Junior Software Engineer

Posted 6 Days Ago
Annapolis Junction, MD
In-Office
190K-420K Annually
Mid level
Information Technology • Security • Software
The Role
Join a mission-driven team to develop and improve a full-stack web platform handling data ingestion and processing. Collaborate on API development and ensure data integrity while enhancing user experience.
Summary Generated by Built In
Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!
 
Belay Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer to join our intel team. Join a high-impact, mission-driven team as a Full-Stack Software Engineer, supporting a mature and well-established technical organization. You’ll be a member of a 6-person team, which plays a critical role within a broader 20+ person development organization. The team develops and maintains data flows, data processing and transformation workflows, and ensures data integrity. The overall team supports a robust web-based platform that integrates diverse publicly available information (PAI) sources into a powerful analytical tool used by hundreds of mission customers. In this role, you'll contribute across the stack, developing ingest pipelines, building scalable REST APIs, and enhancing user-facing visualizations. The platform supports large-scale data ingestion, complex queries, and interactive analysis. You'll collaborate closely with other sub-teams on the project to ensure end-to-end functionality and performance. We're looking for a developer who is excited to contribute to all aspects of this system and who also brings an interest in improving team processes and tooling, particularly in ways that help us integrate new data sources more efficiently and deliver faster. This long-running software effort is known for its technical stability, team cohesion, and deep integration into mission-critical systems, offering you the opportunity to make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to the development and continual improvement of a mature software system; including code, diagrams, and tests
  • Leverage development and design patterns to ensure the product’s scalability, maintainability, and long-term success
  • Understand API-driven microservice design patterns, NoSQL databases, dataflow tools (Apache NiFi), and SpringBoot applications
  • Contribute to all parts of the data lifecycle, from collection to processing and transformation to storage, and facilitate presentation to analysts in our UI
  • Maintain a team player mentality as a collaborative member of a fast-paced, structured team

Candidates should have the following qualifications: 
  • TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
  • 3 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S
  • Java experience
  • Data wrangling or processing experience (discovery, mining, cleaning, exploration, modeling, structuring, enriching, and validating JSON data)
  • Familiarity with Git for version control and Maven for build automation
  • Comfortable working in a Linux development environment
  • Demonstrated willingness and ability to learn new tools, technologies, and workflows
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Candidates are desired to have the following skills:
  • Dataflow experience (e.g., Apache Nifi or similar tools)
  • Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, Dgraph, etc)
  • SpringBoot Rest APIs and Spring libraries (Spring Security, Spring Data, etc.)
  • Scripting with Bash, Python, and/or Groovy
  • Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) and automated testing (e.g., JUnit)
  • Experience using Atlassian tools, including Jira and Confluence, for task tracking and documentation
  • Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations

Perks and Benefits:
  • 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program
  • 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
  • $5,000 annual training/tuition
  • Student Loan Repayment Program
  • 100% company-funded HSA
  • Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
  • Dental coverage including orthodontia
  • Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded
  • Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes
  • Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!
 
At Belay, we are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally.  We believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. Several factors influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, education, specific skills and competencies and certifications. Belay offers a competitive total compensation package that includes benefits and perks, a flexible work-life balance, and career development.
Salary Range: $70,000 to $190,000
Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
 

Top Skills

Apache Nifi
AWS
Bash
Docker
Git
Groovy
Java
Kubernetes
Linux
Maven
NoSQL
Python
Spring Boot
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The Company
HQ: Columbia, MD
25 Employees

What We Do

Belay Technologies, Inc. is a certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) located in the Baltimore-Washington area providing technology and engineering services to the Department of Defense (DoD) and expanding into the commercial market. Belay Technologies specializes in technical IT services including; software development, virtualization, systems administration, networking, and testing.

Belay continues to expand, and we are always seeking top talent. Belay is more than just a company.....It's a culture. With our work hard, play hard edge and a family-like feel, our employees feel at home with Belay. We are a laid back, fun, innovative team that gets together monthly for lunches, enjoys company parties, bbq's and fun adventures together, and joins in volunteer and charity events as a socially aware company.

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