Software Engineer; Back End

Job Description

The AV PRIME program is seeking a Software Engineer 2 with strong back-end development experience—particularly in Hadoop and microservices—to join a small, high-impact software team. If taking ideas from concept to working prototype in fast, iterative cycles excites you, and you enjoy solving complex problems in distributed systems, this role will give you the opportunity to have outsized impact on how our organization operates.

You will work as a hands-on engineer on a close-knit team, designing and building scalable back-end services and data-intensive systems that support mission-critical applications.

• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance complex back-end software systems based on documented requirements.
• Implement services and data pipelines using Hadoop and related big-data technologies.
• Build and evolve microservices-based architectures, including service boundaries, APIs, and inter-service communication patterns.
• Utilize sound software design and development methodologies to build, integrate, and execute simulations in development and test environments.
• Provide input to system and software design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse strategies, and effective use of COTS/GOTS components versus new development.
• Perform requirements analysis and synthesis from system level down to individual services and modules.
• Implement and consume RESTful APIs to integrate back-end services with other systems and client applications.
• Containerize services (e.g., Podman/Docker) and deploy them to orchestrated environments (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues in distributed systems, including performance analysis, latency reduction, and scalability tuning.
• Apply strong analytical troubleshooting and performance evaluation techniques across the stack.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to refine requirements, estimate work, and deliver incremental value.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
• Work independently when needed, demonstrating ownership, follow-through, and clear communication.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or Physics or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Minimum 14 years of relevant experience in software engineering, modernization, or solution architecture
• An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

• Strong Java development skills for back-end and service-layer implementations.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful services.
• Hands-on experience with containers (Podman and/or Docker).
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Practical experience designing and implementing microservices architectures.
• Back-end development experience with Hadoop or similar big-data processing frameworks.
• Familiarity with two or more of the following: processing paradigms (machine learning workflows, streaming data processing, and/or batch processing pipelines).
• Data stores:
  Mongo
  
  DB, Arango
  
  DB, Redis, Postgre
  
  SQL (data modeling, performance tuning, and operations).

• Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments such as AWS or on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).
• Familiarity with observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing) for distributed systems.
• Experience working in agile or iterative development environments.

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The Salary Range For This Role Is $102,000 - $160,650

Aero Vironment considers several factors when extending an offer, including location, role and responsibilities, work experience, education/training, and key skills.

This position requires access to information that is subject to ITAR and/or EAR compliance. Applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR and EAR, or be eligible for an export license approval. A U.S. person is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or a protected individual such as a refugee or asylee. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.

AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown. For more information about our benefits, please visit:

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EOE/AA Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic data, sexual orientation, gender identity or other legally protected status.