Key skills
PythonJavaSQLNoSQLAIBigQuerySparkHadoopAWSAzureJenkinsAthenaGitLabJiraConfluenceAgileProblem Solving
About this role
Whitespace is a company that builds AI solutions for global leaders, recognized for its innovation in the Geospatial Industry. They are seeking a Mid-Senior Level Software Engineer to support a research and development project focused on population simulation and software development for the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Responsibilities:
- Research, develop, design, modify, write, 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
Requirements:
- Active TS/SCI clearance or eligibility to be cleared
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a software engineering role
- Experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production software
- Assist in defining architecture requirements and establishing standards for design and development
- Consults with management and customers regarding product feasibility and viability of product plans and designs
- 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
- Provides product demonstrations and participates in trade shows, seminars, industry panels, and user group meetings
- Experience acquiring client requirements and resolving workflow problems through automation optimization
- Interacts with customers regarding strategies, requirements, problem solving, and support
- Bachelor's Degree is desired but not required. Will consider experience in lieu of a degree
- Experience with population simulation, or other data simulation
- Experience leading a software development effort across the full spectrum of government Modeling and Simulation environments
- 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