Software Engineer with TS/SCI w/Polygraph

Location: ONSITE in Bethesda, MD

Clearance: ACTIVE ** TS/SCI REQUIRED with Polygraph**

Finch AI is a fast-growing, fast-paced software development organization; our mission is to build new ways of interacting with information. We do that by leveraging game-changing intellectual property, cloud infrastructure expertise, and a staff that is second to none. Together, we build and support products that address complex, real-time data and analytics needs in the enterprise.

As a Finch AI Software Engineer, you join a dynamic and agile team in the development of new Finch AI products. Our Engineers work within dynamic teams leveraging Finch AI's expertise solving large data problems. We look for strong Developers that thrive on solving challenges associated with creating new products and developing intellectual property. Our teams are comprised of successful people that enjoy solving problems, engaging in substantive technical discussions and have passion for their work. We have very high expectations in terms of skill, motivation, self-organization and productivity. We look for people who excel working in groups, virtual and collocated, as well as those who are comfortable with fast paced agile development.

What You'll do

• Understand product requirements and create solutions involving investigation, design, programming and testing
• Perform programming/scripting in a variety of languages on multiple Platforms including Linux
• Reading an existing codebase to understand the existing functionality
• Using common enterprise software design patterns such as MVC
• Using build tools such as Maven
• Understanding both functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Perform software testing and debugging to create high quality deliverables
• Maintain or create documentation
• Assist in creating and deploying software solutions
• Work collaboratively with the team to manage simultaneous projects

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• Scripting and programming languages: Python, Java
• Unit tests (Mockito preferred)
• Development frameworks: Spring Boot
• Microservice architectures, software platforms and frameworks like Kafka
• Monolithic and hybrid architectures and databases like PostgreSQL, Elastic
• Version control systems such as git, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, and container orchestration platforms such as Docker.
• You have hands-on experience with writing and maintaining automated tests (unit, integration, stress, load, etc.)
• Agile software development frameworks (Scrum)
• Atlassian products: Jira, Confluence

Education and work experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related engineering field
• 3+ years’ experience in overall software development and distributed applications
• Must be a US Citizen and hold an active TS/SCI Clearance with a Polygraph

Location: ONSITE in Bethesda, MD