Software Developer - MID

Bison Group offers expert services to the Intelligence industry and National Defense customer. Building upon a foundation of “Mission First”. We are committed to advancing our talented personnel to achieve excellence.

Position Description:

The Bison Group is seeking Software Developers in order to support its government customer in Reston, VA. The program’s mission provides full stack development of DoD Intelligence Applications. The program has over 30 applications currently in development across over ~10 Agile Teams. The ideal candidate will be familiar with the software development life cycle including the planning, design, development and implementation, deployment and maintenance stages. They also require an in-depth knowledge of different programming languages, frameworks and tools. Software Developers will know how to write elegant code based on product specifications and requirements. They should be familiar with testing, debugging and improving their code and the work of their team members to deliver products on schedule. The ability to learn new programming languages, collect feedback and improve existing software is a desirable quality in applicants. They also require a good understanding of algorithms, flow charts and mathematical concepts that form the basis of computer programming. This is a full-time position and requires a TS/SCI Clearance and a recent polygraph. The work will be both classified and unclassified allowing for some work from home flexibility in a hybrid work environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Producing clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Testing and deploying programs and systems
• Fixing and improving existing software
• Work with other developers to design algorithms and flowcharts
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
• Proven experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer or similar role
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with software design and development in a test-driven environment
• Knowledge of below coding languages and frameworks/systems
• Experience with below databases and ORM frameworks
• Excellent communication skills
• Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude
• Attention to detail
• Hands on full stack development experience applying a mix of the following:
  • Java
  • Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate
  • Angular (10, 11, 12)
  • PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis
  • WildFly, Tomcat, Apache
  • Docker, VM, Kafka/Zookeeper, Keycloak, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Grey Matter, Ansible
  • Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify, Threadfix, Prisma Cloud (Twistlock), Nessus
  • AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, DynamoDB)
  • Jira, Bitbucket, Git, Confluence, Artifactory, SVN
  • JSP, Knockout JS, Ext JS (CHROME legacy apps)
  • REST, SOAP
  • Activiti, Alfresco
  • Maven, Gradle, Ant, npm
  • Postman, Swagger
  • JUnit, Mockito, JMeter, LoadRunner
  • GOTS/COTS Enterprise – CMT, AccessIT, DIAS, JADE, Splunk, CDIR, SMART.neXt
  • JavaScript, Node, React, and GraphQL

Bison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Recommended Skills

• Activiti (Software)
• Agile Methodology
• Algorithms
• Amazon Dynamo Db
• Amazon Elasti Cache
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud