Software Engineer – (Hybrid-Remote in NOVA area) – McLean, VA position requires a TSSCI Clearance with polygraph

Synertex LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to support a U.S. Federal Government Agency in McLean VA / Pentagon.

We are expanding work on a current contract and need a Software Engineer with experience in both front and back-end development to provide innovative solutions to the clients most pressing requirements. Additionally the Software Developer will have a keen understanding of open-source data development tools and processes.

This is a hybrid remote position based in the Northern Virginia area. The candidate will be required to travel to the classified work site in McLean VA and/or the Pentagon up to 3 times per week.

Join our team of data visualization experts to focus on delivering practical and efficient solutions in support of our clients incredibly important mission.

Benefits include competitive PTO 11 Paid Government Holidays a 401k with 6% match and a comprehensive list of health care options.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work within a team environment to develop a software-based platform that will facilitate rapid decision making and increased situational awareness across a variety of users disciplines and geographic locations.
• Build robust maintainable well documented and well tested enterprise-level applications.
• Design and engineer front-end UI components using TypeScript Material UI and modern JavaScript frameworks to deliver intuitive data visualization interfaces.
• Develop and maintain back-end services using Python Django FastAPI and/or Golang including RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
• Design and implement asynchronous data ingest and processing pipelines leveraging message queues (Kafka RabbitMQ) database triggers and multi-threaded/multi-process architectures to aggregate data from multiple sources.
• Containerize applications using Docker / Docker Compose and support CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Workflows GitLab CI/CD) for automated build test and deployment.
• Work on developing integrating and operationalizing full-stack advanced analytic web applications through the Authority to Operate (ATO) process on classified networks.
• Integrate with relational and NoSQL database technologies including PostgreSQL ElasticSearch/ELK Stack and AWS RDS Aurora.
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with the customer and other team members including managers data scientists DevOps engineers and other senior and junior/midlevel developers.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborate using JIRA Confluence and Git-based version control workflows.
• Read write speak and understand English.

MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS:

• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
• 610 years of software development experience
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related discipline
• Experience and knowledge of web application development using Python and Django
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks ( TypeScript JavaScript) and UI component libraries (Material UI ElasticUI)
• Experience using Docker / Docker Compose for containerization and deployment
• Knowledge and experience of classified government networks and Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS Aurora ECS/EKS VPC ALB S3 EC2 and CloudFormation
• Linux / UNIX experience (RHEL CentOS Ubuntu)
• Familiarity with Government ATO application compliance approval and deployment
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL MySQL) and search/analytics platforms (ElasticSearch Kibana)

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with Golang for REST/RPC microservices development
• Experience with FastAPI Flask or frameworks
• Experience with message queuing and event-driven architectures (Apache Kafka RabbitMQ)
• Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (Jenkins GitHub Actions/Workflows GitLab CI/CD Artifactory)
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Ansible CloudFormation or Terraform
• Data science or machine learning exposure (Jupyter Notebooks TensorFlow PyTorch Pandas NumPy)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• CompTIA Security or equivalent IA baseline certification
• Experience with geospatial visualization libraries (OpenLayers ESRI)
• Ability to provide technical guidance to team members lead application architecture discussions and mentor less experienced developers

Required Experience:

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