Lead Software Engineer – Contingent

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

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ARETUM

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Defense • Government

ARETUM is a leading government contracting company specializing in technology-enabled mission support services for the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and Federal-Civilian customers. ARETUM provides leading-edge solutions and services focusing on Next Generation Analytics, Engineering Services, Training Services, IT Services, Cyber Security, PMO Support, and Financial Consulting. The company supports federal government missions and initiatives globally and is a prime contractor on numerous contracts.

📋 Description

• Serve as the technical lead of an Agile scrum team on a three-week sprint cadence. • Lead design, development, and unit testing of Python and Django backend services. • Design and build REST APIs supporting ETL, metadata exchange, reporting, and digital content management. • Implement content identification and selection services with filtering rules and manual, scheduled, and event-driven triggers. • Build metadata management and transformation services, including normalization, schema validation, quality checks, and reconciliation. • Implement API integrations and secure content transfer with authentication, retries, monitoring, logging, and traceability. • Design relational data models and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and indexes. • Implement asynchronous processing, queueing, task orchestration, checkpointing, throttling, and idempotent retries. • Maintain and extend Java components. • Integrate malware scanning, checksum validation, quarantine handling, and content-routing services. • Implement workflow administration, approvals, escalations, permissions, queues, and audit logging. • Design and tune Solr and Elasticsearch search and indexing capabilities. • Operate AWS services and contribute to Terraform infrastructure-as-code and Docker deployments. • Maintain Jenkins and Git continuous integration pipelines, including automated testing and SonarQube quality stages. • Author unit tests and collaborate with government QA staff on acceptance, integration, and accessibility testing. • Support WCAG 2.1 accessibility remediation. • Participate in Agile ceremonies and record work in JIRA. • Mentor a mid-level developer and enforce coding standards. • Contribute to lifecycle, design, security, and authorization documentation. • Handle Controlled Unclassified Information within client-managed environments. • Support project closeout and transition activities.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience, including technical lead or senior developer experience on an Agile team. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent additional experience. • Ability to lead technical designs, conduct peer code reviews, and mentor mid-level developers. • Deep hands-on experience with production backend services and REST APIs in Python and Django. • Strong PostgreSQL experience, including data modeling, schema design, query optimization, and migrations. • Working proficiency in Java. • Hands-on experience with Solr and Elasticsearch, including index design and query tuning. • Experience designing microservices and REST APIs with authentication, authorization, versioning, validation, and error handling. • Experience building ETL or data integration pipelines with transformation, validation, reconciliation, and error recovery. • Hands-on AWS application development and deployment experience. • Working experience with Terraform infrastructure-as-code. • Experience maintaining Jenkins continuous integration pipelines and Git-based source control. • Working knowledge of content-addressable storage concepts and patterns. • Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. • Experience working in Agile and Scrum environments using JIRA and story-point estimation. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration in a fully remote setting. • Applicants must be U.S. citizens or currently authorized to work full-time in the United States. • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability Determination; sponsorship is not available.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) • Retirement Plan (401k) • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) • Paid Time Off • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity) • Short Term & Long-Term Disability • Training & Development