Software Development Engineer

MANTECH•Cape Canaveral, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

MANTECH is seeking a motivated, customer-oriented Software Development Engineer to support the 5th Space Launch Squadron at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The role focuses on software web applications, including maintaining, extending, rewriting, and creating applications accessible across multiple groups, bases, and domains. The work primarily involves complex projects that integrate multiple systems and spans all phases of the software lifecycle. The engineer will guide software engineering team priorities; lead requirements and feature discussions with customer technical teams; and build, maintain, update, and brief development plans and status using software development tools. The position also supports team-developed applications, designs and develops web or cloud-hosted applications, identifies opportunities to improve software development and enterprise processes, and administers applications, servers, and tools. The engineer develops and delivers user and leadership training, provides regular status updates to customer technical leads, participates in and leads agile methodologies, and contributes as an integral team member, including through individual and virtual pair programming.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline; 1.5 years of software development experience may be accepted in lieu of each year of education or degree requirement.
At least 8 years of experience as a software engineer, programmer, or software developer.
At least 3 years of DoD or Launch/Range experience.
Development experience with VueJS, GIT, JSON, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, asynchronous programming, UX design, C#, and database management, or equivalent.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
Able to remain stationary for 50% of the time.
Occasionally move around inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, and similar items.
Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
Frequently communicate with coworkers, management, and customers, including delivering presentations, and exchange accurate information in these situations.

Nice To Haves

CompTIA Security+ certification or ability to obtain certification.
Experience with CI/CD, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Visual Studio 2017 or later, Angular JS, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Identity Framework, .NET 4 or later, .NET Core 3.0, REST, Python, Flask, web services, Active Directory, VMware virtualization, virtualized architecture, SQL Server with SSRS, performance enhancement, backup/recovery, scheduled jobs, Power Automate, Jira, Confluence, Mattermost, website design and layout, digital tools and architectures, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analysis, Windows Server 2012 R2 or later administration, Windows Server 2022, Internet Information Server 7.5 or later, and familiarity with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station facilities, processes, providers, and operations.

Responsibilities

Maintain, extend, rewrite, or create web applications supporting the 5th Space Launch Squadron and accessible across multiple groups, bases, and domains.
Contribute to complex, multi-system projects through all phases of the software lifecycle.
Guide software engineering team priorities and lead requirements and feature discussions with customer technical teams.
Build, maintain, update, and brief development plans and status using software development tools.
Support team-developed applications and design and develop web or cloud-hosted applications.
Identify opportunities to improve software development processes and the enterprise processes supported by the applications.
Administer applications, servers, and tools.
Develop and deliver user and leadership training for existing or newly developed applications.
Provide regular status updates to customer technical leads.
Participate in and lead agile software development methodologies.
Contribute as an integral member of the software development team, including individual and virtual pair programming.