Python/UI Platform Engineer — Orchestration & Modern UI

Aktra Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Aktra Inc. in McLean, VA seeks a software engineer with 4+ years of experience to enhance platforms across authorization, job scheduling, workflow orchestration, performance optimization, and web UI architecture. The role emphasizes distributed processing pipelines and containerized applications.

You will collaborate on design, participate in code reviews, and contribute to engineering best practices while modernizing the UI across modules and improving throughput and scalability.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on software development experience using a modern programming language such as Python or Java.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing modern, scalable web user interfaces.
• Experience designing or implementing access control and authorization systems, as well as job scheduling and queuing systems.
• 1-2 years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and extend access control and authorization mechanisms, as well as job queuing and scheduling capabilities, to support concurrent execution, prioritization, and efficient resource allocation.
• Streamline end-to-end workflows by identifying bottlenecks, refactoring orchestration logic, and improving coordination across system components.
• Analyze existing run-processing pipelines, develop performance metrics and statistics, and implement optimization strategies to improve execution efficiency and throughput.
• Modernize the platform's UI architecture through thoughtful redesign and implementation, improving information hierarchy, usability, consistency, and layout across functional modules.
• Collaborate on technical design discussions, participate in code reviews, and contribute to technical documentation and engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

Java

Web UI development

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Podman

Job description

Aktra Inc. in McLean, VA seeks a software engineer with 4+ years of experience to enhance platforms across authorization, job scheduling, workflow orchestration, performance optimization, and web UI architecture. The role emphasizes distributed processing pipelines and containerized applications.

You will collaborate on design, participate in code reviews, and contribute to engineering best practices while modernizing the UI across modules and improving throughput and scalability.