Software Engineer (Backend Focus) with Security Clearance

We are seeking a Software Engineer (Backend Focus) to act as a senior back-end software engineer, helping to design and develop an entirely new graph analysis platform that – for the very first time – will allow our mission customers to visualize, analyze, and traverse their expansive and complex mission data in a graph format and in near-real-time. This is an ambitious, high-visibility project with a tremendous opportunity to transform core customer workflows; performance, usability, and scalability are key project goals.  Responsibilities: • Design and architect complex, enterprise-grade software solutions for a streaming analytic app that uses Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka. • Work with another senior back-end engineer to support the project's containerized environments in both Docker and Kubernetes. • Utilize Java and Spring Boot while applying leading design patterns to ensure the products scalability and maintainability. • Develop and optimize various streaming analytics to transform and analyze data in a performant way. • Become proficient with the project's Neo4j graph database; develop, optimize, and troubleshoot graph queries. Skills Requirements: • Expert with Java and Spring Boot; proficient using them to build enterprise scale applications. • Experience building real-time data processing applications using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams. • Understanding of common Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and how to apply them. • Experience with service containerization and deployment using Docker and/or Kubernetes. • Experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) software patterns to ingest large and complex datasets. • Familiarity with Git and GitLab CI/CD. Nice to Haves: • Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j. • Experience building real-time data processing applications using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams. • Experience modeling data and relationships in graph databases. • Experience with networking concepts, protocols, and analysis (routers, switches, etc.). • Knowledge of SIGINT collection and analysis systems. Benefits Overview:
We offer a well rounded benefits package to give our employees peace of mind and freedom of choice. • Three Carefirst medical plans available. We pay up to 100% healthcare premium and up to 100% of the deductible amount depending on plan selection for employee and their dependents. • We pay 100% for Carefirst Dental and Vision plans for employees and their dependents • 401k: 15% company contribution (no match required) • PTO 160 hours, increases with seniority • 12 Floating Holidays • 4 Code Red Days The projected compensation range for this position is $170,000 to $260,000 (annualized USD).