Full Stack Software Engineer

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Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.
 
 
Headquartered in Washington, DC’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation’s most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us.
 

Barbaricum is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to contribute to the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) mission. CDAO is responsible for the acceleration of the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence to generate decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. CDAO is tasked with building a strong foundation for data, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to be developed and fielded at scale. This position will play a key role in the establishment of strategy, best practices, architectures, and tools to ensure that the DoD has reliable, ethical, and trusted AI-enabled systems.

Barbaricum has been supporting CDAO for more than 3 years, including current support to the T&E Directorate and Resource and Management Office. This position is a new role on a team that will provide SETA support to CDAO both enterprise-wide and within specific internal organizations.

Responsibilities

  • Designs and develops software requirements for multiple Artificial Intelligence based products including the software architectures, APIs, frameworks, and libraries.
  • Develops front end and backend of software prototypes, components, and tooling that can be leveraged to speed prototyping process.
  • Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
  • Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping of AI capabilities.
  • Works with data scientists, UX designers, cognitive scientists, developers, and testers to compose cohesive and sound software designs that form the basis of scalable AI solutions.
  • Documents requirements and specifications and reviews documentation provided by other teams and vendors.
  • Optimizes software designs and architectures to deliver desired performance targets and devises tooling and methodologies to profile execution and capture performance metrics.
  • Stays informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
  • Works closely with clients and requirements owners to build out product lines.
  • Develops plans, road maps, software design strategies. Analyze and decomposes activities and requirements to software designs that are allocated across systems components/sub-components.
  • Captures, develops, and reports reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.

Qualifications

  • Active DoD Secret Clearance required (TS and above desired)
  • Programming experience with Python, JavaScript, and at preferably one more programming language (Java is a plus)
  • Experience with front end frameworks like React or Vue
  • Experience with backend runtimes and frameworks like Node.js, Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, etc.
  • Experience with Agile software development methodologies and tools
  • Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services as well as front-end frameworks
  • DevSecOps experience a big plus
  • Strong communications skills; position will be required to proactively engage fellow CDAO members both inside and outside of the immediate team.
  • Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
  • Experience working on DoD SETA programs is desired
  • Experience working directly or indirectly with CDAO is a plus
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