<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require </strong><strong>U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.</strong></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Who we are:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Raft (<a class="theme markdown__link" href="https://teamraft.com/" target="_blank">https://TeamRaft.com</a>) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions. We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development. With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the role: </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You will be part of the team building a data focused product that is built on best of breed open source solutions like Kafka, Trino, DuckDB, and Superset. You will work both on backend and frontend to build end-to-end features that make interacting with data easier enabling users to be able to tell a data story through our product.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What we are looking for:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">4+ Years of experience building RESTFul APIs to take concept to implementation in one of the following languages: Go (preferred), Java, Python, Rust (nice to have), and Scala</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2+ Years of experience in frontend frameworks like React with a focus on Typescript or Javascript</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Deep design of software design and architecture</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to handle low-latency requirements</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with building and releasing software in cloud-native environments</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience using a variety of package managers/dependency managers including Maven, Gradle, and NPM</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including containerizing solutions and working with distributed clusters</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience working with AI coding assistants</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrated ability to take on large responsibilities and own complex work or project lifecycles</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="name" data-wfid="757db71e79a6:ac69c33edc14" data-parent="757db71e79a6:2225dabd8785"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">STEM Background or relevant industry experience</span></div> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-se