Journeyman Software Engineer

Innovative, Secure, and Outcome-Based Solutions

Job Summary: A Journeyman Software Engineer job in Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, or Arlington Area is currently available through Belcan at one of our key Defense clients. To be considered for this role, you will have a Bachelor's degree in a computer or data science field and a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.

Job Duties:

• Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence based support capabilities including the software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
• Develops front end and backend of software prototypes, components, and tooling that can be leveraged to speed prototyping process.
• Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
• Maintains the existing code base of in-production applications, performing bug fixes, updates of code and component libraries to meet security and performance needs as required, and capability enhancements as planned in the sprint schedule.
• Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines.
• Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies.
• Analyzes and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components.
• Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping of AI capabilities, including Generative AI.
• Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form the basis of scalable AI solutions.
• Documents requirements and specifications and reviews documentation provided by other teams and vendors.
• Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics.
• Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
• Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience with front end frameworks like React or Vue.
• Experience with backend runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools.
• DevSecOps experience including the use of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tooling (Git runners, code scanning tools).
• Experience with containerization and use of Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Object Relational Modeling persistence frameworks (e.g. SQLAlchemy), and with PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with the use of ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, and Neo4J as persistent stores.
• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services as well as front-end frameworks.
• Strong communications skills: you will be required to proactively engage fellow CDAO members both inside and outside of your team.
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
• DoDD 8140 IAT Level III is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Compensation: We provide a competitive pay and benefits package. This position is offering a salary range of 155,000-175,000. Belcan considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to education, experience, geographic location, and discipline. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.