Back End Engineer - Elixir Preferred

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Cogility Software is looking for an experienced Back End Engineer who wants to make an impact not only in the office, but in the world around them. We need talented developers to help shape the future of our products.  Expect to find great meaning in what you do, enjoy it, and be compensated competitively for your time and talents.

• Architect interfaces for customer use, focusing on solving complex problems.

• Design and build capabilities to enable users to visualize and interact with data for analytical purposes.

• Engage in all stages of the product development and deployment lifecycle, including idea generation, user interviews, planning, design, prototyping, execution, shipping, and iteration.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Contribute to the planning and execution of backend development tasks.

• Implement and maintain backend functionalities to support user-facing features.

• Collaborate with Front End Engineers and other team members to achieve seamless integration between frontend and backend components.

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain code quality standards. 

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

• Must have a minimum of 4+ years of work experience in a similar position or product development

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree or technical certification or equivalent work experience

• Ability to write clean, maintainable code

• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools

• Experience working with Phoenix & Elixir on the backend, but proficiency in Ruby, Clojure, or GO will also be considered

• Looking for experience in these areas: Redis, Postgres, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Elasticsearch

Real time data processing (bonus)

• Proficient experience using server APIs (GraphQL, REST etc)

• A good understanding of the software development process including development and deployment

• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection

• Eligibility for a TS/SCI security clearance

WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE

• Salary Range: $110K - $170K

• Company Equity

• 401k safe harbor match

• Generous medical, dental, vision plans, and FSA

• Vacation, sick, and paid holidays offered

• Job training, conferences, and time allotted for learning

• Promote from within

• Daily sync

• Casual environment

• Work with talented and collaborative co-workers

• Stand/ sit workstations & a game room 

• Kitchen stocked with snacks and drinks 

TECHNOLOGIES WE USE

• Hosting: AWS Cloud and AWS services (Server and Serverless)

• Backend: Elixir, NodeJS, GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis

• Frontend: Typescript and React

• Search and analytics: OpenSearch, Flink and Kafka

• Industry-standard build tooling and CI/CD: CodePipeline and GitHub

• Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus and Grafana.

• Code Quality: SonarQube and Playwright

• Project Management: Jira

• Containerization and Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes

• Infrastructure deployment and automation: Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Cogility’s unified real-time platform (URP), Cogynt, provides effective and rapid decision advantage for government and commercial organizations — allowing our customers to get left of harm or ahead of opportunity. A cloud-scalable, OSS-proven architecture, Cogynt integrates event streaming, behavioral analytics, no-code authoring, and investigative workflow technologies that enables organizations to efficiently deliver and enhance continuous intelligence (CI) applications with high-confidence, predictive and explainable insights required for automated decision support in highly complex, high consequence environments. To learn more, visit www.cogility.com.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTS

The company currently has two distinguished solutions developed on its Cogynt platform. Cogility’s Counter-Insider Threat solution allows government agencies to efficiently take a whole erson approach to detect and respond to insider risk based on technical and behavioral indicators of risk in a single pane of glass. Cogility's TacitRed is cyber SaaS solution that provides Tactical Attack Surface Intelligence – offering on-demand, fully curated threat intelligence that empowers security analysts to make prioritized, contextualized, and decisive actions to mitigate active cyber exposures.

Cogility recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.