SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Onsite Location: Herndon, VA
Clearance Required: TS/SCI
People Centered. Data Driven
Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.
We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Principal Cyber Software Engineer to join our team! To be successful in this role, you should have experience with agile software methodology, and software engineering design best practices. You will work within a cross-functional Scrum team, and will be responsible for developing software, participating in acceptance criteria development, creating scripts, and utilizing Open Source and COTS tools to automate testing, documenting instructions, and participating in integration activities.
Job Specifications/Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or related field and 9+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree with 7 years of relevant experience OR a PhD with 4 years of relevant experience.
- Experience performing software engineering and development activities associated with supporting, maintaining, and enhancing software using an Agile DevSecOps model.
- Experience developing and integrating bug fixes and new feature enhancements using standard development tools and processes.
- Framework-based Java RESTful API development (i.e. Spring Boot)
- Java unit testing with JUnit
- An active TS/SCI security clearance is required for this role
Desired Skills
- Experience working and deploying in AWS
- Experience using Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence
- Experience with JSON API contracts
About Elder Research, Inc
Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business over 20 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.
Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.
Elder Research believes in continuous learning; each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” followed by an office lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others.
Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Elder Research is a Government contractor and our positions require US Citizenship.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $100,553.42 - $176,892.53 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Supplemental pay types:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Herndon, VA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience:
- REST: 1 year (Preferred)
- Java: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person