Software Engineer - Backend (Cleared)

Swoop Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoop Technologies is seeking a Backend Developer in Washington, DC to build services and features for SwoopOS. This hybrid role involves developing APIs, authoring Python packages, and ensuring service stability with a focus on security standards. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree, 3+ years of software development experience, and an active US Security clearance. Competitive compensation of $125K to $190K is offered, ensuring contributions to revolutionary distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Active US Security clearance is required for this position.
• 3+ years in backend software development writing scalable code.
• Proficient Python coding ability with strong understanding of data structures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and build new services and features working with firmware and infrastructure teams.
• Design and build SDKs for both internal and external use.
• Author Python packages for functionality used across multiple services.

Skills

Backend software development

API development

Python programming

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Django

PostgreSQL

Job description

This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul OR Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week

Impact

Swoop’s operating system challenges many paradigms defining a scalable API. Management, security, and interoperability each will be re‑imagined in how Swoop’s OS exposes interfaces to inputs and outputs within the stack. You will have a role developing APIs that Swoop developers leverage to build user‑facing applications running on the Swoop platform. These APIs will be further leveraged and exposed to 3rd parties to develop an ecosystem of novel applications running on the Swoop OS.

About Swoop

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment – consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on‑premise computing node. In the physical world.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and build new services and features, working closely internally with our firmware team to interface with the SwoopOS, our frontend team to support our web application, and our infrastructure team to deliver a stable product to market.
• Design and build SDK’s for internal and external use, working with 3rd parties as they develop applications to run on our OS.
• Author new Python packages for common functionality used across multiple services.
• Ensure our services have strong availability and service level agreements across our code base, especially as it pertains to the runtime of our Kubernetes cluster in production.
• Tune data storage configurations to optimize for scale and near real‑time availability in a streaming architecture.

You Should Have

• Active US Security clearance is required for this position
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
• 3+ years in backend software development writing scalable code and/or modern APIs structured from databases and distributed data sources
• Proficient Python coding ability with good understanding of data structures and data models
• Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
• Understanding of basic software security standards

Bonus if you have

• Experience with one or more of the following: async Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Solr, Rust
• Experience handling multimedia data structures

Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Compensation Range: $125K - $190K