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Software Engineer

Posted 4 hours ago

Company: Whitespace
Type: Full-time
Time zone: UTC-8 to UTC-3
Experience: 5+ years

Location: Remote / Alexandria, VA

Clearance: Active TS/SCI or eligibility to be cleared

GeoDelphi, Inc. dba Whitespace is seeking a dynamic and innovative Software Engineer to build cutting-edge solutions within our Answers platform. You’ll be essential to our Answers platform digital offering which is broken into a technological stack that is comprised of a source, engine, analytic, and a story layer. The engineering team is the technological backbone of our Answers platform working in the ‘engine layer’ to discover the ground truth. You’ll work with a team of engineers and developers designing tools to provide technical solutions to complex questions. The ideal candidate is creative, a problem solver, developer, designer, and appreciates delivering high-quality products. This position will report to the VP of Engineering.

This position is 100% remote! The candidate MUST be a US citizen and reside in the contiguous United States. The candidate must be a W2 employee of GeoDelphi, Inc. No 3rd party applications.

Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

Research, develop, design, implement, and test software geared towards population simulation
Work with customers/end users to define project requirements, and turn those requirements into an achievable timeline
Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in back-end development tools and technologies
Write well designed, testable, and efficient code in various languages, primarily Java.
Recommend changes to improve established application processes
Prepare and produce releases of software components
Provide technical support and consultation for application and infrastructure questions

EXPERIENCE

Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a software engineering role
Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production software
Strong coding abilities emphasizing quality and testability in your work.
Utilize programming languages such as Java and Python
Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
Demonstrated experience with continuous integration and software CM processes/tools (GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Nexus, and other DevOps/Continuous Integration tools)
Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and query optimization
Experience acquiring client requirements and resolving workflow problems through automation optimization

DESIRED SKILLS

Experience with population simulation, or other data simulation
Experience with geospatial engineering
Experience with Big Data processing tools, such as Spark/Hadoop, Google’s BigQuery, AWS’s Athena and EMR
Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Google, Azure
Strong data visualization skills