Mid Level Software Engineer

Purpose and Impact

Our contract supports more than 12 efforts with varying levels of hardware and software development requirements. Our projects are focused on front end equipment configuration/maintenance, back-end repositories, front end dashboards, as well as everything in between for the full data processing thread. Our teams can range from one to two developers to a team of 12. All of our teams work right alongside our customer to discuss requirements, identify solutions, and choose the way forward for implementation. As part of an engineering office, our customer and our workforce look and plan for future expectations—continuously trying to stay ahead of the next challenge.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements.
• Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results.
• Solves software problem reports.
• Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.
• Provides specific inputs to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) in place of new development and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

Capabilities

• Analyzes user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Designs and codes new software or modifies existing software to add new features.
• Debugs existing software and corrects defects.
• Integrates existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Develops simple data queries for existing proposed databases or data repositories.
• Makes recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Develops or implements algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.
• Affords assistance with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
• Writes or reviews software and system documentation.
• Develops software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas.
• Modifies existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.
• Designs, develops and modifies software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Designs or implements complex database or data repository interfaces/queries.
• Serves as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development being used on any particular project.

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Seven or more years of relevant Java programming experience to include at least two years of Java 1.7+ and development of presentation tiers.
• One or more years of experience using Spring and JavaScript.
• Two or more years of JSP and servlet programming experience.
• Two or more years of JEE and enterprise web application design and development.
• Two or more years of experience with REST-ful applications.
• Ability to create and deploy applications in an Apache Tomcat web server.

Clearance Required

TS/SCI with Poly.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required.

Minimum Years of Experience

Seven (7) years of experience is required. Four additional years of experience are required if the candidate does not have a Bachelor's degree in a technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Experience with Microsoft Office Tools (word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Three or more years of experience programming in Linux platforms.
• Three or more years of experience using one or more of the following revision control applications: git, Subversion (SVN), CVS, ClearCase.
• Two or more years of experience generating and documenting design specifications of system-level components in a UML-based tool (e.g. Confluence/Gliffy).
• Two or more years of experience with test-driven development.
• Familiarity with Perl, Oracle, mySQL, and/or PL/SQL.

Other Responsibilities

• Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment.
• Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts.
• Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Compensation Details

$160,000 - $190,000

Benefits Overview

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Retailer benefits (including 401(k) matching).
• Educational reimbursement.
• Parental leave.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Tax-saving options.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Pet insurance.

Original Posting

06/10/2026 - Until Filled

Amentum

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