Senior Back End Software Developer
Nou Systems Inc•Huntsville, AL
•Onsite
About The Position
nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is seeking a Senior Back End Software Developer to join their Technical Solutions Division and JSTC2 Team in Huntsville, Alabama. This role involves building software that provides warfighting training exercise participants with unparalleled access to information about unfolding scenarios. The team is modernizing the interface to underlying warfighting simulations and finding innovative ways to surface deep scenario information, ensuring end users receive the right information at the right time. The company is a 100% ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) company that values teamwork and collaboration, transforming defense systems with data-driven insights.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field, or Bachelor’s in those fields plus 4 years of experience above the baseline required qualification.
- 6+ years of full-time professional experience in software development.
- 2+ years in technical leadership roles.
- Must possess or be able to obtain an active Secret Security Clearance.
- U.S. Citizen.
- Software development in Go and Python (with some C++) as an individual contributor without agentic coding support.
- Production code: modular, unit tested, supports integration and end-to-end testing, maintained in source control (Git + GitLab).
- Scrum Agile software development, including being active in ceremonies (standup, sprint reviews, Product Increment planning).
- Team-focused development: ticket management, constructive peer reviews, backlog management.
- Mentor and lead technical contributors: be a force multiplier.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills: communicate technical decisions, back them up with quantitative information, and flex with the needs of the wider team and project when necessary.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with distributed simulation systems, especially Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) messaging.
- Experience with cloud-ready microservice architecture, including MQTT communication protocol.
- Comfortable developing in a containerized (Docker) Linux-based (Ubuntu) environment.
- Experience developing for a Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipeline.
- Experience with databases (PostgreSQL) and database optimization (indexing, stored procedures, query tuning, data partitioning, normalization/denormalization, table optimization).
- Active Top Secret clearance.
Responsibilities
- Accelerate progress on a years-long product roadmap for Government Off-the-Shelf software used in ongoing warfighting exercises.
- Be an integral part of a multidisciplinary software team developing a web-based front end, large-data-management back end, and on-prem LLM-powered data exploration.
- Code while taking advantage of newer agentic coding approaches.
- Help junior developers level up their skills through mentoring and focused code reviews.
- Work in tandem with other talented developers, architects, QA, and integration/DevOps.
- Embrace team communication and cohesion in an Agile/SAFe team.
- Be passionate about the quality of software delivered.
- Develop software delivered to end users on a 10-week cadence.
- Help elicit end user needs rather than being handed a pile of DOORS-managed requirements.
- Scope work even in the absence of perfect information.
- Support software architecture development and contribute to the product’s overall structure.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and help intelligently use new libraries, languages, software, architectures, and tools such as agentic coding.
Benefits
- Competitive Wages
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Medical plan with Health Savings Account eligibility
- Generous company-funded Basic Life Insurance
- Company-funded Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Optional Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
- Personal Time Off, Annual Leave, and Paid Federal Holidays
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Tuition Reimbursement for ongoing training, continuing education, or advanced degree programs
- Personal Development, Learning Opportunities, & Lunch-n-Learns
- Opportunities for Advancement
- Skills Development & Certifications
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
