Software Engineer

Northstrat • Chantilly, VA

10h

About The Position

We are seeking Software Engineers to join a dynamic team supporting the development and delivery of a Major Systems Application (MSA) including the associated operations and maintenance (O&M) support to modernize space domain awareness (SDA) and flight safety tools. The modernization effort includes designing and developing containerized microservices within a modern AWS-based architecture. Engineers will work in an agile development environment, leveraging established development environments to build and maintain services running on a modern framework using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent field, or equivalent experience.
• Must have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering or software development for information technology systems
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages, including Java, JEE, C++, or Python
• Experience utilizing various libraries such as SpringBoot, Mockito, Lombok, OpenAPI (Swagger) and other similar libraries developing RESTful services
• Experience in working with microservices and containerization technologies
• Experience with supporting systems engineering efforts in system design, solution engineering, and software development
• Required in order to be considered an active or current Top-Secret clearance with SCI access (TS/SCI) and a polygraph (CIP)

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing software applications managed through Git and built using Gradle
• Experience with Kafka, MongoDB, ActiveMQ, Nifi, and/or other third-party tools
• Experience with integration and development tools for containerized applications deployed to a Kubernetes cluster using Helm Charts
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Linux OS and command line interface
• Security+ and/or DoD 8570 IAT Level II or above certification

Responsibilities

• Utilize best practices to support, plan and execute the program’s software development approach
• Support the software design, development, testing and performance analysis of the software services and system
• Develop capabilities supporting space domain awareness such as observation scoring using the developed scoring process
• truth” data generation using the developed fusion process
• development and integration of the scoring and fusion process into the overall system
• workflows to update the RSO database as a source of “truth” for use by the system

Benefits

• Individual Benefit Account (IBA) which places the power of choice in the hands of our greatest asset – the employee.
• The IBA can be used for such things as: paid time off, medical expenses, prescription drug expenses, cash disbursement, or a combination of any of these.
• IBA Benefits accrue each month in the amount equivalent to 50% of the employee’s monthly compensation rate.
• Profit Sharing Plan (PSP) is a qualified retirement plan that Northstrat funds quarterly on the employee’s behalf through the IBA in the amount equivalent to 25% (up to the IRS contribution limit) of the employee’s compensation.
• Lifelong Learning opportunities through periodic company sponsored training events, and the ability to use IBA funds for reimbursement of work-related education expenses.
• Employee referral incentives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees