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    Mission Focus &amp; The Institute for Modern Intelligence
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    Hiring professional Software Engineers in Alexandria, VA
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    We:
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    <li>Are a small but mighty band of head-in-the-clouds, feet-in-the-dirt, software engineers
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    <li>Employ an agile, test-driven development methodology, with no bureaucratic nonsense
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    <li>Avoid crunch-time by managing ourselves well
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    <li>Are building something big and exciting
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    You:
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    <li>Work hard and get things done
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    <li>Dream in code, think in abstractions, draw in UML, speak in design patterns
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    <li>Are ready to learn stuff you don’t already know, and teach us stuff we don’t already know
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    <li>Want to write code that will open a door to new science
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    Responsibilities:
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    <li>Think deeply while crafting clean code that works
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    <li>Produce concise documentation and useful UML diagrams
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    <li>Distill dense technical documentation into useful knowledge
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    <li>Grow with the team and achieve your full potential
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    Requirements:
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    <li>U.S. citizen with existing security clearance or clearable
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    <li>Work on-site with the team in Old Town Alexandria
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    <li>Solid Java / curly-bracket-language software development experience
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    Desirable Experience:
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    <li>Lisp, Clojure, Compojure
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    <li>CSS, Javascript, Ember
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    <li>User interface design, information visualization
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    <li>Unix / Linux and shell scripting
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    <li>Source control and continuous integration technologies
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    <li>NoSQL compute and storage technologies
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    <li>Natural language / image / motion imagery processing
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    <li>Semiotics, knowledge representation, data modeling, semantic technologies
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    <li>Advanced mathematics, statistical inference, artificial intelligence &nbsp;
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    <strong>Non-coding architects, managers, and business development types need not apply</strong>
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    Contact: Andrew Eick: <a href="mailto:Careers@MissionFocus.com">Careers@MissionFocus.com</a>
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    About MissionFocus
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    MissionFocus is an agile development shop that takes domain design and development as seriously as system design and development. We work mostly in the Intelligence arena with DoD and IC customers in close partnership with the Institute for Modern Intelligence. Our core domain is the storage, processing, and utilization of data in the context of immense scale and diversity. We are experts in cloud compute and storage technology and invented the Sign Representation Framework which underpins a game-changing approach to data unification. We pride ourselves on our disciplined engineering practices and distinguish ourselves by our ability to continually learn and innovate. The work we do is meaningful and intentional and is wrapped with our integrity. We are driven to think harder and work better than the rest because we believe the code we are writing will change the world!
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<div class="dir--desktop"><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/7Wegk">100 Daingerfield Road, Suite 400, Alexandria, VA 22314</a> <em>|</em> Phone: 703.291.6720 <em>|</em> Fax: 703.763.726</div>

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