What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Developer position at BlackFern Recruitment?
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Security clearance: Active Top Secret clearance required.
We are seeking a talented, tenacious, results driven individual to work in a multi-disciplinary R&D environment with likeminded motivated electrical engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists who are collectively responsible for creating custom geolocation and digital communications systems in support of national security defense.
Core responsibilities include creative problem solving, researching or inventing advanced geolocation algorithms, implementing them in efficient software, testing with real-world data, and deploying to front-line customer facilities.
Our dynamic environment and diverse projects demand flexibility to learn new technologies quickly.
Our personnel can expect to work across all functional areas: systems engineering, development, integration and test, deployment and O&M.
Core responsibilities include:
Design/architect, develop, test, deploy, and operate fully integrated software
Design, build, and maintain infrastructure for modern integration between our applications and third-party services
Collaborate extremely effectively with product managers, designers, other engineers, stakeholders, and vendors on projects within the team.
Communicate technical ideas and work closely with other senior members of the team.
You will also provide technical leadership and guidance to junior team members and mentor others to grow in their technical abilities.
A key responsibility is staying up-to-date with the latest technologies, tools, and methodologies and experimenting with new technologies to incorporate innovative solutions into our projects.
Our personnel can expect to work across all functional areas: systems engineering, development, integration and test, deployment and O&M, and experience the direct mission feedback from the customer and seeing your project provide real-world contributions that make a significant difference.
You re encouraged and expected to propose things that you believe will improve the applications and frameworks you re working in.
The ability to work unsupervised with minimal direction and the ability to self-start is a must.
What required background will make you successful?
Expert knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and modern design patterns and data layers
Expert knowledge of Golang
Passion to build internal solutions and own development of enterprise-wide applications
Extensive knowledge of building quality APIs for internal and external products
Extensive experience integrating internal and third-party services into your solution
Highly proficient in modern software engineering practices for testability and readability
Demonstrated ability to design the architecture of software systems to ensure they achieve functionality, performance, scalability, and maintainability requirements
Degree (Bachelor s, Master s, or PhD) in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
Minimum 15 years experience in software engineering-related discipline
Active TS/SCI security clearance
Preferred skills:
Experience providing technical leadership and guidance to junior team member and mentoring other engineers to grow in their technical abilities
Highly proficient in C and Python for engineering and scientific applications in LINUX environments
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Knowledge of Javascript and web technologies such as VueJS or React
Experience automating workflows across the enterprise
DevOps and Cloud computing Experience (Gitlab, CI/CD, CVE mitigations, Docker, Kubernetes, PIP)
Agile development processes and leadership
