Senior Software Engineer

Location: Gaithersburg, MD onsite. Salary: USD 107,900 to 195,050 per year.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Chinook GEOINT program, you will deliver end to end software solutions within an Agile team focused on geospatial intelligence. The role emphasizes practical impact, collaboration, and robust engineering practices.

Benefits

• Health and wellness programs
• Income protection
• Paid leave
• Retirement

Responsibilities

• Address tasks as prioritized by the team product owner
• Engage in the complete software development lifecycle within well defined parameters
• Take ownership of delivering enhancements within a system or application
• Break down sizable tasks into manageable units for execution and provide LOE estimations
• Collaborate with fellow software engineers to create and document optimal technical designs
• Ensure team compliance with Agile processes and best practices
• Build software solutions where the solution is not clearly defined but always prioritizing customer needs
• Resolve obstacles for the development team, working with the Product Owner, technical leadership, and other engineers
• Ensure all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox

Requirements

• US citizenship is required per contract
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience, or Master’s with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience
• TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain a Polygraph
• Experience working as a Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team
• Web: Django, JQuery, Ajax, and REST APIs
• Object-oriented Programming: Python, Java, and JavaScript
• Relational Database: SQL/Postgres
• Operating System: Windows, Linux
• Version Control System: Git, GitLab
• Experience incorporating GEOINT domain understanding when troubleshooting, optimizing, and validating system behavior and data outputs across environments
• Deep understanding of modern software design patterns and coding standards
• Experience architecting, developing, and delivering complex software systems into production
• Working knowledge of Agile development and continuous integration/continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques

Technologies

• Django
• JQuery
• Ajax
• REST APIs
• Python
• Java
• JavaScript
• SQL
• Postgres
• Windows
• Linux
• Git
• GitLab
• REACT
• AWS
• IBM
• Google
• Azure
• Oracle
• S3
• SQS
• SNS
• EC2
• CloudFormation
• RDS
• AWS DevOps Engineer (certification)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with scripting languages such as REACT
• Software Architectures: Client-Server, Model-View-Controller
• Cloud exposure to multi-cloud architectures: AWS, IBM, Google, Azure, and Oracle
• Cloud exposure to specific AWS services: S3, SQS, SNS, EC2, CloudFormation and RDS
• Cloud certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer or similar