Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Location: Chantilly, VA – with hybrid opportunities

Clearance: Secret

Data Driven. People Centered.

Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.

We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.

Join our team and find great opportunities to hone your analytic skills, work on complex problems with amazing teammates, and gain valuable analytics consulting experience.

Summary of Position:

We are looking for an experienced Java Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will design, develop, and implement Java applications, develop and test software, and resolving technical issues that arise.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of Java experience
• 5+ years of Spring Boot (Spring Framework) experience
• Experience with testing frameworks and tools (e.g. JUnit, AssertJ, Mockito, Spring Runner)
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Experience working within a Linux environment
• Experience with AWS OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
• Experience working with a message-driven architecture (e.g. SNS/SQS, Kafka, Kinesis, JMS, etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK, Cloudwatch, Ansible)
• Experience with Git for source control
• Ability to determine the right tool or technology for the task at hand
• Works well in a team environment and strong communication skills

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity in the AWS ecosystem of services (e.g. S3, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Lake Formation, EMR, ECS, RDS, Kinesis, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc)
• Familiarity with Reactive Programming (e.g. Project Reactor, RxJava)
• Experience operating Data Lakes or Data Hubs with knowledge on how to optimize storage technology for client access patterns, and how to propagate CRUD operations throughout a distributed stack (including versioning nuances).
• Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g. Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi)
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker container environment
• Ability to identify external data specifications for common data representations
• Experience building monitoring and alerting mechanisms for applications and data pipelines (e.g. Prometheus alerting, CloudWatch, etc)
• Contributor to an open source community

About Elder Research, Inc

Elder Research is a fast-growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data science business over 20 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative and innovative solutions to real world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong teamwork.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning; each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” followed by an office lunch. 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.