Senior Software Engineer

Great software engineering is about more than writing code, it's about solving difficult problems, making smart technical decisions, and building capabilities people can depend on.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a key technical leader, shaping software architecture, solving complex engineering challenges, and helping drive the evolution of critical application capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment of a software application that supports the customer's GEOINT mission.
• Translate mission, systems, and technical requirements into scalable software solutions.
• Lead technical design for application components, services, APIs, and integrations.
• Develop and maintain high-quality production software.
• Design and implement scalable backend services and modern web applications.
• Evaluate architectural approaches and recommend solutions based on mission and technical requirements.
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs, microservices, and data services.
• Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and data-access strategies.
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, performance, and production issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant technical problems.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and system-level testing strategies.
• Support CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud, and containerized environments.
• Identify and address technical debt, reliability issues, scalability limitations, and security concerns.
• Serve as a Scrum Master for an Agile software development team, facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner with Product Owners and development team members to manage sprint priorities, remove impediments, and support the timely delivery of high-quality software capabilities.
• Promote Agile best practices, foster team collaboration, and drive continuous improvement in sprint execution, team efficiency, and software delivery.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.
• Collaborate closely with Test Engineering, DevSecOps, Systems Engineering, Security, and mission stakeholders.
• Support production releases and operational troubleshooting.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine their applicability to mission needs.
• Contribute to technical documentation, engineering standards, and development roadmaps.

Requirements:

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Proficiency with the following technologies:

+ Web: HTML, CSS, JSON, Ajax, and REST APIs + Object-oriented Programming: Python, Java, or JavaScript + Front-end and Back-end Frameworks: React, Angular, Vue.js, jQuery, Spring Boot, Django, Node.js, Flask, or Svelte + Cloud Development: AWS, Azure, or similar cloud platforms + Relational Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server + Operating System: Windows, Linux + Version Control System: Git

• Strong experience with software architecture and application design.
• Strong experience developing APIs, services, and/or distributed applications.
• Strong database development and data-modeling experience.
• Experience with modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production and integration issues.
• Experience serving as a Scrum Master or performing Scrum Master responsibilities within an Agile software development team.
• Demonstrated understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative software delivery.
• Experience using Agile project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to track sprint progress, manage work items, and support team collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) mission systems.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification.
• Experience balancing hands-on software engineering responsibilities with Scrum Master duties on a cross-functional Agile team.
• Experience using Agile metrics, including sprint velocity, burndown charts, and cycle time, to identify opportunities for improved team performance.
• Experience with geospatial, intelligence, or other mission-specific data and workflows.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Vault, or Keycloak.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and application performance management.