Junior Software Engineer
About the role
Everforth ECS is seeking a Junior Software Engineer to work in an onsite capacity at our Springfield, VA customer site and/or our Fairfax, VA corporate office. You will serve as a Jr Software Engineer on a state-of-the-art ML/AI program focusing on integrating unique solutions and quick-wins to a government client. Leveraging Agile software development approaches and your experience with front-end and back-end technologies, you will lead technical efforts with participating parties across the government and tech industry to integrate multiple ML applications into a single-fused solution. Part of this responsibility includes participating in server-side and client-side work, enhancing existing applications through creative techniques that are mindful of technical resources and time constraints, and co-leading product direction and feature specification with community stakeholders and Program Manager. Fundamentally, we are interested in individuals who are motivated by the mission, find meaning in solving hard-problems, and recognize operating in a hierarchically-flat environment makes for better communication, collaboration, and coordination.
Responsibilities
- Participate in server-side and client-side work
- Enhance existing applications through creative techniques that are mindful of technical resources and time constraints
- Co-lead product direction and feature specification with community stakeholders and Program Manager
Required Skills
- Must be a US Citizen
- Ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance with SCI + CI Poly
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related STEM field
- 0-3+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to develop, integrate, and troubleshoot software applications for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) solutions in C++, Python, Java, and JavaScript
- Strong attention to detail and high-quality code using robust design patterns
- Experience in both SQL, NoSQL and in-memory databases (PostgreSQL, Elastic, Redis)
- Ability to build real-time data pipeline and event-driven architectures (Kafka Streaming)
- Develop server-side apps and implement end-to-end distributed tracing and system monitoring (OpenTelemetry)
- Design and maintain resilient, high traffic microservices
- Proficiency in Python, C++, Node.js, and JavaScript
- Experience with Linux — system administration and scripting in Bash, Sed, and Awk
- Expertise in AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM), cloud cluster, and policy management experience
- API Integration & Development
- Experience with containerization/orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Rancher, OpenShift)
- Experience with DevSecOps frameworks (e.g. GitLab, Jira)
- Experience developing architecture/system diagrams and data flow diagrams
- Excellent communication/presentation skills to make recommendations to stakeholders with varying degrees of technical awareness
- Ability to quickly grasp and leverage new technologies
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Desired Skills
- Active Top Secret Clearance
- Data Science concepts familiarity
- Oracle Converged Database (RDF Graph DB, Text DB, Relational DB, Geospatial DB, etc.)
- RDF Graph DB (e.g., AnzoGraph, Stardog, etc.)
- Palantir Foundry Application Development
- Experience with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, and Oracle)
- Experience designing, coding, deploying, and supporting enterprise-level systems
- Experience with UI frameworks (e.g. React)
- Experience with automation engines (e.g. Ansible)
- Experience utilizing big data tools (e.g. Airflow, Django, Elasticsearch, Kibana, PostgreSQL)
- Experience with Geographic Information System (GIS) data
- Experience with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms
Pay
Salary Range: 90,000 - 110,000
Benefits
General Description Of Benefits