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# Software Engineer 1 / 2

- **Company:** Akina, Inc.
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $294,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Signals Intelligence, Elasticsearch, Protocol Buffers, JSON, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, ReactJS, Backend, Gitlab, Fastapi, Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (SASS), Kubernetes, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/01a2442a-2674-4ddf-bd6a-bd64148925f2

## About the Role

* Python, FASTApi, JavaScript, JSON, CSS
 * Building conventional Rest Services
 * Querying MongoDB, Elasticsearch
 * Working within a Docker / Compose enabled environment
 * Using Gitlab, Jira
 * Moving between frontend and backend development
 * AI assisted development
 * Eager to learn, energetic, and highly motivated junior developer

Position Desired Skills:

 * Backend skills with Golang, Protobuf
 * Frontend: React, SASS/LESS, Leaflet (UI map library)
 * Elasticsearch index management
 * Experience with Kubernetes

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science (BS) in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) related field.

SWE-1 Qualifications:

BS+7 years experience

## Description

Seeking a young and energetic engineer to provide customer support and infrastructure services with quick response capabilities for SIGINT and Cyber Solutions.

 * Provide customer support and infrastructure services with quick response capabilities for SIGINT and Cyber Solutions.


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