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Role Description

As a software engineer for GDMS, you’ll be a member of a cross-functional team responsible for performing software requirements analysis, leading research and design, and developing and testing software and tools. Your talent and leadership abilities will be front and center in inventing new products or enhancing existing applications.

• Perform software requirements analysis, participate in research, design, develop and test software and tools, including the development of new work products or enhancing existing applications.
• Perform technical planning, verification and validation of others' work, cost and risk analysis, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
• Apply appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products.
• Research and analyze data, such as customer design proposals, market trends, state of technology and industry, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application.
• Support and develop our technical culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, friendly, motivated to solve complex problems, and inspired to deliver superior user-centered design.
• Participate in internal reviews of software components and systems.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field.
• 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience.
• Agile experience preferred.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of work performed within our facilities.

Benefits

• An exciting career path with opportunities for continuous learning and development.
• Research-oriented work, alongside award-winning teams developing practical solutions for our nation’s security.
• Flexible schedules with every other Friday off work, if desired (9/80 schedule).
• Competitive benefits, including 401k matching, flex time off, paid parental leave, healthcare benefits, health & wellness programs, employee resource and social groups, and more.

Additional Key Skillsets

• Strong fundamentals in Computer Science theory (data structures, algorithms, and computational complexity).
• Solid object-oriented programming and software design skills.
• Proficient in one of the following: Java, C++, or JavaScript/TypeScript (using object-oriented techniques).
• Web Services knowledge such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Redux.
• Familiarity with multiple DevOps tool chains (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Ansible/Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Familiarity with cloud services and tooling (AWS).
• Experience leading software teams using Agile methodologies.
• Detailed and fully proficient knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements.
• Concurrent programming and building multi-threaded systems.
• Memory and CPU profiling.
• Data modeling and writing efficient data access methods.
• Experience building large-scale mission-critical applications.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Direct manipulation of user interfaces.
• Information visualization (charts, rendering maps).