Application Developer- Full Stack (Senior)

Nightwing • Dulles, VA

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About The Position

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Nightwing is currently seeking a Senior Full Stack Web Application Developer in Herndon VA to work on a suite of services that will supply users with tools to automate a wide range of enterprise-wide applications and data centric mission management applications. The candidate will be part of a team of Software Developers, ETL Developers, and Data Scientists to enhance existing production applications and build out new web services on a routinized production cadence to meet the evolving needs of users. This is an exciting opportunity for Software Developers wanting to broaden their credentials in the realm of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). This is also an exciting opportunity for the Software Developers to develop hands-on experience with new technical tools/applications. Development will take place in an iterative fashion using Agile development methodology with input from all levels of stakeholders. The candidate must have the ability to communicate with project team members, user community, and leadership to assess changes and demonstrate iterative progress. This position will include a variety of activities, including: Fundamental understanding of analytic tools and capabilities. Integrating AI/ML technology into a production web application. Participation with iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements. Designing, developing and unit testing code for a production system and demonstration capabilities. Developing rapid prototypes to drive out requirements and design. Providing demonstrations and detailed walk through of features to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences. Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, developing user stories, and translating these into software development tasks. Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed.

Requirements

• Experience in Agile team and software development methodologies.
• Minimum 4-6 years building web applications using Angular, React or JavaScript with specific examples.
• Java Spring framework is a plus.
• Solid understanding around UI/UX fundamentals.
• Minimum 2-4 years of work experience using a Linux Operating system.
• Minimum 2-4 years of demonstrated experience with development and deployment of applications in cloud services; such as: AWS, C2S, Azure, Oracle Cloud.
• Minimum 2-3 years of demonstrated ability to design, develop, test and implement new applications based on project requirements.
• The ability to work individually as well as the ability to work in project teams.
• Proven ability in decomposing concepts to discrete development tasks and managing your work to a deadline.
• Familiarity of microservices up to include: docker, podman, and or containerization services.
• Minimum 3-4 years of demonstrated experience using coding language: Java, Python, JavaScript, CSharp. Python preferred.
• Other areas of object orientated programming will be considered.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or other relevant field and minimum of six years of experience (Master’s degree equates to an additional 2 years of relevant work experience)
• TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Day 1

Nice To Haves

• Fundamental understanding around text analytics and its applications/role/use in business intelligence/business analytics (i.e. search, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, document categorization) whether through education or experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing proof of concepts of new technologies and evaluating the state of the art in machine learning algorithms for text analytics whether through education or experience.
• Fundamental understanding around machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow whether through education or experience is a plus.
• Fundamental understanding of data visualization tools (i.e. Tableau, Pandas, D3.js, ggplot, etc) whether through education or experience.
• Experience with Relational or Non-Relational data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB whether through education or experience.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for documenting work a plus.

Responsibilities

• Fundamental understanding of analytic tools and capabilities.
• Integrating AI/ML technology into a production web application.
• Participation with iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements.
• Designing, developing and unit testing code for a production system and demonstration capabilities.
• Developing rapid prototypes to drive out requirements and design.
• Providing demonstrations and detailed walk through of features to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, developing user stories, and translating these into software development tasks.
• Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level