Junior Software Engineer (TS/SCI CI Poly) (4405)

About the position

SMX is seeking a Jr. Software Engineer in our Chantilly, VA office in support of our Intelligence Community customer as part of a highly talented, highly motivated and high-performing team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research in design, development, testing and utilization of electronic data processing software.
• Design, develop, document, test and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
• Determine computer user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepare operating instructions.
• Ensure software standards are met.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.
• Coordinate software system installations and monitor system functioning to ensure specifications.

Requirements

• Clearance: TS/SCI CI Polygraph
• On site support Monday - Friday in Chantilly, VA
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. However, equivalent experience in lieu of a degree will be considered.
• Experience developing secure and well-tested API using Spring
• Experience developing frontends using JavaScript frameworks, preferably React
• Experience maintaining, monitoring, and debugging software deployed in the cloud, preferably AWS
• Experience developing performant relational database designs
• Experience migrating live databases in deployed environments, preferably with a migration tool like Liquibase or Flyway
• Experience working with Git and with web-based repositories such at Bitbucket or GitLab

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with SOAP API's
• Experience working with AWS services: EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, or Amazon Workspaces
• Experience developing in a *nix environment and familiarity with basic and advanced terminal commands
• Experience containerizing software with Docker
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in an Agile development process
• Managing Elasticsearch, reindexing and data mappings, JSON and KQL searching syntax, and Kibana dashboard options

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid leave
• Retirement