Software Engineer
The Swift Group7 months ago
Herndon, VA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize backend services, APIs, and microservices.
- Contribute to the architecture and scaling of large-scale distributed systems with emphasis on performance, reliability, and security.
- Develop and deploy services in cloud environments.
- Engineer relational database capabilities for high-volume, data-intensive applications.
- Build, optimize, and operate containerized services across the platform.
- Troubleshoot production issues, improve monitoring, and optimize system performance.
- Collaborate with developers, data engineers, and platform teams to support data science, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 10+ years of experience building and operating software applications or platform-level systems.
- Strong proficiency with Java, Python, at least one of Postgres, MySQL, or MariaDB, Linux, and AWS.
- Hands-on experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed-system design.
- Proficiency with SQL databases, data-intensive application patterns, cloud deployment and operations, containers, and Git-based repositories including GitLab or GitHub.
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, testing, and secure coding practices.
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
- Preferred experience with Hadoop, Spark, Yarn, Hive, Trino, RBAC, ABAC, enterprise access-control systems, multitenant or high-availability platforms, security hardening, and Ansible.
Benefits
- Onsite position located in Herndon, Virginia.
- A $5,000 employee referral bonus is paid when a referred candidate is hired, at the new hire’s 90-day mark.
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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).