Are you interested in working in a dynamic environment that offers opportunities for professional growth and new responsibilities by helping clients drive alignment with their business, advising through critical and complex issues, while allowing you to develop personally and professionally? Then consider a career at NS2 Mission. We have grown into an industry leading provider of technology services to the IC, DoD, and U.S. Government.

Position Description: Are you looking to be a key member of a small team with big mission impact? Do you enjoy building applications to exploit high-value data? NS2 Mission is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed professional to fill the role of Software Engineer SME. This position will be joining our team based in the Tysons, VA area. This position will focus on front-end development in Vue.js, with a Java backend, for a production search application. The developer will be responsible for communicating system features and concepts to other team members, end users, and program management. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assisting the development team, debugging various development and O&M processes, and maintaining system documentation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with fellow team members to understand user requirements, design application features, and build application capabilities for search and discovery.
• Assist data engineers with data modeling and ETL processes to make raw data usable within the ecosystem of our search application.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and roadmap for our systems to continually improve the power, speed, and usability of our services.

Required Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of relevant experience
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience programming in Vue.js, JavaScript, CSS, Java Spring/Spring Boot, and HTML5, or other related programming languages
• Experience building and using REST APIs
• Experience with relational databases and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of software practices and configuration management.
• Experience with JIRA, Git, Artifactory, or related tools
• Experience working on large mission critical software projects
• Experience with continuous integration
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic team environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with entity resolution across datasets
• Experience with visualization frameworks such as D3.js, V Charts, or Chartkick
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience with Extract, Load, and Transform (ETL) tools
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience working in an Agile development environment

Position Clearance Requirement:

TS/SCI with FSP

 Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship.

NS2 Mission is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. NS2 Mission is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.

By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that NS2 Mission may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide in your application, with its affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

NS2 Mission maintains a drug-free workplace and may perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, where required by contract and permitted by law.