Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Developer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Reston, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor applies technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. The Sponsor requires support to maintain and enhance an existing big data exploitation platform. The Contractor will work within an agile team environment. Work will include creating Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based resources; writing, testing, and debugging custom application code; administering database services; and performing data cleaning, formatting, and other forms of data management. The Team shall work closely with the Sponsor’s product owner and program manager to deliver user stories necessary to realize product vision. The Team shall coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements. The Team shall apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor’s project management and software development frameworks with a focus on demonstrating and delivering releasable software every iteration. The Team shall create and maintain JWICS-accessible resources within the Sponsor’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environment. The Team shall ensure all security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity and maintain security accreditation, including maintaining plan of action for vulnerability remediation. The Team shall maintain all source code in Sponsor-wide, remote Git repository. The Team shall apply industry best practices (such as, but not specifically Test Driven Development) for ensuring custom application code is comprehensively tested. The Team shall administer and maintain relational and non-relational transactional database systems within the application security boundary. The Team shall perform data cleaning and formatting for ingested data ensuring they meet quality and content management standards.

THE ROLE

Ideally candidates will have experience with Customer Side AWS, SOLR, Ruby, Rails, Bootstrap, MySQL/PostGreSQL, Angular, API Layer, ETL, and Jenkins. Candidates don't have to masters of all of these skills, but should be willing to dive in & learn quickly.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining cloud based platforms.
• Demonstrated experience administering, securing, and scaling AWS EC2 resources consisting of CentOS/Linux servers with some configured as MySQL database servers.
• Demonstrated experience applying front end technologies, including HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining applications using Ruby on Rails with Apache Solr.
• Demonstrated experience developing software in a DevSecOps environment.
• Demonstrated experience with modern system architecture patterns, such as event-driven, microservices and MVC architectures.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with automated testing and deployment.
• Demonstrated experience using Git as a source code repository. 

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience with Angular, React, or Vue.js
• Demonstrated experience with D3.js or OpenLayers 3

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.