Senior Specialist, Software Engineering 1 1

About the role

L3Harris is seeking highly skilled and motivated software engineering professionals to work in a dynamic classified environment to implement core functionality to support customization and UI teams by creating modular and generic services and REST endpoints. Working with technical Leads (TL) and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to design and implement new features. This team is primarily responsible for Java code and the PostgreSQL database. Successful candidates will join a development team in Ground Software and Image Science discipline, directly supporting solutions developed by L3Harris’s Space Ground Solutions (SGS) Group.

Job Location: Rochester, NY; Chantilly, VA; Melbourne, FL

Responsibilities

• Maintain and add features to existing backend services.
• Design and implement new backend services.
• Maintain and create documentation about backend services and procedures.
• Participate in and host Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) with the functional team and stakeholders.
• Participate in pull-request based code review for own work and others.
• Provide daily status on work in the form of scrum updates and/or comments in JIRA/Bitbucket.
• Participate in software design, code reviews, testing, and configuration management processes.
• Ensure software solutions meet mission, security, and performance requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field and six years’ experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with Java, preferably Java 11 or newer.
• Experience writing unit tests, preferably JUnit and Mockito.
• Experience with SQL, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Linux.
• Experience with Java build tools, preferably Maven.
• Experience with GIT.
• Experience with Java IDEs, preferably Netbeans.
• Experience with collaboration software like Bitbucket or Gitlab.
• Must be able to collaboratively work in a pull-request environment.
• Experience with continuous integration (CI) software like Jenkins.
• Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI or SCI eligibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Java Enterprise development highly desired, preferably JBoss/Wildfly.
• Experience with RESTful services.
• Experience with message-driven beans.
• Experience with CDI.