Applications Developer

About

Level Up, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIAN, combines innovation, reliability, and top-tier cyber security and IT solutions. Based in Virginia, we boast over 150 years of collective experience and are committed to excellence, community impact, and resourcefulness. We join forces with AVIAN, an employee-owned company and one of America's fastest-growing private businesses, to deliver exceptional services to 80 government and commercial clients across 13 states. Our "The Level Up Way" includes supporting causes close to our hearts and inspiring meaningful change.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and define local and/or enterprise information system requirements
• Perform system/application design
• Develop capability prototypes
• Implement operational information systems
• Conduct unit and integration testing of application modules
• Participate in team environments via structured development lifecycles
• Engage in hands-on research and exploration of leading-edge commercial technologies

Requirements

• Experience in one or more of the following areas: Programming languages, web technologies, DevOps concepts, database platforms, hosting platforms, software architecture, systems engineering, UI/UX design, AI/ML development, SaaS platforms, and AI/ML development tools.
• Familiarity with multiple hosting platforms, such as Windows, Linux, VMware, Citrix, and cloud computing platforms.
• Experience working with stakeholders on creating solutions with varied, sometimes conflicting, requirements.

Desired Experience, Skills & Technologies

• Big data concepts and technologies, such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Solr, Cloudera, MapReduce, R, Spark, Kafka, NiFi, and the ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) or the OpenSearch stack.
• Application architecture and systems engineering principles, including n-tier/services-oriented architecture, application design patterns, Agile development (e.g. Scrum, Kanban), application security, developing system requirements, system design artifacts and models, design documentation and development for commercial cloud (e.g. Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc).
• Software as a Service (SaaS) Platforms development and customization (eg. Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Office 365).
• UI/UX design, wireframing and prototyping experience.
• Experience with tools such as Pen Pot, Figma, Balsamiq etc.
• Experience with AI/ML development including using tools such as Scikit-lean, Pandas and Spacy.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, telemedicine services, a TRICARE supplement for veterans, flexible spending accounts (FSA), a 401(k) plan with company contributions, and an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
• Additional perks like wellness reimbursements and referral bonuses.
• Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) coverage, disability benefits, and AFLAC supplemental insurance.
• Flexible time off, paid sick leave, maternity and bonding leave, and military training leave.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
• Pet insurance, identity protection, and life assistance programs.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $70,000 - $100,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This position requires an on-site presence and is not eligible for fully remote candidates.