Software Engineer Lead 670

Freedom Technology Solutions Group, LLC; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching

Fully paid medical

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Referral bonuses

Life and disability insurance

Company events

Job summary

Freedom Technology Solutions Group currently seeks a Software Engineer Lead to build high-performance, distributed systems for enterprise data and AI/ML driven applications. You will collaborate with software developers, ETL teams, and data scientists to enhance production apps and create new services on a routinized cadence.

You will design, develop, and test production code, prototype rapidly to refine requirements, and demonstrate capabilities to diverse audiences while ensuring security and

Qualifications

• 4–6 years backend development with Python and Java.
• 4–6 years frontend development with Angular.
• 6–8 years AWS architecture design.
• 6–8 years Linux experience including shell scripting.
• 2–3 years AI/ML development and data science understanding.
• 6–8 years with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• 6–8 years in Cloud environments (C2S or AWS).
• 6–8 years in microservices, Docker/Podman, containerization.
• 6–8 years OO programming; Python preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate with iterative software development teams and reporting.
• Integrate AI/ML into a production web application.
• Design, develop, and unit test production system code.
• Develop rapid prototypes to drive requirements and design.
• Demonstrate features to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Meet with stakeholders to translate requirements into tasks.
• Create technical documentation for workflows, integrations, and compliance.
• Write documentation for application workflows and procedures.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and security.

Skills

Python

Java

Angular

AWS Architecture

Linux

AI/ML development

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

SQL/NoSQL

Elasticsearch/Solr/OpenSearch

ETL processes

Docker/Containerization

OO programming (Python)

Tools

AWS

Job description

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is currently seeking a Software Engineer Lead to work on a suite of services that will supply users with tools to automate a wide range of enterprise-wide applications and data centric mission management applications, with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). The candidate will be part of a team of Software Developers, ETL Developers, and Data Scientists to enhance existing production applications and build out new web services on a routinized production cadence to meet the evolving needs of users. This role is focused on developing high-performance, distributed systems that operate on petabyte-scale structured and unstructured data, enabling mission users to rapidly access, process, and exploit critical information.

Responsibilities

• Participation with iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements.
• Integrating AI/ML technology into a production web application.
• Designing, developing and unit testing code for a production system and demonstration capabilities.
• Developing rapid prototypes to drive out requirements and design.
• Providing demonstrations and detailed walk through of features to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, developing user stories, and translating these into software development tasks.
• Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed.
• Write and maintain technical documentation for application workflows, integrations, and compliance procedures.
• Optimize and enhance application performance, ensuring scalability and security.

Mandatory Skills

• An active security clearance with polygraph.
• Demonstrated 4-6 years in backend development – must be proficient in both Python and Java
• Demonstrated 4-6 years in frontend development like Angular
• Demonstrated 6-8 years of AWS Architecture design proficiency
• Significant proficiency 6-8 years in Linux – shell scripting, mounting drives, text editing with vi or emacs, system diagnostic checks [memory management, process running]
• Demonstrated 2-3 years working with AI/ML development and data science understanding
• Demonstrated experience on Agile software development teams following Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Demonstrated experience using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub for documenting work and team collaboration.
• Minimum 6-8 years of experience with SQL and NOSQL databases
• Minimum 6-8 years of demonstrated experience with development and deployment of applications in the Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment or an Amazon Web Services cloud environment.
• Minimum 6-8 years of demonstrated experience with search & analytic tools. Examples to include ElasticSearch, Solr/Lucene, OpenSearch.
• Minimum 2-4 years of demonstrated (Extract, Transform, Load - ETL) with large structured and unstructured raw data sets.
• Minimum 6-8 years of demonstrated ability to design, develop, test and implement new applications based on project requirements.
• The ability to work individually as well as the ability to work in project teams. Proven ability in decomposing concepts to discrete development tasks and managing your work to a deadline.
• Minimum 6-8 years of demonstrated ability in microservices up to and including docker, podman, and or containerization services.
• Minimum 6-8 years in Object Oriented programming. Python is preferred software development language

Desired Skills

• Demonstrated experience with text analytics and its applications/role/use in business intelligence/business analytics (i.e. search, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, document categorization) whether through education or experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing proof of concepts of new technologies and evaluating the state of the art in machine learning algorithms for text analytics whether through education or experience.
• Demonstrated experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow whether through education or experience.
• Demonstrated experience with data visualization tools (i.e. Tableau, Pandas, D3.js, ggplot, etc) whether through education or experience.
• Demonstrated experience with Relational or Non-Relational data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or DynamoDB whether through education or experience.
• Demonstrated experience using Natural Language Processing tools such as spaCy, NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, or Gensim Natural Language Processing whether through education or experience.
• Demonstrated experience using some of the following; Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Search Ranking, Duplicate Detection, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), Image Recognition, Fuzzy Search, Named Entity Recognition (NER), Document Categorization.

What’s in It for You?

• Flexible work environment
• A team mentality – work with friendly, like-minded professionals
• Work with innovative, cutting edge technologies
• Enjoy Extremely Competitive Compensation And Benefits
• A work-life balance you can count on
• Opportunities to grow and advance your career on our dime

The Benefits You Get with Freedom

• Amazing benefits including matching 401k, fully paid medical, and more
• Generous paid time off – including paid site closure days
• Competitive salary offerings
• Paid training and tuition reimbursement
• Referral bonuses
• Fully paid life and disability
• Annual logo wear allowance
• Company sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours)

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