What are the responsibilities and job description for the X-Lab Software Engineer position at Blackstone Talent Group?
Job Description
Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking an X-Lab Software Engineer to join our client's team.
The Software Engineer's primary responsibility is to work as a mid-level member of the X-Lab software development team to develop and test innovative solutions in support of X-Lab projects and experiments. The candidate will primarily be responsible for software development using JAVA.
A successful candidate should be able to:
Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.
Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking an X-Lab Software Engineer to join our client's team.
The Software Engineer's primary responsibility is to work as a mid-level member of the X-Lab software development team to develop and test innovative solutions in support of X-Lab projects and experiments. The candidate will primarily be responsible for software development using JAVA.
A successful candidate should be able to:
- Interact with other people using good verbal and written communication skills
- Work independently or in a small group
- Be flexible in a highly dynamic and ever-changing environment
- Provide in-depth analysis and technical support of a large, distributed system written in JAVA
- Perform complex problem resolution, design, development, testing, integration, and user support for a large code baseline
- Follow specifications in order to develop or modify functionality with the code
- Assist with design, benchmark testing, debugging and documentation
- Interface with other system support groups to resolve problems, set standards and improve overall efficiency of the system
- Design, code, test and implement tools for automation
- Career level typically with an advanced degree and 3 years’ experience or bachelors with 5 years’ experience or equivalent; wide application of principles, theories, and concepts in their field and provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems with imaginative and thorough solutions; works under general direction, and results are reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives; failure to achieve results normally results in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources; frequent internal and external customer contacts and represents the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects.
- Command and control system application development
- Previous experience with message translation software
- Automated test and pipeline development experience
- Experience with Software Integration testing including developing automated test scripts
- Prior experience designing and developing microservices and deploying with containers
- Experience setting up a container environment
- Understanding of system engineering, systems design and development
- Ability to clearly document activities, write project plans and summary reports
- Strong knowledge of software practices and coding standards
- Experience developing software for Unix/Linux and Windows platforms
- Familiarity with Java Spring
- Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker/Kubernetes
- Knowledge of back-end development and message passing
- Experience developing enterprise applications
- Security certification obtained within 60 days of hire
Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.