Backend Software Developer

Backend Software Developer

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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What You’ll Get to Do

CACI’s ITEMSS Program is hiring an experienced Back-End software developer for product team based in Pittsburgh and the Northern Virginia areas. Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the Best Practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Defense.

CACI programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse team is crucial.

The ideal candidate should have a thorough understanding of agile software development practices and experience delivering deployable software in short sprints.  They will work as an integral part of an Agile Scrum team–a highly productive team of technical professionals who thrive on supporting the customer's mission and growth objectives. The individual will work in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the backend code base for multiple Python web applications (Django and Flask)

• Design and implement web application backends using Python

• Develop and execute unit tests for software components

• Collaborate with a software development team using Git

• Designing, developing and implementing custom software capabilities for an Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Platform with limited oversight

• Acts as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a positive attitude to ensure product and team success

• Provide significant improvements to the platform being supported

• Active participation in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases

• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, and methodology

• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports

• Provide input on best practices and procedures creation

• Developing new and refining existing process to enhance quality and productivity

Required Skills:

• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline.  Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of degree

• Deep technical expertise in software design and implementation focused in web applications

• Professional Experience: at least ten (10) years related technical experience, with software design, development and implementation

• 10 years’ experience Python development with web frameworks (Django required, Flask preferred)

• 10 years’ experience working with Object Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture

• 10 years’ experience designing and building RESTful APIs that manage large amounts of data

• Experience developing applications in remote (cloud based) environments

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with at least an interim DOD Secret clearance or higher

• Experience working on unusually complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative, exhibit ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness

• Ability to apply estimation techniques to software development efforts

• Ability to identify and manage risk

• Strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team

• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic and a self-starter

• Able to be methodical in documenting and testing your own code

• Comfortable working independently and as a member of a team

• Acts independently to expose and resolve problems

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Skills:

• Experience building data extract, transform, and load pipelines for web applications

• Experience using Data Science libraries like Pandas for data manipulation and transformation

• Experience optimizing and