Lead Software Engineer - Backend Development

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.

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 global-scale networking situational awareness and command and control platform. In this role you would be working with our back-end development team 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 (Go experience is also desired) with SQL and NoSQL databases, various communication technologies (message queues, event streams like Kafka, etc.), and various API architectures such as REST and gRPC.

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

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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 Top Secret Clearance or higher

Desired Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Experience with Python packages: FastAPI, requests, asyncio, flask, Tornado, or similar
• Experience with Golang
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch
• Experience in React or Vue 3
• Experience with gRPC development
• Experience architecting for deployment to cloud environments such as AWS or MS Azure as well as bare metal
• Experience with automated test development and frameworks
• Docker and/or Kubernetes experience
• Experience using Jira in a development workflow
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience working in a hybrid environment
• Experience working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments

Location:

• If not located in Arlington or Augusta, must be willing to travel up to 50% time as required by the project/team/customer

Citizenship and Clearance:

• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a government security clearance up to TS/SCI

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