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When it comes to what you want in your career, if you can imagine it, you can do it at Parsons.  Imagine a career working with intelligent, diverse people sharing a common quest. Imagine a workplace where you can be yourself. Where you can thrive. Where you can find your next, right now. We’ve got what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

Are you a software engineer looking to improve and enhance mission-critical software applications? Do you want to design and develop customer software that will be deployed in systems helping make the country a safer place?

Parsons' Defense and Intelligence Market is looking for a self-starter who will be able to derive software requirements from customer interaction, take the lead in proposing new software capabilities, and identify improvements to existing software systems.

Additionally, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop, accomplish, and excel in each of the following functions:

• Lead a software development effort, and create a roadmap for capability development
• Conduct rapid software prototyping to demonstrate and evaluate technologies
• Conduct applied research in the areas of current and emerging computer technology and make recommendations based on research and analysis
• Investigate commercial and custom SDKs and APIs to identify additional integration capabilities
• Develop and maintain software development architecture, and make recommendations for improvement
• Conduct hands-on programming using Java
• Write highly efficient, multithreaded code
• Develop, compile, debug, test, deploy, document, and implement programs for new and existing systems (COTS / GOTS / Proprietary)
• Interface and communicate with other development teams for collaboration and integration efforts
• The ideal candidate will develop scalable web-based data visualization and analytic platforms using Java, JavaScript (TypeScript), Angular, SPA, Servlets, Web services, ETL Pipelines, databases (Elasticsearch, MariaDB), Docker, Python

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields
• Minimum of 2-3 years of hands-on software development experience in Java
• Experience with popular open source Java libraries and frameworks

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience using Web and API frameworks such as RESTEasy, XML, JSON, Servlets etc.
• Experience in application/web server environment like Spring Boot
• Experience using Git
• Experience using build tools such as Gradle or Maven
• Familiarity with DevOps and Continuous Integration toolsets and concepts
• Experience interfacing with back-end applications, for example, using RESTful web services, message queues, gRPC, JSON, YAML etc.
• Knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MariaDB
• Experience working in Linux development and production environments
• Skills relating to: Java, Spring, ETL Pipelines, Webservices, REST APIs, system performance/optimizations
• Database/IPC (inter-process communication) experience: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, LDAP, Redis, RabbitMQ
• Experience with front-end technologies such as Angular, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (TypeScript), Material UI
• Experience with scripting languages and integration tools such as Bash, Python, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker
• Familiarity with networking concepts and protocols

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: 

$61,200.00 - $107,100.00

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!