Software Engineer 2 - (JavaScript, TypeScript, React)

Clearance: TS/SCI w/ poly
Position ID: 20-2-005-SWE2
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Description:

Join CNO's Custom Media Operations team, winners of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board Killian Award for outstanding mission support. CMO is leading the charge on media capabilities in the IC. You will support the team in full-stack web development efforts that connect CMO's capabilities with their customers. This role offers hands-on experience developing solutions within the state-of-the-art AI/ML landscape. On this small team, you will manage products through their entire lifecycle—from initial ideation to full production—and take full ownership of their success.

• Builds and maintains full stack applications in collaboration with business leaders and AI/ML engineers providing custom media operations.
• Partners with AI/ML engineers, senior stakeholders, and business users to thoroughly understand complex operational challenges and translate those needs into robust, technical solutions.
• Rapidly prototypes and pilots complex, cutting-edge capabilities to meet customers' ever-evolving needs.
• Optimizes system usability and workflow efficiency by collaborating with end-users to define and refine ideal user interaction path that reduce mission operation friction.
• Cultivates an understanding of latest technological developments in the AI/ML landscape and seeks opportunities to operationalize them.

Position Required Skills:

• Proven ability to take a project from initial concept/scoping through iterative development, rigorous testing, and final deployment.
• Highly self-directed, with experience decomposing work into features and actions, with minimal oversight.
• Experience conducting direct user research, iterating on new capabilities based on user feedback, and solving real-world operational pain points.
• Extensive experience building applications in JavaScript including node.js, TypeScript, and UI frameworks/libraries such as React and Material UI.
• Experience with Linux, especially Ubuntu and Amazon Linux.
• Experience with Docker.
• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB.
• Experience managing CI/CD build pipelines within GitLab.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Java/Spring Boot and Python/Flask.
• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer, or general experience with managing software infrastructure in AWS .
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, or general experience with managing an application running on Kubernetes.
• Experience with multimedia and 3D modeling tools such Cinema4D, Blender, Unreal Engine, Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc.
• Basic literacy in AI and knowledge of ML process.
• Experience using code-assist tools such as OpenCode, Copilot, etc.

SWE2 Qualifications:

YOE Requirement: 8 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.

Salary Range: **$191k-$234k (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.

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