Superb BackEnd Software Engineer (2+ years - Senior Level)

Arlington / Reston, VA
Full Time
Entry Level

Black Cape 

Title: BackEnd Software Engineer (2+ years - Senior Level)

Locations: Arlington, VA, Reston, VA and areas throughout the DMV area

Clearance: MUST have an Active Top Secret of TS/SCI clearance

***MUST HAVE an Active Top Secret OR Top Secret SCI Clearance****

***If you do NOT have a US Citizenship and an Active Security Clearance issued by a US Government Customer, we will likely not get back to you. It is a REQUIREMENT of the job.***

Black Cape has Won “Best Places to Work” every year in existence by either the Washington Business Journal & Virginia’s Best Places to Work!

Want to be a part of an intelligent, talented, dynamic, and FUN team and keep building something GREAT?? Then, you should consider Black Cape!

  • We work with Department of Defense (DoW) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers to accomplish their missions
  • Come join us to work on cloud-native full-stack web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and machine learning capabilities
  • Be a part of a team that is making an impact and HAVE FUN while doing so!

About the company

Black Cape is a unique technology company with a focus on full-stack web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and integrating AI/ML capabilities for federal government customers. We are a COOL and FUN crew that works hard and plays maybe even a little harder. Our core team is an impressive group of engineers with exceptional leadership at the helm.

Black Cape is led by proven business and engineering leaders with a track record of building innovative technology companies focused on building mission applications. We support many programs and agencies as both a prime and a subcontractor and created a strong reputation working with top tier partners doing work for all major Intelligence Community agencies, DoW, and Special Operations customers.

Our engineer-led software teams develop technical solutions on an aggressive schedule across the DoW and IC to meet customer needs. Our engineers apply proven, repeatable software, technical, and analytical approaches to build solutions and have frequent interaction with end users to produce and deploy solutions.

We bring experience in building, integrating and deploying AI/ML solutions using Google TensorFlow, Python scikit-learn, and other tools. Black Cape’s approach to solution development combines lessons learned from developing and deploying applications to customer cloud environments with industry best practices in Agile development and DevOps.

What we are hiring:

  • Exceptional Full Stack engineering experts from diverse technical and experience backgrounds!
  • We are expanding and need to hire motivated engineers to help build innovative solutions for our customers. The ideal candidate needs limited direction and is passionate about technology. A willingness and desire to learn new technologies or languages quickly is a must.
  • We are considering Junior to Senior Level software engineers (Minimum of 1.5 Years of Professional experience)
  • We are always looking for the RIGHT, cutting-edge technologies to use for our projects to deliver the greatest value to our customers. Check out some tech stacks that we use that you could learn!

Required Technical Skills (MUST HAVES):

  • Proficient with at least one core coding language such as Python, Java, JavaScript, Golang or other
  • Proficient with developing open standard APIs (i.e. REST or GraphQL) using a framework such as FastAPI, SpringBoot, or other framework
  • Proficient with at least one databases, such as PostgresQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, or other data storage tools
  • Experience with Linux based distros, such as Debian, RedHat, or Alpine
  • Experience with SDLC tools, such as JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub, and BitBucket
  • Experience with Docker-based development and containerization
  • Aptitude for learning new technologies, tools, and processes, with a proven history of picking up new skills as project needs evolve
  • Experience working in classified government environments or willingness to work at classified government sites as needed
  • Experience developing on MacOSX, Windows, or Linux

Preferred Technical Skills (NICE TO HAVES):

  • Testing libraries such as Pytest, JUnit, or others
  • CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
  • Deployment tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, or Ansible
  • Data processing tools such as Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Redis, or Celery
  • Experience with server configuration such as of NGINX, Apache, HAProxy, Traefik or similar 
  • CompTIA Security+ certification 
  • Machine learning tools such as pytorch, transformers, and CoreNLP
  • Dependency management  tools such as poetry, uv, Pipenv, or maven
  • Large language models (LLMs) and servers, such as Ollama, Llama.cpp, and vLLM

Great Benefits | 401K | Competitive Salary | Generous Time Off | Exceptional Team-Building & Fun Company Events | Mentorship & Professional Development Programs | Tuition Reimbursement 

CONTACT: [email protected] to learn MORE!!

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