People and Purpose. Not just paychecks.

Bitwise is a leading software and digital services company that provides mission-focused, transformative technology solutions to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Our team of engineers are driven by a sense of purpose, a thirst for technical excellence, and a culture of growth, wellness, and inclusion.
 

💡  About the Role

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join a team of highly technical engineers in support of our Mission Management capability.  You will act as a back-end software engineer, helping to design and develop an
entirely new graph analysis platform that is, for the very first time, allowing our mission customers to visualize, analyze, and traverse their expansive and complex mission data in a graph format and in near-real-time. This project offers a tremendous opportunity for junior engineers to learn from senior CNO software engineers while working independently to build a product that is transforming core customer workflows. You may be asked to speak with
analysts and operators to gain first-person insight into their missions, workflows, and perspectives, then utilize that knowledge to inform the platform's design. Core technical tasks include: REST API development in Java, working within Kafka streams to process and transform data, and general Java development to build and maintain the product.

💪🏼  Required Skills and Experience

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Technical Experience:
  • Contribute to the development of enterprise-grade software solutions.
  • Build and maintain Java-based REST APIs.
  • Adhere to leading design patterns to ensure the product's scalability and
    maintainability.
  •  Work regularly with stakeholders to understand the domain, elicit requirements, and
    devise solutions.
  •  Develop and optimize various extract/transform/load (ETL) services.
  • Become proficient with the project's graph database and develop complex database queries.
  • Experience using Java to build enterprise products and applications.
  •  Knowledge of streaming analytic platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark, etc.
  •  Familiarity with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) software patterns to ingest large and
    complex datasets.
  •  Familiarity with Git and GitLab CI/CD.
  •  Understanding of common Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) and how to apply them
• 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.
  •  Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations.
• Degree Requirements and Years Experience:
  • 7 years experience without a degree
  • 3 years experience with a degree in a technical discipline
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😇  About You

We only hire candidates who have the mindset and ideals to truly make a difference in our company and for our customers' missions. We ask that you be able to:

• Work well in a small- to medium-sized team and contribute meaningful thought leadership — if not right away, over time
• Interact with our customers in a way that fosters confidence in your abilities and an absolute delight to have you on board
• Apply an attention to detail to your work, even if that means managing expectations and taking a little more time
• Contribute your ideas, your ideals, and your personality to improve our company, our products, and our culture
• Know and support our core values every single day

🙌  Working at Bitwise

When you come to work with us, you can expect to hop in on the ground floor of our company, contributing your ideas, helping make decisions, and bringing your unique vibe to our culture. You won't be on an island with us – we gather frequently outside of work hours, from team-builds to happy hours and all-hands meetings. Everyone contributes, everyone's heard, everyone has fun, and we're all the better for it.

Our Benefits:

• Top salaries because we're top performers
• 4 weeks PTO – 5 weeks after 5 years, 6 weeks after 10 years
• 11 paid federal holidays
• 2 emergency days for snow, etc.
• 24% 401k contribution via a 400% match on the first 6% from you. Don't utilize the full match? Unused matches come back to you as income. C'mon now!
• 3 excellent health plans, 2 dental plans, and a vision plan, with up to 70% of the premium covered for you and your dependents
• 100% covered life and disability insurances
• $5,000 annual education assistance
• Bonuses for obtained certifications, customer recognition, and just about anything else that makes us go "Hot Damn! 🔥". We hope to say that many times about you.

🔍  What to expect after applying

You'll get an automated email from us right away just to let you know we got your application. From there, we'll:

• Send over some additional materials about our company and benefits for you to review
• Schedule a video call with you to discuss your application, our company, and your place in it
• Put together a delightful offer package and record a video walkthrough of it for you
• Keep the party going through the onboarding process. Your transition to us will be joyful and easy.