, including 11 federal holidays plus Christmas Eve.

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