Software Engineer - Backend Solutions (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

About the position

GCI embodies excellence, integrity and professionalism. The employees supporting our customers deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while effectively leveraging the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements in the areas of Data Analytics and Software Development, Engineering, Targeting and Analysis, Operations, Training, and Cyber Operations. We maximize opportunities for success by building and maintaining trusted and reliable partnerships with our customers and industry. At GCI, we solve the hard problems. As a Software Engineer, a typical day will include the following duties:

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and data ingestion solutions.
• Perform data modeling, data mapping, and large-scale file manipulation.
• Collaborate across disciplines in an Agile environment with minimal supervision.
• Drive innovation and process improvement with a hands-on development approach.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• At least five (5) years of related software engineering experience.
• Knowledge of NodeJS or Python
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Solid experience in building and maintaining ETL workflows and data pipelines.
• Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills.
• Familiarization with NoSQL datastores.

Nice-to-haves

• NiFi experience
• Hands-on experience working with Elastic and RabbitMQ
• NoSQL experience (i.e. MongoDB)
• Distributed architecture creation
• Cloud based architecture creation or experience