Back End Engineer

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.

Hybrid: This role will require you to be on-site in our Irvine, CA office 2 days a week. Only local candidates should apply. 
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 - $130K
• 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, Java, GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis
• Frontend: Typescript and React
• Search and analytics: OpenSearch 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 is a leading provider of continuous intelligence software solutions that deliver efficient, rapid, and impactful decision support automation for government and commercial organizations - enabling our customers to expedite opportunity or get left of harm.

A highly scalable AI/ML peer technology, Cogility's Cogynt platform, offers unified, hierarchical Complex Event Processing that allows analysts to efficiently process massive, diverse, and complex signals of structured and unstructured data leveraging dynamic, no-code pattern modeling, and behavioral analytics to gain high-confidence, actionable decision results at machine speed with full determination traceability. This patented approach employs the capabilities of Apache Flink and Kafka wrapped in an extensible, enterprise-grade platform.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTS

The company currently has two distinguished solutions developed on its Cogynt platform. Cogility’s Continuous Insider Threat Intelligence solution allows government agencies to efficiently take a holistic-person approach to detect and respond to unwanted insider threat behavior based on technical and social indicators of risk in a single pane of glass. Cogility's TacitRed is a turnkey, SaaS solution that provides Active Attack Surface Intelligence – offering on-demand, curated threat intelligence that empowers security analysts to readily see and assess their and their business associates security risks and take immediate and decisive actions to mitigate impactful 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.