Software Engineer
The Swift Group5 months ago
Herndon, VA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain full-stack and backend services, APIs, microservices, and supporting JavaScript and Node.js applications.
- Contribute to the architecture, modernization, scaling, performance, reliability, and security of large-scale distributed and cloud-native systems.
- Develop and deploy services using AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC, Auto Scaling, and CloudFormation.
- Work with relational databases supporting high-volume, data-driven applications.
- Build, optimize, and operate containerized services across the platform.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, and apply DevOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Troubleshoot production issues, improve monitoring, and optimize system performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent education.
- 10+ years of experience building and operating software applications or platform-level systems.
- Strong Java proficiency with working knowledge of JavaScript and/or Node.js.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting.
- Experience with relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, or MariaDB.
- Proficiency in Linux environments, including Red Hat and CentOS.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure management.
- Experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed system design.
- Proficiency with Git-based repositories such as GitLab and GitHub and modern development workflows including CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong experience with containers and containerized deployments.
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, testing, and secure coding practices.
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
- Preferred experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, CloudFormation, Hadoop, Spark, Yarn, Hive, Trino, RBAC, ABAC, multi-tenant or high-availability platforms, security hardening, and AWS certifications.
Benefits
- Onsite positions are available in McLean, Herndon, and Chantilly, Virginia.
- The company offers a $5,000 referral bonus for a hired referral, paid at the new hire’s 90-day mark.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache HadoopApache HiveApache SparkAWSBashGitJavaJavaScriptJenkinsLinuxMariaDBMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonTerraformYarn
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About The Swift Group
The Swift Group is a privately held IT services and solutions firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia, founded in 2019. It delivers software development, systems engineering, data science, cyber enablement, logistics, and training to U.S. civilian, defense, and intelligence community clients, largely via federal contracts. Engagements often involve global operations and secure environments, and many positions require U.S. citizenship and high-level clearances (e.g., TS/SCI with polygraph).