Full Stack Developer (TS/SCI + Poly)

Description

The DarkStar Group a GRVTY Company is seeking a Full Stack Developer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon VA. Below is an overview of the project as well as information on our company our benefits and our $25000 referral program.

THE PROJECT

The DarkStar Groups team provides tactical data engineering solutions. We embed skilled Data Engineers Data Scientists and ETL Developers directly into intelligence analyst groups to be their goto data wranglers. We develop new tools code and services to execute data engineering activities. Our engineers work to collect process and feed analytic tools turning data into intelligence in response to immediate mission needs with direct impact on real world situations. You will see your work used here on a daily basis and youll have the opportunity to support a variety of Sponsor mission organizations and mission partner organizations.

This is a time of development and growth on the program with an increasing number of missions being supported. The work is high impact and important and the customer moves quickly. The environment is fastpaced flexible and open to innovation youll have more latitude here in choosing how to achieve results than on many other projects. The customer cares more about what you can do as opposed to your years of experience and work hours are typically quite flexible roll up your sleeves get things done and no one cares much about the specific hours that you work. The work space itself is also quite nice and there is an excellent cafeteria!

The tech stack on this team is rather huge and includes Python (Pandas numpy scipy scikitlearn standard libraries etc.) Python packages that wrap Machine Learning (packages for NLP Object Detection etc.) Linux AWS/C2S Apache NiFi Spark pySpark Hadoop Kafka ElasticSearch Solr Kibana neo4J MariaDB Postgres Docker Puppet and many others.

Work on this program takes place in Chantilly VA McLean VA and in various field offices throughout Northern VA (we cannot support remote work) and requires a TS/SCI Polygraph clearance (acceptable to this customer).

THE ROLE

• The Full Stack Developer participates in development efforts to deliver a complete software solution. This position is for work across the cloudbased software development lifecycle (front end back end database cloud deployment and orchestration etc.). Design and implement all levels of the solution: data layer application code user interface. Design and deliver APIs and integrations with other software systems and databases. Architect for optimal use of enterprise infrastructure (cloud) and security requirements. Experience in the following: Delivering the design and development of software applications. Programming/coding from the data layer through the application layer through the user interface. Decomposing functional requirements into technical specifications and tasks. Software development frameworks and languages such as JavaScript TypeScript React Python etc. and data management tools such as SQL and XML. Developing and maintaining unit test scripts. Developing APIs and web services for integration between systems and data sets.

• Work with the Chief Engineer and Technical Leads to translate requirements into user stories to incorporate new functionality into various software applications
• Develop custom data processing functions and applications using data libraries in languages such as Python
• Interface with numerous frontend frameworks in order to display and interact with data in various formats
• Containerizing Java and Python microservices and deploying to an AWS cloud environment
• Develop and/or integrate with Infrastructure as Code DevOps tools to support cloud orchestration of software components
• Leverage AWS best practices to optimize code for cloud deployment with costconscious development and deployment strategies.
• Experience developing web APIs to interface with cloud applications and databases as part of cloud native software applications
• Experience working as part of an agile team to deliver software iteratively
• Experience working with opensource Python libraries and packages to speed to software development lifecycle
• Build automated testing frameworks and security scanning and integrating these tools into the CI/CD pipeline

Required Skills

• Minimum of 47 years experience with:
  • Design and development of software solutions at one or more layers of the technical stack (data application UI)
  • Programming languages particularly Python Java Javascript TypeScript SQL
  • Cloud application and data deployment in AWS (EMR EKS ECR RDS etc.)
  • DevOps tools and services (Kubernetes Terraform Docker Packer etc.)
  • Integration with applications and data across a platform (e.g. APIs)
  • Developing software within Agile methodologies

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. Were one of the Inc. 5000 fastestgrowing private companies in the US and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia Maryland and elsewhere. Data Science Software Engineering Cloud/AWS Infrastructure and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work job security some of the best and most flexible benefits youll find in the IC and salaries so strong that theyll likely surprise you.

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% companypaid medical dental and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you dont need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% companypaid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generouslyfunded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution;
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity so we are offering up to a $25000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

The DarkStar Group A GRVTY Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should emailwith requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.

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