Software Developer

Title

Software Developer

Location

Remote - EST or Central timezone

Target Start Date

January 4th

Type

(C, CTH, D) Contract wiht potential to roll perm

Pay Rate / Salary (Ranges OK)

$50/hr

Acuity is seeking a Software Developer to advance the automation and software capabilities supporting our Cybersecurity team. The team uses a variety of tools to help secure the company and the products we deliver to customers. As a developer for cybersecurity automation, you will take ownership of existing integrations and applications, maintain their reliability identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency and help develop agentic cyber solutions. You will collaborate with cybersecurity, software development teams, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into maintainable solutions, using spec-driven development and responsible agentic coding practices.

Primary Responsibilities

• Take ownership of existing cybersecurity automation, integrations, dashboards, and web applications, including ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation, and enhancements.
• Write efficient, reliable Node.js code for Azure Functions and develop event-driven workflows using Azure services.
• Apply human-led agentic coding practices: break work into bounded tasks, provide clear context and specifications, review proposed changes, and validate results through tests and security checks. Retain human accountability for design decisions and production changes.
• Integrate security and development tools through their APIs to collect and normalize data, create and update work items in various ticketing services (ADO Boards, Jira), and notify developers of security findings or misconfigurations.
• Develop dashboards and web applications that provide actionable cybersecurity metrics and reporting.
• Gather stakeholder requirements and use spec-driven development to define scope, interfaces, constraints, acceptance criteria, and test expectations before implementation; keep specifications aligned with delivered functionality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize an automation backlog and improve development, deployment, and operational workflows.

Required Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining software, integrating APIs, and working with cloud platforms and services.
• Ability to gather requirements from technical and non-technical stakeholders and translate them into clear specifications and working software.
• Knowledge of spec-driven development, including defining acceptance criteria and using tests to verify that implementations meet documented requirements.
• Knowledge of human–AI collaboration and agentic coding best practices, including task scoping, context management, human review checkpoints, permission boundaries, and independent validation of AI-generated changes.
• Understanding of secure development practices, version control, code review, automated testing, and responsible handling of credentials and sensitive data.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to independently own and improve an existing codebase.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions and document solutions clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Node.js and experience with MongoDB.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, particularly Azure Functions, Azure Queues, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Familiarity with APIs for Wiz, Blackduck, Azure DevOps, Jira, and Microsoft Graph.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s), containerized applications, and container orchestration; hands-on experience deploying or supporting Kubernetes workloads is a plus.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, including continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, environment configuration, observability, and deployment troubleshooting.
• Experience developing cybersecurity automation, security-tool integrations, or metrics dashboards.

Time Zone Preference

Preference for candidates located in, or able to maintain regular working-hour overlap with, the U.S. Eastern or Central time zones.