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Nightwing lists this Application Developer- Full Stack (SME) opportunity in sterling, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
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Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.
Nightwing is currently seeking a Full Stack Web Application Developer SME in Herndon VA to work on a suite of services that will supply users with tools to automate a wide range of enterprise-wide applications and data centric mission management applications. The candidate will be part of a team of Software Developers, ETL Developers, and Data Scientists to enhance existing production applications and build out new web services on a routinized production cadence to meet the evolving needs of users. This is an exciting opportunity for Software Developers wanting to broaden their credentials in the realm of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
Development will take place in an iterative fashion using Agile development methodology with input from all levels of stakeholders. The candidate must have the ability to communicate with project team members, user community, and leadership to assess changes and demonstrate iterative progress.
This position will include a variety of activities, including:
* Integrating AI/ML technology into a production web application.
* Participation with iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements.
* Designing, developing and unit testing code for a production system and demonstration capabilities.
* Developing rapid prototypes to drive out requirements and design.
* Providing demonstrations and detailed walk through of features to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
* Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, developing user stories, and translating these into software development tasks.
* Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed.
* Write and maintain technical documentation for application workflows, integrations, and compliance procedures.
* Optimize and enhance application performance, ensuring scalability and security.
Mandatory Skills
* Demonstrated experience on Agile software development teams following Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
* Demonstrated experience using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for documenting work and team collaboration.
* Minimum 8-10 years building web applications and UX/UI frameworks using Angular, React or JavaScript with specific examples. Java Spring framework is a plus.
* Minimum 6-8 years working in Linux Operating system.
* Minimum 4-6 years of demonstrated experience with development and deployment of applications in the Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment or an Amazon Web Services cloud environment. Willing to consider to substitute C2S if candidate has a minimum 4-6 years of cloud computing technology to include Azure, Oracle, Google, etc.
* Minimum 2-3 years of demonstrated experience with search & analytic tools. Examples to include ElasticSearch, Solr, OpenSearch.
* Minimum 2-3 years of demonstrated (Extract, Transform, Load - ETL) with large structured and unstructured raw data sets.
* Minimum 2-4 years of demonstrated ability to design, develop, test and implement new applications based on project requirements.
* The ability to work individually as well as the ability to work in project teams. Proven ability in decomposing concepts to discrete development tasks and managing your work to a deadline.
* Minimum 6-8 years of demonstrated ability in microservices up to and including docker, podman, and or containerization services.
* Minimum 4-6 years in Object Oriented programming. Python is preferred software development language, but would consider Java, JavaScript, C#, SQL, Etc.
Desired:
* Demonstrated experience with text analytics and its applications/role/use in business intelligence/business analytics (i.e. search, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, document categorization) whether through education or experience.
* Demonstrated experience developing proof of concepts of new technologies and evaluating the state of the art in machine learning algorithms for text analytics whether through education or experience.
* Demonstrated experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow whether through education or experience.
* Demonstrated experience with data visualization tools (i.e. Tableau, Pandas, D3.js, ggplot, etc) whether through education or experience.
* Demonstrated experience with Relational or Non-Relational data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB whether through education or experience.
* Demonstrated experience using Natural Language Processing tools such as spaCy, NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, or Gensim Natural Language Processing whether through education or experience.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or other relevant field and minimum of six years of experience (Master's degree equates to an additional 2 years of relevant work experience)
TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Day 1
At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You'll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we'll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.
Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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