Application Software Engineer

Leidos•San Diego, CA

About The Position

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for an Applications Software Engineer in our National Security Sector's (NSS) Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. The portfolio of products support the Cybersecurity and Information Assurance domains. These systems deploy a variety of technologies and communicate with infrastructure interfaces to bring secure, modern-day Cybersecurity and Cryptographic Key Management solutions to the warfighter.

Requirements

BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 4+ years of relevant experience. Will consider experience in lieu of a degree.
Active Secret Clearance (Required)
Experience with web-based (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) in a web-based environment
Experience in Scrum Methodology or other Agile environments (e.g., SAFe, XP)
Experience with UI / Development Frameworks (E.g, AngularJS, Ionic, GWT, SmartGWT, Qt, React, Node.js)
Experience with Automated Testing Tools/Technologies/Concepts (Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, BDD)
Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
Works well in a team environment and has excellent written and communication skills
DoD 8570 approved security certification (i.e., Security +) (Will be required 90 days after hire).

Nice To Haves

Experience with Web Services Architectures (REST, SOAP, AWS)
Experience with Software CM (e.g., Git, GitHub)
Experience with Continuous Integration / Quality, and DevOps concepts and tools / technologies (e.g., Ant / Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, FishEye, Crucible, Gradle, Junit)
Experience with Security Scanning (HP Fortify, HP WebInspect)
Experience with Build Scripts (e.g., Maven, ANT)
Experience with Mobile Application Development
Experience with Agile Management Tools and Concepts (e.g., VersionOne, JIRA, Rally, etc.)
Experience with Web Server Configuration (e.g., JBOSS, Wildfly, Tomcat)
Experience with Database Development (e.g., Postgres, SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle)

Responsibilities

Work on a mix of web service development, full stack web application development and robust persistence layer implementations in an Agile Scrum environment.
Use Themes, Epics, User Stories, acceptance criteria and other system engineering artifacts as part of an Agile team.
Use a variety of software engineering best practices and clean coding techniques to ensure that developed code is maintainable, efficient, reliable, understandable, secure, fault tolerant and meets S.O.L.I.D coding principles.
Apply secure software development principles and techniques.
Use software tools in cooperation with continuous integration and test automation management process and understand software components and their interface requirements.
Interface with software engineers, system engineers, information assurance engineers, test engineers, quality assurance, and other project team members.
Be responsible for setting the standards and helping the team adopt and adhere to Test Driven Development (TDD) practices within the Leidos Agile Framework to ensure the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks.