Full Stack Developer

Full Stack Developer

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with polygraph

On-site Location: McLean, VA

Home office: Arlington, VA

People Centered. Data Driven

Elder Research Inc. is a recognized leader in data science, machine learning and AI. We pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems. We are looking for innovative and inquisitive self-starters who enjoy understanding a problem space and building fast, efficient, and tractable data infrastructure to deliver real value for our clients.

Summary of Position:

We are looking for a curious and passionate person to join our team! This is a unique opportunity to work on an exciting project that is very rewarding and join a growing center of excellence in machine learning and artificial intelligence within the Intelligence Community. In this role, you will provide Full-Stack Development for re-architecting and modernizing the customer & mission-focused operational system. This will include their web application, backend database and ingest capability for existing and new data providers. The majority of the code is written in Java and will need to be updated, improved or rewritten in Python as we modernize and migrate to the cloud.

Job Requirements/Minimum Skills Required:

• Must be a US Citizen

• Must have a TS/SCI with Polygraph

• Willing to work onsite in Government customer sites in Northern Virgina

• Typically requires a minimum of 3-7 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 1-5 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.

• Senior: Typically requires a minimum of 8-12 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 6-8 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3-5 years experience; or equivalent experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience with software development

Preferred Skillset:

• Programming experience with Java, Python, and JavaScript

• Experience with PostgreSQL

• Experience using CSS or component frameworks to design and build advanced UI workflows

• Experience designing and building front-end user interfaces using JavaScript to include a reactive framework such as React and Vue.js

• Experience building 3D visualizations and front-end applications with CesiumJS

• Experience consuming data from REST APIs

• Familiarity with building and deploying containerized microservices and applications with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience configuring and managing Elastic Stack components to include configuring and managing an Elasticsearch cluster, configuring Logstash and other Beats data providers, and building visualizations and dashboards in Kibana

• Understanding of Geospatial concepts and exposure to GIS technologies

• Understanding of imagery data, metadata ingest, processing, storage, and retrieval

• Understanding of Full Motion Video (FMV), metadata ingest, storage and display

• Experience building and using CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitLab

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its core services (i.e., EC2, S3, SQS)

About Elder Research, Inc

Elder Research is a growing consulting firm specializing in data (analytics, data science, AI and machine learning), and related strategy and training. Our organization has over 25 years of experience and 100+ practitioners that have partnered with hundreds of organizations to achieve significant value through innovative applications of data, analytics, and people-centered processes.

We are tackling hard problems, big and small, where off-the-shelf solutions dont work or dont exist. To achieve success, we value humble, hardworking teammates with the ability to be flexible, think critically and experiment.

At Elder Research, youll be part of a fun, friendly, and supportive community where we need each other to succeed, your point of view matters, and asking questions with a beginners mindset is applauded. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates that are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work ethic. We are constantly learning and offer teammates free access to a wide range of learning opportunities including Elders own platform statistics.com and technical mentors or sponsors. Broadening and deepening your technical and consulting skills both on the job and off is something we are passionate about, and we pay you to do it.

To achieve success with defense, intelligence and security work we frequently bring together the expertise of decision-makers, analysts, agents, investigators, and even behavioral scientists. Our team enjoys great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of analytic techniques and tools.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Elder Research is a Government contractor and our positions require US Citizenship.