GRID09 Back End Software Developer with Security Clearance

GRID09 Back End Software Developer Location: Reston (3 days per week in office)

About Us: Our client is a world-class telecommunications consulting firm supporting clients with product development, business operations, network maintenance, and supply chain services. At Grid, we develop products and services to meet customer needs with a focus on mobile connectivity, backbone networking, and IoT solutions leveraging expertise in 3GPP 5G/4G/LTE/3G and VSAT communications technologies.

About the Role: We are seeking a talented and motivated Back End Software Developer to join our Software Engineering team. You will be working collaboratively to design, develop, deploy and maintain back-end services that power our innovative solutions. This is a flexible in-office position and an excellent opportunity to contribute to solutions that power the next generation of telecommunications solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain robust, scalable back-end services
• Develop clean, well-documented, and testable code, adhering to industry best practices
• Lead and participate in architectural discussions
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring high availability and performance
• Contribute to the automation of our infrastructure and deployments
• Contribute to improving our engineering practices and standards

Qualifications: Technical Skills

• Expertise with library and web service APIs including REST and gRPC
• Expertise with message-bus architectures and message queue implementations
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang (Go), Python or Typescript
• Experience working with microservice architectures
• Solid understanding of Linux operating systems
• Experience with containerization technologies and virtualization (Docker, VMware)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Experience with SQL and relational databases

Professional Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related field
• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong time management abilities to meet project deadlines.
• Reliable and demonstrates a professional work ethic.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn new technologies quickly.

It would be even better if you have experience with:

• DevOps CI/CD using GitLab, GitLab runners, or Ansible/AWXAgile/SCRUM development processes
• RabbitMQ, WAMP, AMQP or other message queue libraries
• Networking and security protocols (TCP/IP, TLS)
• AWS cloud services and general cloud computing principles
• Infrastructure-as-code tools, like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Monitoring and logging tools, like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack
• Familiarity with aspect of 3GPP cellular communications (5G NR, 4G LTE, 3G WCDMA) systems such as the air interface, RAN or CoreNET