Software Engineer
Overview
Acuity, Inc. seeks dynamic, self-motivated individuals with experience as a Software Engineer supporting a backend development team focused on middleware and backend services.
Why Acuity?
We’re building more than careers—we’re building a place people genuinely love to work. At Acuity, you’ll get:
• Strong work-life balance and a people-first culture• Competitive compensation + Health/Dental/Vision coverage• 401(k) with company match• Up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications and up to $3,000 for degree seeking programs
🏆 Recognized as a Best Places to Work (Washington Business Journal, 8+ years)🏆 Named a Top Workplace by The Washington Post (2022–2025)
Ready to grow with a team that invests in you? Learn more: www.myacuity.com
Why Acuity?
Are you ready to use your expertise in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation to make a real difference? Join Acuity, Inc., a technology consulting firm that supports federal agencies. We combine industry partnerships and long-term federal experience with innovative technical leadership to support our customers’ critical missions.Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Performing schema updates.
- Possessing significant knowledge & experience in submitting Lucene queries.
- Possessing significant knowledge & experience on how Solr/Elastic shards work.
- Possessing significant experience tuning Solr/Elastic for performance and query optimization.
- Intermediate to Expert level experience in Solr or Elastic Search (minimum 3 years).
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a big data environment using tools such as Hadoop, Pyspark, Spark, and Hbase (prefer at least two of the list).
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on, back-end Java development experience (not Javascript or Springboot) implementing code that undergoes code reviews, unit testing, integration testing and deployed to a production environment.
- College degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree.
Preferred Skills:
- Demonstrated experience working with several AWS services.
- Demonstrated experience with JIRA and GITHUB.
Clearance Requirements:
- TS/SCI w/Poly