Lead Software Engineer - Back-End Development
Arlington, Virginia
At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.
Two Six Technologies is looking to add a Lead Software Engineer to our team building a next generation cyber defense situational awareness and command and control platform. In this role you would be working with our Core Team performing back-end development to both refactor existing server code in production and design and develop new code modules and microservices. The candidate should have a track record demonstrating the ability to research new technologies, document and propose designs to team members, quickly prototype solutions, and, ultimately, produce dependable and testable commercial-grade code. This position focuses on back-end development in Python 3 (Java experience is also desired) with SQL databases, various communication technologies (message queues, event streams like Kafka, etc.), and various API architectures such as REST and gRPC.
The work is hybrid and the selected candidate will be required to work in the office up to 4 days/week.
Responsibilities Include:
- Developing and maintaining new back-end code modules and microservices to provide a variety of functionality (authentication, data transformation and querying, etc.) for software platforms
- Developing and maintaining API handlers with a variety of technologies (gRPC, REST, etc.)
- Developing and maintaining integrations with a variety of SQL and NoSQL (Elastic, Redis, etc.) databases
- Working with the team to come up with dynamically scalable and parallelizable solutions
- Working with team to continuously refactor existing back-end code for scalability and usability
- Writing and maintaining documentation
- Taking initiative to rapidly prototype new solutions to changing problem sets
- Present and collaborate on possible solutions with team members
What you need to be successful:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 5 years experience in Python 3 development
- Minimum 5 years experience engineering systems with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with API development
- Experience leading or mentoring junior engineers
- Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a government security clearance up to TS/SCI
Nice to have skills:
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
- Experience with Python packages: FastAPI, requests, asyncio, flask, Tornado, or similar
- Experience with OAuth2, RESTful APIs, and other web standards
- Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Experience using Jira and other Atlassian tools in a development workflow
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience working in a hybrid environment
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Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect the value we place on our employees and their contributions. We believe in rewarding skills, experience, and performance. Our offerings include but are not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development.
The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.
Salary Range
$95,400 - $203,500 USD
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