Senior Software Engineer, Python

Reinventing Geospatial - Springfield, VA

Full-time - Senior

Springfield, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of challenging and rewarding projects. You will work directly with stakeholders and Data Analysts to develop new and enhanced capabilities that help analysts achieve mission success and add core tools to an analytical suite. You will support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to process ETL on new and varied data sets, and work with Big Data at scale, using Spark/PySpark to handle petabytes of data. You will have a deep understanding of customer mission needs, generating requirements based on their input. Working with various data types, including Technical Telemetry Data and Computer Network Cyber data, you will develop solutions that meet specific needs. The satisfaction of knowing that everything you do will be directly used by the customer, contributing to their mission success, is a crucial part of the job.

Responsibilities

• Updating all application workflows to improve performance and resiliency
• Work in a multi-faceted software development team to build and maintain software applications backed by a self-managed cloud infrastructure with a true big-data footprint (over 10 petabytes)
• Solve unique and challenging intelligence problems in support of special operations analysts and their ongoing activities
• Support a diverse background of experience in mission support and software development
• Prototyping and frequent, iterative feedback are core to our delivery approach, anchored by a need to work quickly in support of our missions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science or related field
• 12+ years development experience in modern languages (Python, Java, JavaScript)

Nice-to-haves

• Full-stack web frameworks: Django, Python, Flask
• Front-End frameworks: React, Angular, Typescript
• Cloud computing environments: Openstack, AWS, Azure
• DevOps & automation tools: Docker, Ansible, Gitlab
• Big Data Technologies: Spark, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Neo4j
• Geo-related mapping experience

Benefits

• 100% paid employee healthcare & dental insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401k with matching
• Escalating vacation time
• Referral bonuses
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development training
• Free beverages and snacks
• Weekly catered lunches and breakfast on Fridays