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Senior Software Engineer

Ztek Consulting Inc

 

McLean, VA, USA

Posted On: 30+ days ago
Experience: 12+ years
Availability: Onsite
Openings: 1
Category: Senior Software Engineer
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

Design build and own endtoend software solutions across the full development lifecycle  from architecture to production
Develop scalable backend systems and data pipelines using Scala
Serve as an internal enabler of AIled development  onboarding the team onto agentic tools like Claude Cursor Windsurf
Identify and drive productivity acceleration opportunities across the engineering team using AI coding workflows
Mentor engineers and set best practices for AI augmented software delivery
Collaborate with product and application teams to ship high quality features iteratively

What we are looking for

Experience background
8-12 years of end-to-end software development experience covering design build test deploy and operate
Proven track record of delivering production grade systems at scale ideally across multiple domains or industries
Experience working in Agile Scrum environments with cross functional teams
Comfortable owning technical decisions independently and presenting solutions to engineering leadership

Engineering depth
5 years of Handson Scala development  strong grasp of functional programming type systems and the JVM ecosystem
Solid understanding of distributed systems system design and software architecture patterns microservices event driven CQRS
Experience with test-driven development TDD code review practices and CICD pipelines
Familiarity with data modelling ETLELT pipelines and working with largescale datasets

AI tooling  productivity
Handson experience using Claude Anthropic for AI assisted development code generation and problem-solving
Ability to evaluate adopt and champion emerging AI coding tools as the landscape evolves
Experience measuring and articulating productivity gains from AI tooling adoption across a team

Leadership enablement
Demonstrated ability to mentor and upskill engineers at junior and mid levels
Passionate about building a culture of continuous learning and AI augmented development
Strong communication skills  able to translate technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders


Technical skills
Languages  frameworks
Scala Akka Cats Cats Effect ZIO Play Framework SBT
SQL advanced query writing query optimization schema design

AI LLM tooling
Claude Anthropic API prompt engineering API integration agentic workflows
Cursor AI native IDE multifile editing agent mode
Windsurf Cascade agentic workflows AI driven code navigation
LLM application development Lang Chain Llama Index RAG pipelines vector databases Pinecone
Weaviate vector
Familiarity with OpenAI Gemini or other LLM provider APIs

Cloud infrastructure
Cloud platforms AWS S3 EC2 ECS Lambda Kinesis RDS GCP or Azure
Containerization Docker Kubernetes Helm
CICD GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI ArgoCD
Infrastructure as Code Terraform Pulumi

Observability quality
Monitoring and logging Datadog Grafana Prometheus ELK Stack
Testing unit integration contract testing Scala Test containers
Code quality  SonarQube linting static analysis


 

Education

Bachelor's degree

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