Senior Software Developer (Backend/Middleware)

Location: Springfield, VA

Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **We are not able to upgrade or sponsor clearances**

Work schedule: Ability to work one day a week on-site in secure government environments required .

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it's architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, DevSecOps, systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.

Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government's mission and our client's business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation's cyber interests? Join our growing team supporting the NGA customer missions as a Senior Software Developer (Backend/Middleware) *contingent upon award*

Responsibilities

What you get to do every day:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance backend services and middleware solutions supporting mission-critical applications in secure government environments.
• Architect and implement distributed systems using messaging frameworks such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pulsar to enable real-time data processing and event-driven architectures.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices using Python and SQL with focus on security, performance, and reliability.
• Design and implement agentic AI solutions leveraging frameworks such as Agent OS, MCP, LangGraph , and LangChain to create intelligent, autonomous application capabilities.
• Lead implementation of robust authentication and authorization mechanisms and identity management solutions ensuring compliance with security requirements.
• Architect deployment strategies including blue/green deployments, canary releases, and feature flag implementations to enable zero-downtime releases.
• Optimize data pipelines and application performance through efficient SQL query design, data transformation strategies, and integration with PostgreSQL-based databases and data warehouses.
• Mentor development team members on best practices for code quality, testing methodologies, troubleshooting techniques, and software architecture patterns.
• Design and implement comprehensive testing strategies including automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing harnesses.
• Collaborate with database administrators, DevOps engineers, and stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions within project timelines and constraints.

Qualifications

Clearance Required: Active TS clearance (with SCI Eligibility) and eligibility to obtain CI Poly **We are not able to upgrade or sponsor clearances**

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with at least 5 years in backend/middleware development

Required Skills:

• Expert-level proficiency in Python with demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, and highly efficient code
• Advanced SQL skills including complex queries, CTEs, window functions, query optimization, and stored procedure development
• Extensive experience working with relational databases and data warehouses, particularly PostgreSQL and its variants (AWS RDS, Aurora, Redshift, Timescale DB, Enterprise DB, etc.)
• Strong understanding of database design, indexing strategies, and performance optimization techniques
• Proven track record designing and implementing secure RESTful APIs with proper authentication and authorization patterns
• Solid experience with Linux command line administration, particularly RHEL and Rocky Linux distributions
• Experience with advanced deployment strategies including blue/green deployments, canary releases, and feature flag frameworks
• Proven ability to design and implement comprehensive automated testing strategies and frameworks
• Advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills with ability to diagnose complex system issues independently
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript or Scala as a secondary language
• Extensive hands-on experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration in production environments
• Good understanding of message-driven architectures and production experience with at least one messaging platform (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pulsar)
• Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD or other DevOps pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment workflows
• Demonstrated expertise implementing identity management solutions and security best practices
• AWS cloud infrastructure experience including services like Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, Aurora, Redshift, and API Gateway
• Experience with data parsing, transformation, and ETL pipeline development
• SAFe certification or experience
• Background working in secure government environments

What is ideal?

• Experience with agentic AI frameworks such as Agent OS, MCP, LangGraph , or LangChain
• Familiarity with geospatial processing libraries like GDAL or geopandas and PostGIS
• Experience with high-performance computing concepts including parallel processing and distributed computing
• Knowledge of stream processing frameworks such as Spark Streaming or Flink
• Experience optimizing data warehouse queries and managing large-scale data operations
• Intelligence Community Experience preferred

What you can expect from us

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by bcore through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• You'll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.

BCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.