Software Engineer

Base-2 Solutions seeks a Software Engineer to develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems using documented requirements. The role covers design, coding, debugging, integration, testing, and documentation, with opportunities to support system design trade-offs and performance and functional standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
• Debug existing software and correct defects.
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments.
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.
• Recommend improvements to documentation and software development process standards.
• Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards.
• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
• Write or review software and system documentation.
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, coordinating with users or system engineers, analyzing systems flow and data usage, and investigating problem areas.
• Serve as a team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process used on a given project.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve performance.
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes.
• Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces and queries.
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure work is completed according to software development process constraints.
• Design or implement complex algorithms that meet strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints.
• Perform quality control on team products.
• Coordinate with system and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and identify project limitations, capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

Position Summary

The Software Engineer will develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems based on documented requirements. Work may be performed individually or as part of a team, including reviewing and testing software components for adherence to design requirements, documenting test results, and resolving software problem reports. The role uses appropriate software development and design methodologies and provides input to system design, including hardware and software trade-offs, software reuse, and requirements analysis from the system level to individual components.

Required Education and Experience

• Fourteen (14) years of experience as a Software Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of additional Software Engineer experience on projects with similar software processes may substitute for a bachelor’s degree.
• Required education and experience equivalency: Bachelor’s degree with 14 years as a Software Engineer, or no bachelor’s degree with 18 years as a Software Engineer (14 years plus 4 years additional experience substituting for degree).

Required Security Clearance

Active Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Technical Requirements

• Experience with Go, Python, Terraform, and AWS

Technology Stack

• Go
• Python
• Terraform
• AWS

Location and Work Details

• Location: Annapolis Junction, MD (On-Site)
• Shift: First
• U.S. Citizenship Required: Yes

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
• Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
• Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health Insurance

• 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• Multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
• 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

• 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D).
• 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

• 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Time Off and Schedule

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 paid floating holidays.
• Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).

Requisition Information

• Requisition ID: 4922
• Referral Eligibility: Eligible