Senior Software Engineer (Sign-On Bonus Eligible)

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. This position is for a software development team that works directly with hardware design engineers, mission capability customers, and field engineers to deliver an application that is focused on meeting that missions needs.

Essential Responsibilities

• Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information 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.
• Aids in 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.
• Oversees one or more software development teams and ensures the work in completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Performs quality control on team products.
• Convenes software system installation and monitors equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.
• Implements recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Three plus years of C++ experience.
• Ten or more years of relevant Java programming experience to include at least two years of Java 1.7+ and development of presentation tiers.
• Two or more years of experience using Spring and JavaScript.
• Five or more years of JSP and servlet programming experience.
• Five or more years of experience with JEE and enterprise web application design and development.
• Five or more years of experience designing and writing REST-ful applications.
• One or more years experience using Javascript presentation libraries such as Jquery, Angular, and EXTJS.
• One or more years of MongoDB, Apache Camel desired.

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

• Fourteen (14) 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 with Docker, Maven, Gitlab, CI/CD processes.

Benefits Overview

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

Note

• Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements.
• Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.

Original Posting

07/21/2026 - Until Filled

Amentum

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