Senior Software Engineer (C/C++)

Required Minimum Qualifications

*** Bachelors and 14 yrs or Masters and 12 yrs or Phd and 9 years***

• Experience with C and C++.
• Experience with Linux or Windows.
• Experience in software engineering and development.
• Knowledgeable in version control software such as GIT.
• Knowledgeable in JIRA, Bitbucket and Confluence.
• Experience in the technical management of software engineers.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-starter and ability to work in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance
• Knowledge of computer architectures including multi-core environments.
• Familiarity with software applications requiring multi-threaded programming implementation.
• Complex programs that involved hardware, software, communications and networking.
• Existing secret clearance, or the ability to obtain an interim clearance within 180 days and full clearance thereafter.
• Experience with Object-Oriented Design Knowledge including UML.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform software development, debugging, modification, enhancement, and documentation.
• Design, test, and develop computer software in order to meet program requirements.
• Apply expertise in computing systems to define requirements and develop software designs recognizing limitations of target hardware platforms.
• Author technical reports and presentations for projects of moderate-to-high complexity.
• Compile report input from other researchers and prepare final report deliverables.
• Lead and/or contribute to white papers and proposals.
• Create and analyze network protocols.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Design, architect, and provide senior level support of high-security, sensitive, or classified systems.
• Serve as a resource and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for software engineering tools and technologies.
• Manage overall codebase, review code pull-requests, handle merging, perform code branch management, and provide feedback to team members to ensure sponsor requirements and code quality thresholds are being met.

Additional Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the development of complex software systems in multiple domains.
• Provides technical leadership to development teams -Organize developers to work on items in sprints, manage meetings, and run daily standups.
• Design, develop, and support creation, deployment, and maintenance of both on-premises and cloud-based solutions for various software stacks.
• Design, architect, and provide senior-level support of highly security-sensitive or classified systems.
• Serve as a resource and subject matter expert for software engineering tools and technologies.
• Serve as a resource and subject matter expert for DevOps solutions.
• Manage overall codebase, review code pull requests, handle merging, perform code branch management, and provide feedback to team members to ensure sponsor requirements and code quality thresholds are being met.
• Create level-of-effort (LOE) estimates for assigned tasks and communicate schedule updates to stakeholders.
• Create and maintain documentation for code and system components.
• Run live demonstrations to showcase implemented work to sponsors, answer their questions, and solicit and document feedback.
• Primary author of technical reports/presentations for projects of moderate/high complexity.
• Compile report input from other researchers and prepare final report deliverable.
• Lead and/or contribute to white papers and proposals.

Direct hire 170K+ dependent on years of experience and education.