812061 Software Engineer $260,000.00

Labor Category: Software Engineer
Position Title: Software Engineer
Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $260,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA

Description:

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

• Participate in all scrubs, sprint, planning and grooming sessions
• Consult and coordinate with stakeholders for problem resolution, task scheduling, resource needs, and task clarification.
• Work in partnership with an integrated team of staff and contractors.
• Coordinate and collaborate with security operations, engineering, testing, and other teams to provide system information and technical support.
• Understand and work within approved cloud environments – example, AWS
• Design develop and modify software systems
• Unit test software and perform code reviews.
• Design and implement scalable search and retrieval systems leveraging Elasticsearch.
• Develop an integrate LLM power capabilities, including Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Document and track vendor software roadmaps for software and patch version updates.

Details:

Labor Category: Software Engineer
Position Title: Software Engineer
Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $260,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Chantilly VA

Mandatory Requirements:

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)

• Demonstrated experience working in Lean Agile Development environment.
• Demonstrated experience translating customer and system requirements into actionable design specifications.
• Demonstrated experience designing system interfaces, including defining, integration points, data flows, and AI-assisted retrieval systems.
• Demonstrate experience building or integrating LL- based solutions, including RAG pipelines, semantic search and AI-assisted retrieval systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing data pipelines for hybrid search (BM 25+ vector search) in REG workflows, covering injection, chunking, embeddings, and vector retrieval.
• Demonstrated experience with Elasticsearch, included index design and optimization, query development, relevance tuning and cluster scaling.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in frontend Single Page Applications (SPA) development using React (hooks) HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript best practices.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in development, including designing and building RESTful APIs with Node.js or Express.jr (or comparable modern backend frameworks)
• Demonstrated hands-on experience troubleshooting web protocols and server technologies, including Apache Tomcat, Node.js, Web services, SSL/TLS security configurations.
• Demonstrated experience using modern testing platform such as Jest or Karma.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps tools including Git, Jenkins and Nexus.

Optional Requirements:

• Experience with the customers Lean Agile methodology
• Experience, evaluating, selecting, or integrating LLMs – example OpenAI, open-source models) into enterprise applications.
• Experience with vector databases, hybrid search (keyword + semantic), and relevance optimization.
• Experience with or exposure to RAG, LLM integration, or semantic search.
• Experience with Elasticsearch or similar search platforms, with some exposure to optimization or scaling.
• Experience measuring teams in search engine engineering AI/LLM best practices, with the demonstrated ability to improve overall team capability.

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations.  B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs.  B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package.  B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first.  B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation:

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement:

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
  –       100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
  –       Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance:

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus:

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO):

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

Internal Tracking -GV-2026-04843-1524-07-3044

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