Software Engineer

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 for adherence to the design requirements and documenting test results. They resolve software problem reports and utilize appropriate software development and design methodologies.

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
• Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Avoid or assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components
• Write or review software and system documentation
• Design, develop, and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
• Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries
• 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
• 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
• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering
• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance

Requirements

• TS/SCI with a Polygraph
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university
• Four (4) years of additional software engineering experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree
• Relevant JAVA programming experience to include at least two years of Java version 1.7+
• Spring and JavaScript
• JSP and servlet programming experience
• JEE and enterprise web application design and development
• Designing and writing REST-ful applications
• Ability to create and deploy applications in an Apache Tomcat web server
• JavaScript presentation libraries such as JQuery, Angular, and extJS
• Writing Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
• Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Programming on Linux platforms
• Using a revision control application such as: git, Subversion (SYN), CVS, ClearCase
• Generating and documenting design specifications of system-level components in a UML-based tool (e.g. Confluence/GIiffy)
• Test-driven development
• Oracle, PL/SQL, and/or mySQL experience
• Creating hierarchical deployments using Linux "yum" including resolving dependencies and creating and managing yum repositories

Qualifications

• Experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity at the following levels is required:
• Level 0: No demonstrated experience is required.
• Level 1: 7 years
• Level 2: 14 years
• Level 3: 20 years

Desired Experience and Qualifications

• Knowledge of virtualization
• MongoDB, Apache Camel
• Perl experience
• Creating deployment packages using RedHat Package Manager (RPM)
• Writing software that utilizes SNMP

Pay

ESTIMATED: $145,092 per year