Senior Software Engineer

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Belay Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our intel team. Section 7 DAT is a forward deployed development team providing critical mission support to CNO. As a senior member of the team you will work closely with analysts and operators to plan and architect solutions to CNE problems. You’ll have the opportunity to work on every part of the CNE pipeline. You will sit next to operators to understand how they work and how you can support their workflows. Work with analysts to understand their data and build analytics so aid them in making decisions supporting national security. As a senior engineer you will work across multiple projects and provide guidance on frontend and backend design plans. Help the team and customer create robust solutions on everything from big data problems to web app data visualizations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop webapps to intuitively convey data and analysis.

Develop data transforms for every kind of data. (Text, JSON, Databases, XML, configs, etc.).

• Facilitate customer interactions to gather feature requests, new application requirements and understand project and customer needs.
• Work to gain a deep understanding of mission objectives and data to help analysts figure out what the right questions to ask are.
• Help maintain and architect existing and new applications and transforms to thoughtfully convey a better understanding of analytics and data.
• Manage and support mission critical servers supporting CNO projects directly working as a developer of server framework and sysadmin on servers when needed.

Candidates should have the following qualifications:

• Strong Experience Type script/java script and react or another modern frontend framework(Angular, Vue).
• Experience using python for application development, scripting and data manipulation.
• Knowledge of dataframes (pandas, polars).
• Comfortable with SQL as a language and experience with different database flavors (SQLite, Postgress, MySQL).
• Experience working directly with customers and collecting requirements.
• Understanding of git and gitlab for source control.

Candidates are desired to have the following skills:

• Experience with agency data processing and data storage.
• Experience developing using AI Agents.
• CNO Experience.
• DevOps CI/CD Experience.

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: $190,000 to $240,000

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.