Software Engineer (Backend Focus)

Software Engineer (Backend Focus), Clearance Required – TS / SCI w / Polygraph

Please note, this position requires all candidates to currently possess an

active Top-Secret SCI Clearance with a Polygraph.   This position is not an opportunity to be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance.

The Work :

You will 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. To be successful, you will work closely with analysts and operators to gain first-person insight into their missions, workflows, and perspectives, then utilize that knowledge to inform the platform's design. You will write and optimize graph retrieval queries, design and maintain ingest processes, and develop batch and streaming analytics that answer key customer questions and surface critical insights.

Minimum Qualifications :

• A current Top-Secret / SCI government security clearance with polygraph is required.
• 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.
• 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.

Bonus Points :

As a Software Engineer, You Will :

Work Site :   Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia Maryland

To Learn More About Our Team and Solutions, Check Out the Following :

At Sensible Solutions and Technologies, Inc. (SSATI), we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our services, and our community.   SSATI is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace.   We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Benefits

Salary : $227,000 - $308,000 Paid bi-weekly