Java Software Engineer & Development Lead (Senior-Level or Higher Preferred)

Annual Salary: $230,000 - $270,000 (depends on experience level)

Up to 20% 401k contribution (no matching required)

Build Something to Be Proud Of.

Captivation Software has built a reputation on providing customers exactly what is needed in a timely manner. Our team of engineers take pride in what they develop and constantly innovate to provide the best solution. Captivation Software has an immediate need for a Java Software Engineer (Senior-Level or higher preferred) to lead and contribute to the development efforts of a team of 3-6 software and DevOps engineers in sustaining the large-scale, mission-critical tool. Experience as a member or lead of an Agile software development team is required.

Requirements

Security Clearance:

• Must currently hold a Top Secret / SCI U.S. Government security clearance w/ a Favorable Polygraph, therefore all candidates must be a U.S. citizen.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. Four (4) years of additional SWE experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.
• Master’s degree can be substituted for two (2) years experience

• Shall have at least eight (8) years experience as a Software Engineer in software development/engineering, including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, or problem diagnosis/resolution. The individual must be able to communicate directions and provide guidance to junior programmer/analysts, as required.

• Shall have at least six (6) years experience developing software developing software with high level languages such as Java, C, C++, JavaScript.

• Shall have at least three (3) years experience developing software for Microsoft Windows (XP or newer), or UNIX/Linux/Centos family of operating systems.

• Shall have experience on the design and development of at least one Object Oriented system.

• Shall have extensive experience in planning and accomplishing goals and complicated tasks and providing consultation on complex projects as top-level contributor or specialist.

• Shall have a firm grasp of modern computer programming with a minimum of six (6) years experience in programming and development of application software for complex systems and software testing.

• Shall have experience developing solutions integrating or extending FOSS/COTS products.

• Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.
• Acting as liaison between customers and the development team, to include triaging incoming requirements and requests for support and managing customer expectations

• Agile software development
• Unix/Linux environments (bash, scripting, ftp, .sh); bare metal
• Kubernetes
• Java, Java Spring Frameworks, general open source Java libraries
• RESTful Web/Reactive Services (Java/Spring/SpringBoot)
• Cloud-based streaming analytic environments with big data ingestion/processing (e.g., Heron, Flink, Pulsar, Kafka)

Desired Skills:

• Cloud-based data queuing, batching, and messaging (e.g., Pulsar Data Messaging, Pulsar Schema, Pulsar Functions, Flink Message Processing, NiFi)
• Containerization of services via Docker (e.g., DockerHub/Harbor, YAML files)
• Docker orchestration software (e.g., Kubernetes)
• SQL, NoSQL, and caching databases (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis/KeyDB)
• Automated build/deployment environments - production, staging, development (e.g., Maven, Jenkins, Git)
• eVo and UWE environments
• Agency reporting and dissemination policies
• Agency compliance, streaming, and analytic platforms

This position is open for direct hires only. We will not consider candidates from third party staffing/recruiting firms.

Benefits

• Annual Salary: $230,000 - $270,000 (depends on experience level)
  
• Up to 20% 401k contribution (no matching required)
• Above market hourly rates
• $3,000 HSA Contribution
• 5 Weeks Paid Time Off
• Company Paid Employee Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance / Life Insurance / Short-Term & Long-Term Disability / AD&D