Principal Software Engineer - Full-stack application developement

Description

The company is an operating unit of the company Corporation and sits in Cincinnati, Ohio, within the Mission Systems sector.

The team builds new capabilities for military and intelligence customers around the world, working on cutting-edge technology and high-impact products.

Staff on site get to know one another while solving hard problems together.

The role is for a Principal Software Engineer who is self-motivated and energetic, with a background in computer engineering, computer science or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Join a team of software engineers building cloud-based, full-stack mission applications that affect national security.
• Create, evolve and maintain the software architecture across the front end, back end, data and cloud infrastructure.
• Own the architecture and design of advanced decision support systems and analytic services.
• Build microservices, APIs and data pipelines that turn data from many sources and sensors into useful insight.
• Develop web user interfaces that connect to backend processes and databases.
• Handle decision support processing and orchestration, and build and integrate algorithms such as optimization, analytics and automated reasoning.
• Evaluate commercial and government off-the-shelf products, including cloud services, in make-or-buy analyses.
• Fit custom analytic tools and decision support capabilities into the overall system and enterprise architecture.
• Deliver data products and knowledge services for dashboards, user interfaces, external systems and APIs.
• Take part in design, development, integration, testing, deployment and operation of cloud-based mission applications.
• Work with cloud services, containers and CI/CD in a live operational environment.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, with 5 years of programming experience; or a master's degree in one of those fields with 3 years of programming experience; or a PhD with 0 years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated experience building software in Python, C or C++.
• Demonstrated experience integrating commercial software products into a custom solution.
• Proven experience across the full software lifecycle, including operating and maintaining fielded systems.
• Experience leading development of a significant part of an application and mentoring more junior engineers.
• An active Top Secret clearance is required.
• US citizenship is required.
• Desired: solid understanding of modern cloud architectures, computer networking and optimization, modern development environments, cloud integration, and virtualized or containerized computing such as Docker or VMware.
• Plus: experience developing solutions with SysML or UML.
• Preferred: an active SCI security clearance.
• Preferred: an advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
• Preferred: experience developing software for US government classified environments.
• Preferred: hands-on experience building full-stack cloud solutions on AWS or Azure, such as microservices, serverless, containerized workloads and managed data services.
• Preferred: web development experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, React and Go.
• Preferred: experience integrating COTS or GOTS software tools into a deliverable product.
• Preferred: experience with Agile methodology.
• Preferred: experience developing software with UML or SysML in Cameo.
• Preferred: familiarity with source control platforms such as Git, GitHub and GitLab, and CI/CD workflows using Jenkins, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.

Conditions

A 9/80 work schedule is available: 9-hour days Monday through Thursday, with every other Friday off.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

A base salary range of $113,900.00 - $170,900.00 is a general guideline; the final offer depends on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus on top of base pay.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and let employees share in company results.
• Vice President and Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation or personal business.