Software Engineer (SWE), Level 2 [D.26.0244]

Description: Join a high-impact, mission-driven team as a Full-Stack Software Engineer, supporting a mature and well-established technical organization. You’ll be a member of a small 3-4 person team, which plays a critical role within a broader 20+ person development organization. Together, the team supports a robust web-based platform that integrates diverse publicly available information (PAI) sources into a powerful analytical tool used by hundreds of mission customers. In this role, you’ll contribute across the stack, developing ingest pipelines, building scalable REST APIs, and enhancing user-facing visualizations. The platform supports large-scale data ingestion, complex queries, and interactive analysis. You’ll collaborate closely with other sub-teams on the project to ensure end-to-end functionality and performance. We’re looking for a developer who is excited to contribute to all aspects of this system and who also brings an interest in improving team processes and, * Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of a mature software system through code development, testing, documentation, and Jira task management.

• Assist with the design and implementation of new data processing workflows.
• Leverage established design patterns and AI platforms to streamline code development, data transformation, and schema management, ensuring the product’s long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Understand API-driven microservice design patterns, NoSQL databases, dataflow tools (Apache NiFi), and modern web frameworks.
• Contribute to all parts of the data processing lifecycle, from collection to processing to storage, and facilitate presentation to analysts in our UI.
• Maintain a team player mentality as a collaborative member of a fast-paced, structured team.

tooling, particularly in ways that help us integrate new data sources more efficiently and deliver faster. This long-running software effort is known for its technical stability, team cohesion, and deep integration into mission-critical systems, offering you the opportunity to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment., * Java experience.

• Proficiency in at least two of the following:
• Modern JavaScript frameworks (VueJS, React, Angular, etc.)
• Spring Boot Rest APIs and Spring Libraries (Spring Security, Spring Data, etc.)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, Dgraph, etc.).
• Familiarity with Git for version control, and Maven and/or npm for build automation.
• Working knowledge developing in a Linux environment.
• Demonstrated willingness and ability to learn new tools, technologies, and workflows.
• Comfortable using task-tracking and documentation tools like Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Nice to Haves:

• Dataflow experience (e.g., Apache Nifi or similar tools), including data wrangling (discovery, mining, cleaning, exploration, modeling, structuring, enriching, and validating)
• Leveraged AI platforms to assist in hybrid automated/manual data transformation, code development, and schema management.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambdas, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) and automated testing (e.g., JUnit).
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting with Bash, Python, and/or Groovy.
• Knowledge of DevOps automation tools such as Ansible, Packer, and Terraform.

YOE Requirement: 8 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.

Salary Range: $176k-$192k per year with an additional $44k-$48k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions