Software Engineer (Backend Focus)
Location: Columbia, MD or Annapolis Junction, MD
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
Compensation Range: $170,000 - $260,000

Intezra Inc. is a highly technical start-up that specializes in cyber development and engineering from tactical-level tools and capabilities to enterprise-level infrastructure and operations. Our leadership team and staff have helped solve the most complex challenges for our clients most critical missions for over 15 years.

Intezra, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer (Backend Focus). You will act as a senior back-end software engineer, helping to design and develop an entirely new graph analysis platform that – for the very first time – will allow our mission customers to visualize, analyze, and traverse their expansive and complex mission data in a graph format and in near-real-time. This is an ambitious, high-visibility project with a tremendous opportunity to transform core customer workflows; performance, usability, and scalability are key project goals. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect complex, enterprise-grade software solutions for a streaming analytic app that uses Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
• Work with another senior back-end engineer to support the project's containerized environments in both Docker and Kubernetes.
• Utilize Java and Spring Boot while applying leading design patterns to ensure the products scalability and maintainability.
• Develop and optimize various streaming analytics to transform and analyze data in a performant way.
• Become proficient with the project's Neo4j graph database; develop, optimize, and troubleshoot graph queries.

Skills Requirements:

• Expert with Java and Spring Boot; proficient using them to build enterprise scale applications.
• Experience building real-time data processing applications using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams.
• Understanding of common Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and how to apply them.
• Experience with service containerization and deployment using Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) software patterns to ingest large and complex datasets.
• Familiarity with Git and GitLab CI/CD.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j.
• Experience building real-time data processing applications using streaming libraries like Kafka Streams.
• Experience modeling data and relationships in graph databases.
• Experience with networking concepts, protocols, and analysis (routers, switches, etc.).
• Knowledge of SIGINT collection and analysis systems.

Benefits Overview:
At Intezra, Inc., we offer a well rounded benefits package to give our employees peace of mind and freedom of choice.

• Three Carefirst medical plans available. Intezra pays up to 100% healthcare premium and up to 100% of the deductible amount depending on plan selection for employee and their dependents.
• Intezra pays 100% for Carefirst Dental and Vision plans for employees and their dependents
• 401k: 15% company contribution (no match required)
• PTO 160 hours, increases with seniority
• 12 Floating Holidays
• 4 Code Red Days

Salary at Intezra is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $170,000 to $260,000 (annualized USD).

EEO Statement:
Intezra Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.