Full Stack Developer; TS​/SCI + Poly

Description

The Dark Star Group, a GRVTY Company is seeking a Full Stack Developer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company and our benefits.

The Dark Star Group's team provides tactical data engineering solutions. We embed skilled Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and ETL Developers directly into intelligence analyst groups to be their go-to data wranglers. We develop new tools, code, and services to execute data engineering activities. Our engineers work to collect, process, and feed analytic tools, turning data into intelligence in response to immediate mission needs, with direct impact on real world situations.

You will see your work used here on a daily basis, and you'll have the opportunity to support a variety of Sponsor mission organizations and mission partner organizations.

This is a time of development and growth on the program, with an increasing number of missions being supported. The work is high impact and important, and the customer moves quickly. The environment is fast-paced, flexible, and open to innovation – you'll have more latitude here in choosing how to achieve results than on many other projects. The customer cares more about what you can do as opposed to your years of experience, and work hours are typically quite flexible – roll up your sleeves, get things done, and no one cares much about the specific hours that you work.

The work space itself is also quite nice, and there is an excellent cafeteria!

The tech stack on this team is rather huge and includes Python (Pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, standard libraries, etc.), Python packages that wrap Machine Learning (packages for NLP, Object Detection, etc.), Linux, AWS/C2S, Apache NiFi, Spark, py Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Elastic Search, Solr, Kibana, neo4J, Maria

DB, Postgres, Docker, Puppet, and many others.

Work on this program takes place in Chantilly, VA, McLean, VA and in various field offices throughout Northern VA (we cannot support remote work) and requires a TS/SCI + Polygraph clearance (acceptable to this customer).

• The Full Stack Developer participates in development efforts to deliver a complete software solution. This position is for work across the cloud-based software development lifecycle (front end, back end, database, etc.). Design and implement all levels of the solution: data layer, application code, user interface. Design and deliver APIs and integrations with other software systems and databases. Architect for optimal use of enterprise infrastructure (cloud) and security requirements.
  
  Experience in the following:
  Delivering the design and development of software applications. Programming/coding from the data layer through the application layer, through the user interface. Decomposing functional requirements into technical specifications and tasks. Software development frameworks and languages such as JavaScript, Type Script, React, Python, etc. and data management tools such as SQL and XML. Developing and maintaining unit test scripts. Developing APIs and web services for integration between systems and data sets.

• Work with the Chief Engineer and Technical Leads to translate requirements into user stories to incorporate new functionality into various software applications
• Develop and/or integrate with Infrastructure as Code Dev Ops tools to support cloud orchestration of software components
• Leverage AWS best practices to optimize code for cloud deployment with cost-conscious development and deployment strategies.
• Experience developing front end user interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks like React.js, HTML, CSS, etc.
• Experience developing web APIs to interface with cloud applications and databases as part of cloud native software applications
• Experience working as part of an agile team to deliver software iteratively

• Minimum of 4-7 years' experience with:
• Application layer programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Database / Data Layer experience (e.g., SQL, unstructured data, Mongo
  
  DB, Python, R,…