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?

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

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