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Software Engineer Level 4

Base-2 Solutions Elkridge, MD

Elkridge, MD

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Full time Backend Developer Python APIs

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Job Description

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer Level 4 to build and improve complex software in mission-focused environments. This on-site role in Elkridge, MD emphasizes backend development, data engineering, and API development using Python and FastAPI, backed by PostgreSQL and high-performance integrations.

What you’ll gain

Competitive pay: fixed salary or hourly pay based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity.
Referral bonus: employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
Performance-based bonuses: additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).
Comprehensive health coverage: 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents, with plan options through CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare (PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans).
Dental and vision: 100% company-paid dental and vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
Disability and life insurance: 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability, long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance up to $200,000.
401(k): immediate vesting with 4% company match plus 4% non-elective contribution (8% total), with pre-tax and Roth options.
Time off: up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO) and 11 paid floating holidays.
Work schedule flexibility: flexible work schedules including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems, including processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems, based on documented requirements.
Provide input to component design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, plus requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to software components.
Design, implement, and integrate software applications, or perform software engineering tasks aligned to the development, integration, and production environment.
Use appropriate software engineering and design methodologies, and deliver engineering capabilities using industry standards and repeatable processes.
Mitigate risks and control costs and schedule variance while managing large-scale, integrated software projects.
Review and test software components for adherence to design requirements and document test results.

Requirements

Security clearance: Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph (Top Secret/SCI with CI Polygraph).
Backend development experience.
Data engineering and API development experience.
Experience building scalable systems with Python and FastAPI.
Experience designing and managing PostgreSQL databases, including efficient SQL and indexing strategies.
Proficiency in Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.
Proficiency in Elasticsearch.
Experience building high-performance API connections between high-speed, high-volume, mission-critical, data-sensitive systems.

Preferred qualifications

Experience supporting processing-intensive analytics environments.
Experience working with extremely large data sets.
Experience supporting real-time systems.
Experience contributing to software design decisions involving software reuse, COTS/GOTS, and system-to-component requirements analysis.

Minimum experience: 5 years. Education: PhD (education and experience equivalency also listed: High School/GED 13 years, Associate 11 years, Bachelor 9 years, Master 7 years, PhD 5 years).

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