Mid-Level Software Engineer

Belay Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer to join our intel team. Join CNO's Custom Media Operations team, winners of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board Killian Award for outstanding mission support. CMO is leading the charge on media capabilities in the IC. You will support the team in full-stack web development efforts that connect CMO's capabilities with their customers. The role offers hands‑on experience developing solutions within the state‑of‑the‑art AI/ML landscape.

On this small team, you will manage products through their entire lifecycle, from initial ideation to full production, and take full ownership of their success.

• Build and maintain full stack applications in collaboration with business leaders and AI/ML engineers providing custom media operations.
• Partner with AI/ML engineers, senior stakeholders, and business users to thoroughly understand complex operational challenges and translate those needs into robust, technical solutions.
• Rapidly prototype and pilot complex, cutting‑edge capabilities to meet customers' ever‑evolving needs.
• Optimize system usability and workflow efficiency by collaborating with end‑users to define and refine ideal user interaction path that reduces mission operation friction.
• Cultivate an understanding of latest technological developments in the AI/ML landscape and seek opportunities to operationalize them.

• Proven ability to take a project from initial concept/scoping through iterative development, rigorous testing, and final deployment.
• Highly self‑directed, with experience decomposing work into features and actions, with minimal oversight.
• Experience conducting direct user research, iterating on new capabilities based on user feedback, and solving real‑world operational pain points.
• Extensive experience building applications in JavaScript including Node.js, Type Script, and UI frameworks/libraries such as React and Material‑UI.
• Experience with Linux, especially Ubuntu and Amazon Linux.
• Experience with Docker.
• Working knowledge of No
  
  SQL databases, specifically Mongo
  
  DB.
• Experience managing CI/CD build pipelines within Git Lab.

• Experience with Java/Spring Boot and Python/Flask.
• AWS Certified Cloud Ops Engineer, or general experience with managing software infrastructure in AWS.
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, or general experience with managing an application running on Kubernetes.
• Experience with multimedia and 3D modeling tools such as Cinema4D, Blender, Unreal Engine, GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc.
• Basic literacy in AI and knowledge of the ML process.
• Experience using code‑assist tools such as Open Code, Copilot, etc.

• 8 weeks paid leave (4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday, 11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program)
• 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
• $5,000 annual training/tuition
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• 100% company‑funded HSA
• Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
• Dental coverage including orthodontia
• Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded
• Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes
• Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!

Salary Range: $70,000 to $190,000

Belay Technologies is a certified Service‑Disabled Veteran‑Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state‑of‑the‑art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.