Software Engineer

XcelHR is recruiting a Full Stack Developer on behalf of government contracting client in the Northern Virginia area. This role will support a backend development team focused on middleware and backend services.

***This job requires an existing Top Secret Clearance and Polygraph***

Required Experience:

• Citizenship: Must Be a US Citizen
• Existing Clearance Required: Active Top Secret SCI with Poly
• Intermediate to Expert level experience in Solr or Elastic Search (minimum 3 years)
• • Performing schema updates
  • Possessing significant knowledge & experience in submitting Lucene queries
  • Possessing significant knowledge & experience on how Solr/Elastic shards work
  • Possessing significant experience tuning Solr/Elastic for performance and query optimization
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a big data environment using tools such as Hadoop, Pyspark, Spark, and Hbase (prefer at least two of the list)
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on, back-end Java development experience (not Javascript or Springboot) implementing code that undergoes code reviews, unit testing, integration testing and deployed to a production environment
• College degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree

Prefered Experience:

• Demonstrated experience working with several AWS services.
• Demonstrated experience with JIRA and GITHUB