Description
The DarkStar Group is seeking an Applications Developer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Tysons, 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 maintains a customized application which provides ingest, workflow, and research capabilities for analysts to review, disposition, build profiles in order to either update or nominate candidates to Sponsor’s partnering systems.

The Sponsor is responsible for building specific aspects of the system and the integration and implementation into production.
THE ROLE

• The Contractor Team shall develop and maintain a modern micro-service oriented, high profile, mission-enabling application.
• The Contractor Team shall join the existing development team and provide full-stack application development support for a newly developed Sponsor system to be deployed into production.
• The Contractor Team shall ensure that all development activities comply with the Sponsor’s security and architectural policies and regulations.
• The Contractor Team shall be required to communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams.
• The Contractor Team shall be required to work with the Sponsor staff and contractor analyst personnel, to include external stakeholders, when applicable.
• The Contractor Team shall develop the Sponsor’s application, via JavaScript, node.js-based CSS Styles user interfaces.
• The Contractor Team shall employ the ReactJS framework including Kendo and MaterialUI for presentation and Redux/Saga for data manipulation against the Sponsor’s Postgres database.
• The Contractor Team shall develop, operate, and maintain data processing applications, to include but not limited to, applications data feeds, ETL (extract/transform/load) workflows, entity extraction, and user-facing web applications.
• The Contractor Team shall adhere to core hours between 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM, subject to concurrence by the Sponsor.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience with modern, modular, event-driven micro-services architectures.
• Demonstrated experience developing applications in an Amazon AWS infrastructure environment (EC2, S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, NLB).
• Demonstrated experience developing web applications using ReactJS, including Kendo and MaterialUI for front-end UI/UX and Redux & Saga for data interactions.
• Demonstrated experience with web UI frameworks, such as Kendo UI toolkit.
• Demonstrated experience with CSS.
• Demonstrated experience with Version control systems such as Git.
• Demonstrated experience with Continuous integration systems such as Jenkins.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile Rapid Application Development methodology.
• Demonstrated experience with working in a very fast-paced, technically challenging area; ability to anticipate and manage changes or problems; assess impacts and recommend sound solutions.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining software including web services, web-based user interfaces, and data processing type services such as ETL workflows/scripts.
• Demonstrated experience with REST services.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience with Go HTML Templates.
• Demonstrated experience with AlpineJS/htmx JavaScript libraries.
• Demonstrated experience with graphs and graph data modeling

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.