Backend Developer

Hybrid | Washington D.C. | 3 Days a Week Onsite

Active TS/SCI Clearance Required

Summary

Our client is an employee and Service-Disabled, Veteran-owned Small Business focused on providing niche technical services. They are a team of experienced cybersecurity professionals with a track record of success in the Federal, Commercial, and Academic workspaces. Additionally, our client designs, builds, operates, and secures scalable cloud and IT infrastructures to meet their customers’ near-term needs and fulfill their long-term requirements.

Responsibilities

Our client is looking for a Backend Developer to join their team to support a government agency! Candidates must be involved in understanding both the backend and frontend architectures of the product under development. Candidates will need to be able to effectively maintain, debug, and advance the features of the production system by working effectively as one of several developers on a team. To do this, candidates will need to understand how to use Git source control, Jira ticketing for bugs and features, and documentation development on Confluence. For this specific role, a developer should be familiar with most of the technologies as listed, but is expected to remain flexible to changes in the technology stack and to learn new skills independently as the needs of the product change over time.

• Define, assign, and resolve bugs, features, and tasks to enhance or maintain a production codebase using Git source code management within an agile software development team
• Effectively modify backend services, including cloud serverless artifacts and databases, as well as frontend user interface components, to merge quality software into an operational IC system
• Participate in multiple weekly agile development working sessions to ensure timely releases of bug fixes and new features
• Participate in peer reviews of merge requests from team members
• Perform pre-release testing of bug fixes and new features

Requirements

• 3+ years of overall software development experience
• 3+ years of Python-specific development experience or 2+ years of experience with certifications that pertain to this position (such as an AWS Developer - Associate certification or other higher certifications)
• Experience with software testing to include unit testing and the use of testing frameworks on both the backend and frontend
• Experience with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda is required
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or related fields requiring extensive use of software development, or, equivalently, three additional years of demonstrated, practical experience in software development can be substituted
• Strong verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong relationships with team members

Education/Certification Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or related fields requiring extensive use of software development, or, equivalently, three additional years of demonstrated, practical experience in software development can be substituted

Preferred Requirements

• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community (IC), and the intel cycle
• Experience working in Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Experience in backlog management, including Epic, Feature, User Story development, and refinement
• Experience with Confluence and Jira
• Experience with the Microsoft 365 (M365) suite

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active TS/SCI clearance is required. Please be aware that onboarding can take 4-6 weeks for this position.