How It Works

Where engineers become ready for work at national scale.

Not every engineer is ready on day one. Ours are.
Here’s how we get them there.

No slideshows. You build, you ship, and you’re reviewed to the standard federal missions hold. You finish Day-One Ready.

What we look for

Exceptional doesn’t always look obvious at first.

We look beyond pedigree and polished resumes for the signals that matter most: how you think, how you learn, and what you do when the answer is not obvious.

Debugging Tenacity

You stay with problems others walk away from. You work through ambiguity, test what is not working, and keep going until you find the answer.

Code Craftsmanship

You care how software is built, not only whether it runs. Your work reflects clear thinking, strong engineering habits, and disciplined execution.

Learning Velocity

You absorb quickly, adapt fast, and turn feedback into better work. You are not waiting to know everything before you start building.

What to expect

The first step is easy.
The rest is earned.

Applying is only the beginning. From technical evaluations and hands-on challenges to conversations with our team, the process is designed to understand how you think, solve, learn, and build.

The exact steps may vary, but every candidate should expect to stay engaged, follow through, and complete the process before training begins.

Apply

Start the process

Submit your application and show us where you are today.

Evaluate

Show us how you work

Complete a structured series of technical challenges and conversations designed to understand how you solve problems, respond to feedback, and follow through.

Train

Level up your skills

If selected, you’ll join Fedstack as a full-time employee for eight to ten weeks of paid, immersive training designed to deepen your capabilities, strengthen your judgment, and prepare you for the federal program you’ll support.

Deploy

Put your skills to work

Begin your full-time role supporting a federal technology client, prepared to contribute as part of the engineering team from day one.

How we prepare you

Build across the modern engineering stack.

Develop practical experience across full-stack development, AI, cloud, data, APIs, observability, and secure software engineering, while learning how those disciplines come together in complex systems.

Full-Stack Development AI Applications AI Agents Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) API Development & Management Cloud Architecture Data Engineering Data Processing Application Security DevOps Observability Software Architecture
Train across the platforms powering modern software and AI.
Why it works

Ready on Day One.

Most new engineers spend six to nine months just learning the environment and leaning on senior teammates. On federal programs, where senior engineers are scarce, that’s a cost the mission feels.

You spend those weeks building instead. Through Mirrored Environment Immersion (MEI™), your training runs inside a replica of a real federal program, so on day one you can pull tickets, unblock yourself, and ship. That’s what Day-One Ready means.

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Get paid to get ready.

Candidates selected for training become full-time Fedstack employees from day one, with paid, immersive preparation designed to support long-term success in federal technology.

Where it leads

A start designed to take you further.

Fedstack is not a temporary stop or a training program disconnected from the work. You are hired full-time, prepared for a federal engineering role, and given the foundation to keep growing long after you arrive.

98%
Remain with client teams after 2+ years
100%
Trained to grow beyond where they started

Good engineers recognize the opportunity.
Exceptional engineers make something of it.

Bring the ability. Fedstack provides the environment, preparation, and access to take it further.

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