Senior Software Engineer

Expedition Technology, Inc.
Herndon, United States of America
20 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Herndon, United States of America

Tech stack

Training Data
JavaScript
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ubuntu (Operating System)
Command-Line Interface
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Computer Engineering
Relational Databases
Amazon DynamoDB
Identity and Access Management
Python
Object-Oriented Software Development
Systems Development Life Cycle
Systems Integration
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
System Availability
Database Optimization
Backend
GIT
Cloudformation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Git Flow
Kubernetes
Information Technology
REST
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Serverless Computing
Docker
Microservices

Job description

Expedition Technology (EXP), is seeking motivated software engineers to join our Solis team, whose mission is to develop, deploy, and maintain the Training Data Storefront (TDS). TDS is a central repository of AI/ML annotations and models serving the entire Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC). TDS plays a fundamental role in addressing today's critical defense and intelligence problems. We are seeking Software Engineers who thrive on backend development. We're looking for engineers who ensure that security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are considered when architecting solutions. We hire people who excel at what they do and empower them to innovate with flexibility and autonomy. As a member of our team, you will:

  • Work with an extremely talented, motivated, supportive and welcoming team in an Agile ecosystem to design new features for TDS, develop new capabilities using the latest open-source frameworks, and work directly with end-users to ensure TDS is solving their mission needs.
  • Develop features, bugfixes, and automated workflows for the system using Python 3, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services.
  • Embrace opportunities for technical leadership and mentor other team members
  • Drive technical discussions and be proactive in identifying and resolving issues.
  • Contribute to SDLC and coding best practices.
  • Develop and design RESTful APIs and streaming services.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

Requirements

  • An active TS/SCI security clearance
  • A minimum of 5 years of backend development experience, ideally in AWS Cloud environments
  • Fundamental understanding of cloud computing concepts (serverless, scalability, microservices, high availability, and durability)
  • Experience with integrating Kubernetes, Docker or other containerized ecosystems
  • Relational database design, implementation, configuration, and query experience
  • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining database indexesand/or optimizing database queries
  • Familiarity with object-oriented design and languages. Most of our developers write Python and/or JavaScript.
  • Comfortable working with Linux (Ubuntu) based operating systems (command line operations, scripting)
  • Configuration Management (CM) experience using Git and familiarity with branching strategies
  • Enjoy learning new technologies and creating compelling software.
  • Work with minimum supervision as part of a collaborative, agile team.
  • BA/BS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field

Extra credit if you have:

  • Interest in AI/ML algorithm deployment at scale.
  • 5+ years' work experience with AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFormation, EC2, ALB, IAM, and SQS (need not have experience with all)

Clearance required: Top Secret/SCI

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