Senior Software Engineer – Backend Focused

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a seasoned individual contributor within a team while enhancing leadership, guidance, and mentoring capabilities.

• Assist in defining scope, scheduling, and delivery requirements with minimal oversight from leadership.

• Contribute to the strategy for program development and its long-term objectives.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the discipline when collaborating with stakeholders.

• Propel enhancements in software engineering processes and practices.

• Take ownership of and contribute to the application codebase.

• Facilitate integration with related technical systems and ecosystems.

• Identify and resolve system issues, using incidents to guide system improvements.

• Provide mentorship and support to junior engineers.

• Effectively communicate technical challenges and developments to team members and clients.

• Engage in technical interviews.

• Suggest and assess solutions to technical and process-related challenges.

• Lead smaller, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects.

• Present design documents and system diagrams to clients, stakeholders, partners, and engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience in developing systems and applications for Federal clients.

• Experience in enterprise-level, high-availability application development.

• Proficient in using object-oriented design (OOD) patterns for concerns separation, code reusability, security, and performance.

• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as React.js, Angular, and Node.js.

• Proven experience in developing clean, well-architected code.

• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms, including Cloud Foundry, Azure, or AWS.

• Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools, such as Jenkins.

• Background in Source Control Management, preferably with Git/GitHub.

• Strong database skills, ideally with Oracle or SQL Server.

• Proficient in SQL or similar query languages and data formats like XML and JSON.

• Experience in developing or consuming Web Services, including REST, SOAP, and JSON.

• Familiarity with ETL jobs and APIs, including service-oriented architectures.

• Solid understanding of functional, SOA, and performance testing methodologies.

• Previous experience in government contracting is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible PTO.

• 401K with employer match.

• Paid parental leave after one year of service.

• Employee Assistance Program.