Software Engineer 2

About the role

The Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements. They work individually or as part of a team, reviewing and testing software components, resolving software problem reports, utilizing software development and design methodologies, and providing input to system design.

Responsibilities

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Debug existing software and correct defects
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Write or review software and system documentation
• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
• Develop or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints
• Perform quality control on team products
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards

Requirements

• TS/SCI with agency appropriate polygraph
• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university
• Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree

Qualifications

• Python experience
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Containerization (K8s or AWS Elastic Container Service)
• Cloud native application deployment experience in AWS
• Agile lifecycle experience
• Experience deriving software requirements
• Collaborating on multi-team software projects

Skills

• Gitlab CI/CD pipeline automation
• Cloud architecture deployment (AWS architecture)
• Cloud stability, resilience, failover

Benefits

• Generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually
• Choice of medical plan options, some with HSA
• Vision and dental benefits
• Life and AD&D benefits
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance
• Optional identity theft and legal protection services
• Two complimentary branded clothing orders annually
• Automated contribution to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA

Pay

$64.04 - $120.27 an hour

Schedule

Varies

Benefits

• Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000
• Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts
• Variety of contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS
• Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party
• Complimentary branded clothing orders annually