Junior Software Engineer

Job Description
ECS is seeking a Jr. Software Engineer to work onsite at our Springfield, VA customer site.

Job Description:

You will serve as Jr. Software Engineer on a state-of-the-art ML/AI RDT&E program focusing on integrating unique solutions and quick-wins to a government client. Leveraging agile software development approaches and your experience with front-end and back-end technologies, you will lead technical efforts with participating parties across the government and tech industry to integrate multiple ML applications into a single-fused solution. Part of this responsibility includes:

• Participating in server-side and client-side work
• Enhancing existing applications through creative techniques that are mindful of technical resources and time constraints
• Co-leading product direction and feature specification with community stakeholders and Program Manager.

Fundamentally, we are interested in individuals who are motivated by the mission, find meaning in solving hard-problems, and recognize operating in a hierarchically-flat environment makes for better communication, collaboration, and coordination.
Required Skills

• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI + CI Poly security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related STEM field with 0-3 years of relevant experience
• Ability develop, integrate, and troubleshoot software applications for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) solutions in C++, Python, Java, and JavaScript
• Strong attention to detail and high-quality code using robust design patterns
• Experience in both SQL, NoSQL and in-memory databases (PostgreSQL, Elastic, Redis)
• Ability to Build real-time data pipeline and event-driven architectures (Kafka Streaming)
• Develop server-side apps and implemented end-to-end distributed tracing and system monitoring (OpenTelemetry)
• Design and maintained resilient, high traffic microservices
• Proficiency in Python, C++, Node.js, and JavaScript
• Experience with Linux -- system administration and scripting in Bash, Sed, and Awk
• Expertise in AWS cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM), cloud cluster, and policy management experience
• API Integration & Development
• Experience with containerization/orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Rancher, OpenShift)
• Experience with DevSecOps frameworks (e.g. GitLab, Jira)
• Experience developing architecture/system diagrams and data flow diagrams
• Excellent communication/presentation skills to make recommendations to stakeholders with varying degrees of technical awareness
• Ability to quickly grasp and leverage new technologies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Desired Skills

• Data Science concepts familiarity
• Oracle Converged Database (RDF Graph DB, Text DB, Relational DB, Geospatial DB, etc.)
• RDF Graph DB (e.g., AnzoGraph, Stardog, etc.)
• Palantir Foundry Application Development
• Experience with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, and Oracle)
• Experience designing, coding, deploying, and supporting enterprise-level systems
• Experience with UI frameworks (e.g. React)
• Experience with automation engines (e.g. Ansible)
• Experience utilizing big data tools (e.g. Airflow, Django, Elasticsearch, Kibana, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with Geographic Information System (GIS) data
• Experience with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms