Software Developer (Journeyman)

DecisionPoint | Cortek•Chicago, IL

2d•Remote

About The Position

DecisionPoint seeks ten Software Developers to develop, test, document, integrate, and maintain mission-critical software capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. Developers implement approved features, create and maintain tests, perform maintenance and defect corrections, and prepare technical documentation to support secure and reliable software delivery. The role works across the software-development lifecycle with senior developers, architects, requirements analysts, UI/UX specialists, testers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and Government stakeholders. Developers participate in Agile delivery and support software integration, demonstrations, testing, releases, and continuous improvement. The positions are remote; Chicago-area candidates are preferred. Applicants acknowledge and consent to having their resumes included in an active competitive government contract bid. An active Secret clearance or higher is required.

Requirements

Active Secret clearance or higher.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category.
At least six years of relevant professional experience.
Experience developing, testing, and maintaining software applications or systems.
Experience implementing application features from approved requirements, user stories, or technical designs.
Experience developing and maintaining unit tests.
Experience investigating and correcting software defects.
Experience performing software maintenance, updates, or component enhancements.
Experience preparing or maintaining technical software documentation.
Experience using version control and structured source-code management practices.
Ability to write secure, maintainable, and testable source code.
Ability to collaborate with developers, architects, analysts, testers, cybersecurity personnel, platform engineers, and Government stakeholders.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
Ability to work effectively in an Agile software-delivery environment and manage assigned work through completion.

Nice To Haves

Relevant software-development or cloud certification from AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Oracle, Red Hat, or another recognized provider.
Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs.
Experience developing mission-critical, regulated, security-sensitive, or high-availability applications.
Experience with modern development languages or platforms such as Java, C#, .NET, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, or comparable technologies.
Experience developing or integrating RESTful APIs, web services, or system interfaces.
Experience with relational databases, structured query languages, data-access frameworks, or data modeling.
Experience with automated testing frameworks and test-driven or behavior-driven development practices.
Experience with static-code analysis, dependency scanning, software-composition analysis, or other application-security tools.
Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevSecOps practices.
Experience with cloud services, containers, microservices, or modern application-platform technologies.
Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, or comparable development and collaboration tools.
Familiarity with DoD security requirements, DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, configuration management, and software-release controls.
Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements and accessible web-development practices.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, integrate, document, and maintain assigned software capabilities.
Implement application features based on approved requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs.
Develop software components, services, interfaces, and supporting application logic.
Write clean, secure, maintainable, and testable source code.
Develop and maintain unit, integration, regression, and other automated tests and quality checks.
Perform application maintenance, component updates, refactoring, and technical-debt reduction.
Investigate, reproduce, diagnose, and correct software defects; support root-cause analysis and implement durable corrective actions.
Assist with security remediation through approved source-code, dependency, configuration, or application changes.
Participate in peer reviews, code reviews, design discussions, and technical walkthroughs; incorporate feedback and comply with development standards.
Use approved version-control practices, including branches, commits, merges, pull requests, and release tagging.
Support continuous integration, automated builds, testing, and deployment.
Develop and maintain technical documentation, including code comments, interface and API descriptions, build instructions, installation procedures, and release information.
Support software integration and troubleshooting across application, database, interface, infrastructure, and cloud components.
Collaborate with requirements analysts to clarify requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Collaborate with testers to resolve defects and verify corrections.
Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel on identified vulnerabilities and secure-coding concerns.
Support Government demonstrations, user acceptance testing, operational validation, and stakeholder feedback.
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
Provide implementation estimates and identify technical dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, and impediments.
Maintain accurate work status, technical notes, and delivery information in approved Agile and collaboration tools.
Support deployment, release-readiness, and post-release validation activities.
Protect sensitive data and comply with applicable federal, DoD, security, privacy, and configuration-management requirements.
Participate in knowledge sharing, cross-training, and continuous improvement of development and testing practices.