Software Engineer - Back End - R129

Location: Herndon, VA

Department: Computer Vision - Deep Learning/AI

Location Type: IN_OFFICE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Work with an extremely talented, motivated, supportive and welcoming team in an Agile ecosystem to design new features for TDS, develop new capabilities using the latest open-source frameworks, and work directly with end-users to ensure TDS is solving their mission needs.
• Develop features, bugfixes, and automated workflows for the system using Python 3, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services.
• Embrace opportunities for technical leadership and mentor other team members
• Drive technical discussions and be proactive in identifying and resolving issues.
• Contribute to SDLC and coding best practices.
• Develop and design RESTful APIs and streaming services.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

• United States Citizenship
• An active TS/SCI security clearance
• A minimum of 5 years of backend development experience, ideally in AWS Cloud environments
• Fundamental understanding of cloud computing concepts (serverless, scalability, microservices, high availability, and durability)
• Experience with integrating Kubernetes, Docker or other containerized ecosystems 
• Relational database design, implementation, configuration, and query experience
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining database indexes and/or optimizing database queries
• Familiarity with object-oriented design and languages. Most of our developers write Python and/or JavaScript.
• Comfortable working with Linux (Ubuntu) based operating systems (command line operations, scripting)
• Configuration Management (CM) experience using Git and familiarity with branching strategies
• Enjoy learning new technologies and creating compelling software.
• Work with minimum supervision as part of a collaborative, agile team.
• BA/BS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or closely related field

• Interest in AI/ML algorithm deployment at scale.
• 5+ years' work experience with AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFormation, EC2, ALB, IAM, and SQS (need not have experience with all)