Principal Software Developer

Job Description

Position Title: Principal Software Developer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Principal Software Developer opportunity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, document, and test software based on formally defined requirements and bug reports from the in-house user base,
• Design and implement refactorizations and maintenance to maximize near- and long-term productivity of users and developers,
• Identify and prioritize tasks without them being explicitly assigned to you,
• Support verification and validation efforts to prove that the codes meet specifications and are correct,
• Systematically identify performance or productivity bottlenecks; design and implement solutions to eliminate them,
• Perform administrative data management operations on the backend based on user and management needs,
• Understand and translate new feature requests into formal software requirements,
• Train and support reactor designers to use the software system,
• Provide mentoring to other developers,
• Support software build and testing systems (like our Jenkins instance and related dashboards),
• Support server configuration and maintenance needs,
• Facilitate design reviews for ongoing developments to keep review/approval process as productive as possible,
• Review proposed code changes and provide detailed feedback before allowing it to go live,
• Ensure compliance with quality standards and regulatory requirements for software.
  
  
  

Job Qualifications:

• 8 years of relevant experience on web application development,
• Expert-level programming skills in Python and JavaScript,
• 5 years in-depth experience and expertise with Django and DRF,
• 5 years in-depth experience with least one JavaScript framework like Vue3,
• 5 years regularly writing software tests,
• Expert capabilities with software development tools, including git, IDEs, profilers, debuggers, test frameworks, packaging tools,
• Please do not apply if you aren’t already comfortable interactively rebasing (or similar)
• Ability to focus and comfort with delivering a challenging project under evolving conditions, during rapid-paced development,
• Ability and professionalism to work within the robust regulatory environment of nuclear reactor design and construction,
• A strong commitment to software best practices,
• Good understanding of software quality assurance and the software development life cycle,
• Ability to provide and receive professional feedback.
  
  
  

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or similar,
• Expertise building and maintaining Linux application and database servers,
• Expertise in configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration systems
• Strong expertise in Vue3 and Quasar specifically,
• Expertise with celery
• Expertise with Cypress,
• Experience with major industrial construction projects,
• Experience working in NQA-1 environments,
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  
  
  

Job Details:

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Location: Bellevue, WA.
• Salary Range Level 12: $163,702 - $226,844
• Salary Range Level 13: $187,088 - $268,939
• Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status
  
  
  

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.