Applications Developer

Position Summary

Applications Developers build and maintain the DPL's application components and back-end services, turning Product Roadmap features into working software each sprint to keep MVP delivery on pace within the one-year base period. They implement the services behind rendering, search, entitlement enforcement, auditing and integration, all built against the standardized RIS GEOINT Product JSON contract.

Key Responsibilities

RIS integration services: Build microservices that consume RIS GEOINT Product JSON through the OrcSrvcs API, validate payloads against the published schema, and use version-aware adapters and automated contract tests so schema changes across UC, SC and TC are caught in the pipeline.

Rendering service: Build the service that generates current-template HTML at the time of access for each of the eleven approved product types, including template selection, embedded imagery (PNG/JPEG) and NGA Style Guide formatting.

Search services: Build APIs for spatial search (AOI, bounding box, geohash), temporal search (date-time range, recency) and metadata/text search. Integrate the Government-supplied LLM for natural-language query expansion and terminology resolution, making sure the LLM never performs retrieval.

Entitlements and audit: Integrate with GEOAxIS. Apply MLS, JEMS, role and attribute entitlements before any results or metadata are returned, and record every access decision and every search, view and feedback action in the audit log.

Enterprise integration: Expose RIS-derived content through the OrcSrvcs API to NGA Globe and other authorized consumers. Support integration with Atlas/Phoebe, GIMS, Orchestration and APS through the RIS data contract, and keep API documentation generated from code in OpenAPI format.

Performance and scalability: Build stateless, horizontally scalable containerized services on OpenShift with appropriate caching. Support load testing toward the sub-2-second response and 99.9% availability targets.

Quality: Write unit and integration tests that contribute to at least 90% meaningful coverage. Take part in peer code review, fix static analysis (SAST) findings, follow established design specifications and coding standards, and use only SWAP-approved components.

Documentation and support: Maintain software technical documentation and contribute to the SDD (A001), Installation and Configuration Artifacts (A002) and Software Sustainability Package (A004). Help prepare user and administrator documentation, support TAC IV&V defect work-off, and evaluate and integrate GOTS/COTS/FOSS components.

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Required Skills

Required Qualifications

4–8 years of software development experience; BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or 10–15 years of experience in the labor category.

Active TS/SCI clearance. Willing to take, or has already passed, a Counterintelligence-Scope Polygraph.

Proficiency in one or more server-side languages and frameworks (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, Python, Node.js/TypeScript or Go).

RESTful API design and development; JSON, JSON Schema and XML parsing and transformation.

Containerized microservice development and deployment (Docker/Podman, Kubernetes/OpenShift).

Git, GitLab CI/CD and automated testing frameworks; agile development using Jira.

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Desired Skills

Desired Qualifications

Development experience on NGA CORE, OrcSrvcs or AWS C2S.

Geospatial development libraries and standards (e.g., GeoJSON, PostGIS, GeoTools, Shapely, MGRS conversion) and search engines (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch).

Integrating AI/LLM services through APIs (e.g., NOMAD, Compass) in secure environments.

OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect, SAML and attribute-based access control implementation.

Experience with CPD/PDS FINTEL product packages (TAR, XML, HTML).

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Additional Details

Crimson Phoenix considers people our most important asset. Our goal is to attract, retain, and motivate exceptional individuals from every background who share our commitment to the customer, our passion for the mission, our delight for innovation, and our determination to achieve excellence in everything we do.

We offer phenomenal benefits to our employees, allowing them to focus on the mission, knowing that Crimson Phoenix is focused on them! Just some of the benefits we offer:

Dollar for dollar 6% 401k match, with immediate vestment

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Multiple Medical Plans from which you can choose.

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option

Vision / Dental

Paid for Short-term / Long-term Disability

Paid for Group Life Insurance

Employee recognition for anniversaries, birthdays, and customer kudos!

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We are a small, growth-oriented, federal contractor that delivers professional services in support of the Intelligence & Federal Community. Located outside of Washington D.C., we are a fast-paced group due to the customers’ diversity, types of projects, environments, and roles we support. To learn more, please visit https://crimsonphoenix.com/

Crimson Phoenix is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce.

It is the policy of Crimson Phoenix to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

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About Crimson Phoenix

Crimson Phoenix provides state of the art Information Technology & Intelligence solutions for the Federal Civilian Sector, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community. We specialize in Web Development, Graphic Design, Software Engineering, System Engineering, Training, Intelligence Analysis, Data Science, and Instructional Systems Design.