Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country’s most challenging technical problems.

All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.

Riverside Research is seeking a Software Engineer (Mid-level) with good experience to work in our Lexington, MA office. We are searching for a candidate that has worked in an environment with good software culture, promoting best practices and processes. We seek a motivated and collaborative employee who will be comfortable working within a cohesive software development team. This candidate will implement features and services in our software system, assist in the planning of designs, write code to fix bugs and expand functionality, and help to maintain a software system that includes multiple services, components, and clients, including a web application.

• Some level of participation in most parts of the software development life cycle, including providing input or review during feature conception and requirements generation as well as software architecture and design, implementation, build, deployment, testing, and support.
• Areas of focus may include some targeted areas of application architecture and software design, user-interface and experience, client-side and server-side development involving Spring, web application development, testing frameworks, and understanding and integrating with devops tools.
• Collaborate with project manager and other development team members to continue to support and develop a robust, high-quality software system that can be accessed on both desktop environments and web clients, with an eye for extensibility to leverage and display different types of data in the future.
• Ability to work directly with databases and other data stores in order to collect information and potentially perform certain levels of statistical analysis.
• Some interaction with stakeholders, customers, and users, or their capabilities and requirements documents, to understand operational strengths and weaknesses and help define roadmap and future focus areas for the software system.
• On occasion, provide direct customer support and technical assistance to users of the software.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualitifactions

• Must obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• Knowledge of current best principles, practices, and procedures for design, development, implementation, deployment, and testing with respect to modern software applications and servers.
• Five years of professional programming experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or three years with a Master’s Degree or equivalent work and professional experience that is documented and can be demonstrated.
• Experience with modern software technologies, architectures, and frameworks that are used in enterprise client-server stacks or web application stacks. Examples include:
  Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Type Script, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, Node, and Python.
• Exposure to database technologies related to modern software application stacks. Examples include Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, and Mongo
  
  DB.
• Experience user interface and user experience design and implementation.
• Knowledge of and exposure to designing, building, and implementing REST API endpoints according to well-defined best practices.
• Experience using AI code assist tools as part of modern software development best practices.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Demonstrated desire to grow and learn new technologies.

• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance
• Experience and knowledge in the areas of dependency injection, software services, and componentization of designs.
• Strong experience in object-oriented design and implementation.
• Strong experience in functional programming design and implementation.
• Understanding of REST, web services, and web security.
• Some full stack development…