Senior Back End Software Engineer at Global Reach Consulting LLC (Reston, VA)

We are looking for a Sr. Back End Software Engineer to help us build mobile telecom provisioning applications, data-processing and analytic services. 

What you’ll do…

The position will entail developing predominantly in Python and Javascript frameworks, using relational and non-relational databases, and deploying in a Linux-based micro-services architecture. 

You’d be a great fit if…

• Have 7+ years of relevant experience.


• have deep understanding / extensive experience in the general software engineering areas of:
  
  
  
  • Building client-server applications, to include defining protocols, handling errors, security (e.g. encryption), and testing.
  
  
  • Designing reusable APIs to include both library APIs and exposed web services APIs (REST, gRPC, etc.).
  
  
  • Use of message-bus architectures and message queue implementations.
  
  
  • Relational database schema design and implementation.
  
  
  • Horizontal scaling / concurrency via threads, non-blocking, actors, distributed worker processes, etc.
  
  
  • System performance analysis and tuning.
  
  
  
  


• Have significant experience with the following technologies / in these technical areas:
  
  
  
  • Python, including using Python in large-scale applications (packaging, etc.).
  
  
  • (Python) WSGI frameworks / application servers (e.g. Falcon, Flask, CherryPy).
  
  
  • Linux system usage and administration, to include tracing problems in network stack or system utilization, package management, etc.
  
  
  
  


• Have experience with:
  
  
  
  • Micro-service architectures
  
  
  • Structured logging, Elasticsearch, Kibana
  
  
  • Build frameworks, continuous integration tools.
  
  
  • Source control (git), collaboration tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence).
  
  
  
  


• Have ability to work in a multicultural environment


• Are organized and won’t stop until the job is “solved forever”.


• Attitude and aptitude are key. These traits trump all others.

• This position requires the candidate to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance.  In order to obtain a clearance, you need to be a U.S. Citizen and show proof of citizenship.

It would be even better if you had experience with…

• Listed examples of open-source work (e.g. github accounts).


• Interest and/or experience in data visualization.


• Experience with Javascript SPA framework(s) (e.g. Aurelia, AngularJS , etc.).


• Experience with async development (using Asyncio, Twisted, Tornado, etc.).


• Experience with container (e.g. Docker) build and deployment.


• Experience with PostgreSQL.

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