Senior Software Developer

Peraton

66d • $104,000 - $166,000

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Senior Software Developer with strong technical and team collaboration skills to help drive new product delivery as part of successful deployment of the Space Weather Analysis Forecasting Service (SWAFS)/ GovCloud solution. Candidate will act as primary point of contact for team consumption of technical requirements from Product-owner, Chief Systems Engineer, Software Developers, Engineers, and Architects. Join our dynamic team to Do the Can’t Be Done! The Senior Java Developer, in conjunction with assigned SCRUM Master, will build out the technical tasks, populate the SaFE/Agile backlog, and drive technical development parameters, code development and integration using established tools, techniques, processes, and define product delivery, expectations, or validate requirements. Works with Software/System Architects, Data/Space Scientists, Cyber-Security and other technical leads on establishing/adhering to industry coding standards and implements best practices. Participate in all phases of development from definition and design through implementation, unit test and code deployment.

Requirements

• Associates degree with minimum of 10 years' relevant experience; OR Bachelor’s degree with minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience; OR Master’s degree with 6 years’ relevant experience.
• Four (4) years of relevant experience can stand in place for equivalency in lieu of degree.
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Secret clearance with the ability to upgrade to Top Secret.
• Must be fully proficient with coding in JAVA.
• Proficient experience with SpringBoot.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD deployment process.
• Intermediate knowledge of AWS development environment, AWS Workspace and/or Coder.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Must be able to translate high-level engineering requirements (SW features) into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into tasks for the individual or team (stories).
• Must be able to decompose technical requirements into consumable stories / work packets or 'T-shirt sizes'.
• Intermediate knowledge of Git and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. GitLab a plus.
• Ability to provide customer-facing presentations of codebase, functionality, and/or improvements (under the hood).

Nice To Haves

• Prior Space Weather coding experience is desired.
• Familiarity in other languages, C, C#, C++, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and CSS are beneficial.
• Familiarity and experience with Apache Camel.
• Ideal developer is meticulous, thorough, able to accept/offer objective critique for one's own code and during peer reviews.
• Must be a self-starter! This position works collaboratively at times, or with minimum direction.
• Ability to be flexible, meet tight deadlines, pivot when priorities change, and project calm during stressful situations.
• Intermediate-level knowledge of AWS/C2S Cloud solutioning.
• Able to lead cross-team collaboration.
• Investigative skills to track and determine problems and perform root-cause analysis of code issues.
• Ability to capture knowledge and document processes, clearly, and concisely.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute meticulous unit tests to ensure quality of releasable software.
• Participate in peer code reviews.
• Assist in defining structured practices especially in source code management, build and release management.
• Participate in usability reviews and lead improvements in SW design.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the SW.
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Develop application code primarily in Java, with additional contributions in JavaScript, Python, C#, and C++.
• Collaborate closely with developers, testers, platform engineers, and software architects to build, maintain, and enhance codebases for both active development and deployed applications.

Benefits

• Fully comprehensive medical plans.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Tuition assistance.
• Fertility treatment.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees