Software Engineer

TekWissen provides a unique portfolio of innovative capabilities that seamlessly combines clients insights, strategy, design, software engineering, and systems integration. www.tekwissen.com  The Cognitive Environment Laboratory team at the Research Center is seeking a software engineer to help design and implement the next generation of cognitive systems. Candidates are expected to possess significant expertise in the following areas: • web application and REST API design and implementation; • service-oriented distributed systems design and implementation; • use of noSQL databases (e.g. Mongo or similar); • use of pub-sub messaging systems; • node.js and (and general javascript) programming; • facility with one or more of the standard linux flavors (Ubuntu and RHEL in particular); and • a proven record of quickly developing well-structured code that contains very few bugs Additional capabilities that would be valued include familiarity with • agile coding practices • Swagger (for documenting APIs) • meteor and similar javascript-based frameworks • Python, Ruby, C++, and/or Matlab  • websphere and/or apache web servers • graph databases such as Titan (and the Gremlin language) • web sockets and streaming • big data analytics platforms (hadoop, etc.)