Senior Software Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Belay Technologies
Location: Columbia, MD 21044
Description:
Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!
Belay Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer to join our intel team. You will act as a senior back-end software engineer, helping to design and develop an entirely new graph analysis platform that - for the very first time - will allow our mission customers to visualize, analyze, and traverse their expansive and complex mission data in a graph format and in near-real-time. This is an ambitious, high-visibility project with a tremendous opportunity to transform core customer workflows; performance, usability, and scalability are key project goals. To be successful, you will work closely with analysts and operators to gain first-person insight into their missions, workflows, and perspectives, then utilize that knowledge to inform the platform's design. You will write and optimize graph retrieval queries, design and maintain ingest processes, and develop batch and streaming analytics that answer key customer questions and surface critical insights.
Responsibilities:
Candidates should have the following qualifications:
Candidates are desired to have the following skills:
Perks and Benefits:
At Belay, we are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally. We believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. Several factors influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, education, specific skills and competencies and certifications. Belay offers a competitive total compensation package that includes benefits and perks, a flexible work-life balance, and career development.
Salary Range: $190,000 to $240,000
Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Belay Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer to join our intel team. You will act as a senior back-end software engineer, helping to design and develop an entirely new graph analysis platform that - for the very first time - will allow our mission customers to visualize, analyze, and traverse their expansive and complex mission data in a graph format and in near-real-time. This is an ambitious, high-visibility project with a tremendous opportunity to transform core customer workflows; performance, usability, and scalability are key project goals. To be successful, you will work closely with analysts and operators to gain first-person insight into their missions, workflows, and perspectives, then utilize that knowledge to inform the platform's design. You will write and optimize graph retrieval queries, design and maintain ingest processes, and develop batch and streaming analytics that answer key customer questions and surface critical insights.
Responsibilities:
- Design and architect complex, enterprise-grade software solutions for a streaming analytic app that uses Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka
- Work with another senior back-end engineer to support the project's containerized environments in both Docker and Kubernetes
- Utilize Java and Spring Boot while applying leading design patterns to ensure the product's scalability and maintainability
- Develop and optimize various streaming analytics to transform and analyze data in a performant way
- Become proficient with the project's Neo4j graph database; develop, optimize, and troubleshoot graph queries
- Work regularly with stakeholders to understand the domain, elicit requirements, and devise solutions. Solve real customer problems!
Candidates should have the following qualifications:
- TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
- 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.
- Expert with Java and Spring Boot; proficient using them to build enterprise scale applications
- Experienced building real-time data processing applications using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams
- Understanding of common Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and how to apply them
- Experience with service containerization and deployment using Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) software patterns to ingest large and complex datasets
- Familiarity with Git and GitLab CI/CD
Candidates are desired to have the following skills:
- Experience with Graph databases such as Neo4j
- Experience building real-time data processing application using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams
- Experience modeling data and relationships in graph databases
- Experience with networking concepts, protocols, and analysis (routers, switches, etc.)
- Knowledge in SIGINT collection and analysis systems
- Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations
Perks and Benefits:
- 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program
- 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
- $5,000 annual training/tuition
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- 100% company-funded HSA
- Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
- Dental coverage including orthodontia
- Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded
- Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes
- Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!
At Belay, we are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally. We believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. Several factors influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, education, specific skills and competencies and certifications. Belay offers a competitive total compensation package that includes benefits and perks, a flexible work-life balance, and career development.
Salary Range: $190,000 to $240,000
Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.