Software Engineer - TS/SCI w/Poly

Leading Path Consulting • Chantilly, VA

69d

About The Position

This role is part of a mission critical directorate where you will have significant impact on Mission (pointy end of spear). Due to the priority of this funded and sole-sourced opportunity, we are offering up to a $20k signing bonus and the top 5% of the current market pay scale to support the right hire! We’re looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about building modern, scalable solutions for ingesting and transforming data. This role blends back-end engineering with data pipeline development and is perfect for someone who enjoys designing modular services and bringing structure to complex data environments. As part of our Agile team, you’ll design and develop software products and services that efficiently ingest, process, and manage data from a variety of sources. You’ll play a key role in building robust, reusable APIs and data pipelines that support critical operational and analytical systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• At least five (5) years of related experience software engineering experience.
• Knowledge of NodeJS or Python
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Solid experience in building and maintaining ETL workflows and data pipelines.
• Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills.
• Familiarization with NoSQL datastores.

Nice To Haves

• NiFi experience
• Hands-on experience working with Elastic and RabbitMQ
• NoSQL experience (i.e. MongoDB)
• Distributed architecture creation
• Cloud based architecture creation or experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and data ingestion solutions.
• Perform data modeling, data mapping, and large-scale file manipulation.
• Collaborate across disciplines in an Agile environment with minimal supervision.
• Drive innovation and process improvement with a hands-on development approach.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability.

Benefits

• Vacation – 5 weeks of accrued paid vacation per year (i.e., 8.33 hours accrued per pay period worked)
• Holidays - Paid holidays published annually by the Office of Personnel Management, excluding Inauguration Day
• 100% paid for Health Benefits* (United Healthcare, Guardian Dental, VSP Vision, MetLife, Life and Disability Insurance and annual $1500 employer HSA contribution on qualified plans) *health benefits kick in the 1st of the month following your start date
• 6% 401k Contribution (3% paid out during each pay period, the additional 3% will be paid out as a lump sum in Q1 each year)
• Training Reimbursement – Approved training and education expenses will be reimbursed
• Travel Expenses – Approved travel expenses will be reimbursed *Note – From time to time, the company may change employee benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree