{"id":1160833,"url":"https://alion.io/job/riverside-research-software-engineer","title":"Software Engineer","company":{"id":2113336,"name":"Riverside Research","domain":"riversideresearch.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/riversideresearch","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Riverside, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":118000,"max_usd":218000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1999},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Angular","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Bitbucket","optional":false},{"name":"Cassandra","optional":false},{"name":"Confluence","optional":false},{"name":"Dependency Injection","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Hadoop","optional":false},{"name":"HBase","optional":false},{"name":"Hibernate","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Kotlin","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"MinIO","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"MySQL","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Spring Framework","optional":false},{"name":"TensorFlow","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T23:45:34Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T02:45:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Riverside Overview\nRiverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country’s most challenging technical problems. All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.Position Overview\nRiverside Research is seeking a Software Engineer (Mid-level) with good experience to work in our Lexington, MA office. We are searching for a candidate that has worked in an environment with good software culture, promoting best practices and processes. We seek a motivated and collaborative employee who will be comfortable working within a cohesive software development team. This candidate will implement features and services in our software system, assist in the planning of designs, write code to fix bugs and expand functionality, and help to maintain a software system that includes multiple services, components, and clients, including a web application.\nResponsibilities\nSome level of participation in most parts of the software development life cycle, including providing input or review during feature conception and requirements generation as well as software architecture and design, implementation, build, deployment, testing, and support. \nAreas of focus may include some targeted areas of application architecture and software design, user-interface and experience , client-side and server-side development involving Spring, web application development, testing frameworks, and understanding and integrating with devops tools. \nCollaborate with project manager and other development team members to continue to support and develop a robust, high-quality software system that can be accessed on both desktop environments and web clients, with an eye for extensibility to leverage and display different types of data in the future. \nAbility to work directly with databases and other data stores in order to collect information and potentially perform certain levels of statistical analysis.\nSome interaction with stakeholders, customers, and users, or their capabilities and requirements documents, to understand operational strengths and weaknesses and help define roadmap and future focus areas for the software system.\nOn occasion, provide direct customer support and technical assistance to users of the software.\nOther duties as assigned\nQualifications\nRequired Qualitifactions\nActive DoD Secret Security Clearance\nKnowledge of current best principles, practices, and procedures for design, development, implementation, deployment, and testing with respect to modern software applications and servers.\nFive years of professional programming experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or three years with a Master’s Degree or equivalent work and professional experience that is documented and can be demonstrated.\nExperience with modern software technologies, architectures, and frameworks that are used in enterprise client-server stacks or web application stacks. Examples include: Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, Node, and Python.\nExposure to database technologies related to modern software application stacks. Examples include Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, and MongoDB.\nExperience user interface and user experience design and implementation.\nKnowledge of and exposure to designing, building, and implementing REST API endpoints according to well-defined best practices.\nExperience using AI code assist tools as part of modern software development best practices.\nStrong technical documentation skills.\nDemonstrated troubleshooting skills.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.\nDemonstrated desire to grow and learn new technologies.\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience and knowledge in the areas of dependency injection, software services, and componentization of designs.\nStrong experience in object-oriented design and implementation. \nStrong experience in functional programming design and implementation.\nUnderstanding of REST, web services, and web security. \nSome full stack development and architecture experience, including, but not limited to, web services, client-server communication, database modeling, microservices, user facing interfaces, and the frameworks related to these items.\nExposure or some experience with Docker, Kubernetes and containerization and DevOps/deployment concepts and tools in general.\nExposure or some experience with Angular framework and related JavaScript client-side libraries. \nExposure or some experience with Java, Spring framework, Kotlin, and related client and server-side libraries.\nExperience with different software development methodologies, including agile.\nExperience with the tools that are used for managing software lifecycle processes such as JIRA, Confluence, and Bamboo.\nExperience with source control systems, such as Git, and related tools such as BitBucket, Fisheye, and Crucible.\nSome experience with technologies like Cassandra, Kafka, Minio, Elasticsearch, HBase, Hadoop, Lucene, Python.\nExposure or knowledge of machine learning algorithms and tools such as naïve-bayes, decision trees, neural networks, and TensorFlow.\nFamiliarity with natural language processing libraries and tools.\nExposure or knowledge working with multiple LLM providers, both local and remote, and the APIs associated with multiple provider backends.\nOrganizational skills to make progress on multiple elements and complete tasks quickly within the constraints of clients’ timelines and budgets. \nGood data analysis skills. \nSome experience or exposure in the areas user interface and user experience design and implementation. \nSome experience or exposure in dealing directly with customers in a productive and iterative fashion.\nGlobal Comp\n125,000 - 175,000 This represents the typical compensation range for this position based on experience, location and other factors.Closing Statement\n Riverside Research Institute is a not-for-profit, technology-oriented defense company, where service to our customers and support of our staff is our overall mission. Riverside is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. Riverside offers comprehensive compensation and benefit packages to our employees. Riverside bases its employment decisions solely on technical experience, qualifications and other job-related criteria related to our organizational purpose as a not-for-profit company, and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran’s status or any other status legally protected by applicable federal, state, and local law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6838,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Science & Engineering"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T23:45:34Z"}],"liveness":{"score":95,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.946,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:2","urgency","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/riverside-research-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/riverside-research-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T07:56:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}