- Demonstrated experience translating customer and system requirements into design.
- Demonstrated experience designing system interfaces.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience developing Applications using the following technologies or something similar: SOLR, Elastic, Postgres, Java, Scala, RDS or spring boot.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience working with relational and non-relational database systems such as Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Postgres.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with and troubleshooting of Internet and Web related protocols and technologies such as Tomcat, Nodejs, Web Services, or SSL.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience developing JUnit and Jasmine tests.
- Demonstrated experience with testing platforms such as Jest or Karma.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Nexus
- Demonstrated recent experience with Sponsor's profile and alerting services that represents a "prospective search" tool that sifts through incoming stream looking for items that match a user's profile and alerts upon match.
- Demonstrated recent experience with the Sponsor's discovery and recommendation services that allows a user to discover data they wouldn't ordinarily know about and represents an information filtering system that leverages content-based approaches to discriminate between interesting and uninteresting items for a user.
- Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor's Pre-NLP processing pipeline to remove boilerplate text, portion marks and non-narrative content. About The DarkStar Group Our Company The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
- 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
Software Developer - Chantilly, United States - The DarkStar Group
Description
The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Developer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA.
Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.
THE PROGRAM The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community.
We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013.We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.
THE PROJECT The Sponsor's office provides knowledge management and data services to enable search and discovery, as well as improve collaboration across the organization.
The Sponsor requires project management and technical support to manage projects and to perform software development activities within budget in the areas of enabling search against structured and unstructured data sets, coordinating and collaborating on documents across the organization, leveraging machine language to discover content that would otherwise be missed via Boolean, and incorporating artificial intelligence to do predictive analysis and make recommendations based on historical data.
THE ROLE The Contractor team shall participate in all Lean Agile scrums, sprints and grooming sessions. The Contractor team shall manage the progress of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product integration and development efforts. The Contractor team shall ensure tasks are completed on schedule. The Contractor team shall consult and coordinate appropriately for problem resolution, task scheduling, new resource requirements, and task clarification. The Contractor shall understand the cloud environments, such as AWS or Azure.The Contractor team shall coordinate and collaborate with security, operations, engineering, testing and other teams to provide system information and technical support.
The Contractor team shall create, manage and update Jira tickets. The Contractor team shall design, develop and modify software systems. The Contractor team shall document and track vendor software roadmaps for software and patch version updates. The Contractor team shall unit test their software and perform code reviews. Required Skills * Demonstrated experience developing detailed design and associated deliverables.Desired Skills (Optional) * Demonstrated recent experience with the Sponsor's suite of applications providing repository and search services that enables Sponsor to find the information they need.
* very strong salaries;
* an 8% 401(k) contribution; * 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
* the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
* a generous training budget;
* $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
* business development / growth incentives; and
* top notch company swag.
We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.