Superb BackEnd Software Engineer (2+ years - Senior Level)

Black Cape•Reston, VA

About The Position

Black Cape is a unique technology company with a focus on full-stack web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and integrating AI/ML capabilities for federal government customers. We are a COOL and FUN crew that works hard and plays maybe even a little harder. Our core team is an impressive group of engineers with exceptional leadership at the helm. Black Cape is led by proven business and engineering leaders with a track record of building innovative technology companies focused on building mission applications. We support many programs and agencies as both a prime and a subcontractor and created a strong reputation working with top tier partners doing work for all major Intelligence Community agencies, DoW, and Special Operations customers. Our engineer-led software teams develop technical solutions on an aggressive schedule across the DoW and IC to meet customer needs. Our engineers apply proven, repeatable software, technical, and analytical approaches to build solutions and have frequent interaction with end users to produce and deploy solutions. We bring experience in building, integrating and deploying AI/ML solutions using Google TensorFlow, Python scikit-learn, and other tools. Black Cape’s approach to solution development combines lessons learned from developing and deploying applications to customer cloud environments with industry best practices in Agile development and DevOps. Exceptional Full Stack engineering experts from diverse technical and experience backgrounds! We are expanding and need to hire motivated engineers to help build innovative solutions for our customers. The ideal candidate needs limited direction and is passionate about technology. A willingness and desire to learn new technologies or languages quickly is a must. We are considering Junior to Senior Level software engineers (Minimum of 1.5 Years of Professional experience) We are always looking for the RIGHT, cutting-edge technologies to use for our projects to deliver the greatest value to our customers. Check out some tech stacks that we use that you could learn! Interested in working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with other enthusiastic engineers? Come join us in creating cloud-native web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and new machine learning capabilities.

Requirements

MUST have an Active Top Secret OR Top Secret SCI Clearance
US Citizenship and an Active Security Clearance issued by a US Government Customer
Proficient with at least one core coding language such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Golang or other
Proficient with developing open standard APIs (i.e. REST or GraphQL) using a framework such as FastAPI, SpringBoot, or other framework
Proficient with at least one databases, such as PostgresQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, or other data storage tools
Experience with Linux based distros, such as Debian, RedHat, or Alpine
Experience with SDLC tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub, and BitBucket
Experience with Docker-based development and containerization
Aptitude for learning new technologies, tools, and processes, with a proven history of picking up new skills as project needs evolve
Experience working in classified government environments or willingness to work at classified government sites as needed
Experience developing on MacOSX, Windows, or Linux

Nice To Haves

Testing libraries such as Pytest, JUnit, or others
CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
Deployment tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, or Ansible
Data processing tools such as Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Redis, or Celery
Experience with server configuration such as of NGINX, Apache, HAProxy, Traefik or similar
CompTIA Security+ certification
Machine learning tools such as pytorch, transformers, and CoreNLP
Dependency management tools such as poetry, uv, Pipenv, or maven
Large language models (LLMs) and servers, such as Ollama, Llama.cpp, and vLLM