Description: You will act as a senior back-end software engineer, helping to design and develop an entirely new graph analysis platform that – for the very first time – will allow our mission customers to visualize, analyze, and traverse their expansive and complex mission data in a graph format and in near-real-time. This is an ambitious, high-visibility project with a tremendous opportunity to transform core customer workflows; performance, usability, and scalability are key project goals. To be successful, you will work closely with analysts and operators to gain first-person insight into their missions, workflows, and perspectives, then utilize that knowledge to inform the platform's design. You will write and optimize graph retrieval queries, design and maintain ingest processes, and develop batch and streaming analytics that answer key customer questions and surface critical insights.
Responsibilities:
Design and architect complex, enterprise-grade software solutions for a streaming analytic app that uses Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
Work with another senior back-end engineer to support the project's containerized environments in both Docker and Kubernetes.
Utilize Java and Spring Boot while applying leading design patterns to ensure the product's scalability and maintainability.
Develop and optimize various streaming analytics to transform and analyze data in a performant way.
Become proficient with the project's Neo4j graph database; develop, optimize, and troubleshoot graph queries.
Work regularly with stakeholders to understand the domain, elicit requirements, and devise solutions. Solve real customer problems!
Skills Requirements:
Expert with Java and Spring Boot; proficient using them to build enterprise scale applications.
Experience building real-time data processing applications using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams.
Understanding of common Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and how to apply them
Experience with service containerization and deployment using Docker and/or Kubernetes.
Experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) software patterns to ingest large and complex datasets.
Familiarity with Git and GitLab CI/CD.
Nice to Haves:
Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j.
Experience building real-time data processing applications using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams.
Experience modeling data and relationships in graph databases.
Experience with networking concepts, protocols, and analysis (routers, switches, etc.).
Knowledge of SIGINT collection and analysis systems.
Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.
YOE Requirement: 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S. Location: Contractor SCIF
$230k-$280k (Annually)* **The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and 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 law. www.akina-inc.com/careers