Software Developer (Java / Python)

John Galt Staffing - Lexington, MA

Full-time

Lexington, MA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Software Developer position at John Galt Staffing involves supporting the research and development of large-scale open architecture distributed and cloud-based data processing, analysis, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects. The role requires collaboration with Lincoln Laboratory technical staff to design software architecture systems, with a focus on coding, development, implementation, integration, and testing using agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Support the research and development of large-scale open architecture distributed/cloud-based data processing and AI projects.
• Collaborate with Lincoln technical staff to design software architecture systems.
• Perform coding, development, implementation, integration, and testing of software systems.
• Utilize agile development methodology in project execution.
• Work primarily in Java within a mixed Windows/Linux environment.

Requirements

• Expertise in Java and Python development.
• Strong object-oriented development skills.
• Experience developing distributed and cloud-based systems and services.
• Experience developing RESTful and/or SOAP based web services.
• Web application server development using Tomcat or other servlet containers.
• Proficiency in XML technologies including XSDs, XPATH, XSLT.
• Experience with modern development tools such as Eclipse-like IDEs, maven, git, github, JIRA, Jenkins, Puppet.
• Ability to apply skills in innovative, cutting-edge applications.
• Ability to work well in a fast-moving, small team environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing scalable architectures in a cloud environment.
• Experience with commercial cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.
• Knowledge of full software lifecycle automation and testing tools.
• Expertise in high performance multi-threaded applications.
• Experience with at least one NOSQL database technology.
• Familiarity with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, ELK Stack.
• Familiarity with standard SQL databases and JDBC.
• Familiarity with AI/machine learning libraries, software stacks, and applications.
• Solid understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems, including shell scripting.
• Expertise in modern software design patterns and frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.).
• Experience securing distributed services using PKI methodologies.