Description: The Principal Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs; software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS; requirements analysis; and, synthesis from system level to individual software components.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
- Debug existing software and correct defects; Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance
- Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development processes
- Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
- Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products
- Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards; confer with users or system engineers; analyze systems flow, data usage, work processes; investigate problem areas
- Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
- Write or review software and system documentation; Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards
- Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components; Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
- Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations, capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
- Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
- Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used
Required Qualifications
- Fifteen (15) years experience as a Software Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university
- Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph
Desired Experience
- Full-stack Java development; JavaScript libraries such as Angular, React, Vue, Node.js
- COTS integration, including ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis; Kafka, Heron, JMS
- Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Maven, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Argo
- Design patterns, algorithm design leveraging Big O notation
- Agile Engineering, Kanban, Scrum, work estimation
