Description
Ready for your next career step? We are seeking a talented Software Engineer SME with 12+ years hands-on experience to join our dynamic team in Omaha, NE. This opportunity will provide professional growth that is singularly focused on providing world class solutions to our customers in an exciting, collaborative, and inclusive environment. You will be challenged and provided a tremendous opportunity to expand your skills in a customer-facing, fast-paced, and rewarding environment.
As a leader, you will architect, design, build, and enhance highly available and scalable systems used by customers worldwide. You will help lead a team of other technical personnel to direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, and unit testing. Additionally, you will determine and recommend the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines and other resource constraints. In this role, there is the potential to support multiple contracts to help provide growth and broadening opportunities within Leidos. Most of the work will be on site in Leidos' facility in Omaha, Nebraska. Some level of remote/work from home is possible.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead or directly contribute to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, and automated testing within an Agile and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery model.
- Provide direct contributions to the technical and operational direction of the program to government and Leidos leadership.
- Have regular customer interface acting as representative of the APS team at a high level.
- Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application and serve as a technical lead on medium to large, complex projects.
- Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical software source code using modern software development languages and tools, such as java.
- Implement Agile development tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket/Git to manage work and collaborate with your teams.
- Create and update relevant documentation and specifications for design, development, and testing.
- Identify potential roadblocks and develop around them.
- Plan and estimate development tasks and work to improve performance metrics.
- Develop and execute maintainable code that matches specification.
- Develop automated tests leveraging a continuous integration process.
- Own delivery of small parts of a system or application.
- Work closely with other engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Build software solutions where the solution is not always well defined but always considers the customer first.
- Mentor junior developers and interns.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 12+ years of related experience. Experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
- US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance.
- Experience managing a team.
- Skillful with (ES6+) JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 broadly.
- Specific skills in the following client technologies preferred:
- Modern React
- Tanstack Query/ReactQuery
- StyleComponents
- Playbook
- CesiumJS
- TypeScript
- Abilities with front-end unit testing tools like Jasmine, Sinon, Jest/Vitest, and Mocha.
- Proficiency with NodeJS build tools, libraries, and backends.
- Experience with Java.
- Familiar with containerization (Docker/Podman).
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Good understanding CI/CD pipelines & devops. Specific knowledge of Jenkins, Gitlab preferred.
- Familiar with frontend development environments and toolsets like Vite, Webpack, and Yarn.
- Ability to complete tasking independently with minimal direct supervision.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience with USSTRATCOM Nuclear Planning process.
- Extensive experience with the use of the Air Vehicle Planning System (APS) for mission planning.
- Secret clearance or greater based on a Special Background Investigation and be eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Nuclear Command and Control (NC2) and Special Access Program (SAP) access.
- Proficiency with web application technologies, such as Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Springboot, etc.
- Deep understanding of software design patterns.
- Knowledge of Agile Development methodologies.
- Experience with a version control system (e.g., Git) and experience with an issue/problem tracking system (e.g., Jira).
- Proficiency with multiple operating systems (Linux, Windows).
- Proficiency with virtualized development environments and technology (VMs).
- Proficiency with at least one Relational Database Management System (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc.).
- Proficiency with MS Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, & PowerPoint).
- DOD 8570 IAT level 2 baseline certification.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $118,300.00 - $213,850.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 46,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
Pay and Benefits
Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.
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Commitment to Diversity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
