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

Min

USD $160,000.00/Yr.

Max

USD $210,000.00/Yr.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position represents Acuity's good faith estimate of the compensation for this job title at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, contract requirements, applicable labor categories, and, where applicable, contract award and funding.