Full Stack Developer

Description

Job Description:

Leidos is seeking a Full Stack Developer for a critical and strategic new opportunity supporting the United States Space Force/Space Systems Center Enterprise Cross-mission Ground’s Defensive Cyber Operations for Space Branch (SSC/ECXCO).  SSC/ECXCO is designated as the responsible office to provide enterprise level DCO capability to the Space Enterprise. To accomplish the mission, applicant will be part of a team to prototype key defensive cyber features to include delivering space enterprise protection and threat detection, identification, protection, and response capabilities; Developing cyber solutions for the Enterprise Ground Service and future space systems; Providing operationally relevant cyberspace solutions through iterative development to meet mission needs today; Supporting legacy mission systems innovation/modernization during transition to Enterprise Ground Systems.  These capabilities are to be provided by Leidos via a small Agile SW Development team, co-located with the SSC/ECXCO customer in Colorado Springs, CO.  This is a full time position that must work at a customer location and no telework is allowed.  No clearance is required.

Primary Responsibilities

• Help Lead, design, develop and deliver modern secure software applications
• Support grooming of user stories, breakdown of development tasks and estimation of effort
• Design overall application architecture involving microservices, micro-frontends, APIs, integration patterns, database models and similar
• Build reusability in day to day development and maintain library of reusable components and services
• Work with UX engineers and business analysts to design impactful and intuitive interfaces
• Collaborate with Software Factory team to achieve disciplined adoption of modern software development practices like TDD, BDD, CI/CD and similar
• Troubleshoot defect issues, deduce root cause, and implement mechanisms to prevent reoccurrence and mitigate offshoot issues
• Efficiently divide and conquer software development tasks with application developers
• Actively seek ways to improve business software processes and interactions
• Aid and support the coaching and training of other team members to achieve better quality
• Participating in the design and creation of scalable software
• Writing clean, functional code on the front- and back-end
• Unit testing and fixing bugs or other coding issues
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering and 6+ years experience
• Competencies/Knowledge Base:  cloud-native design, web services

Preferred Qualifications

• Holds an active TS/SCI clearance
• Programming languages:  C, C#, C++, HTML, CSS, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Python, R, Perl, VBA
• PhD. In computer science, master’s degree in computer science or software engineering
• ElasticSearch engineer, leading SAFe, SAFe for teams
• Basic knowledge in the following:  Kibana, ElasticSearch Web Services, Elastic Stack (ELK), React,js, React Native, Material UI, Git, GitHub, bash, Subversion, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, phpMyAdmin, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Mongo, Json, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Red Hat Enterprise Linus (RHEL).
• Basic competencies:  Scrum, Kanban, extreme programming, artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent agents, pattern recognition, agent learning, machine learning (ML), modern UI/UX design, software architecture, website development, object-oriented design, distributed systems

Pay Range:

Covid Guidance

In order to enter Leidos facilities in the U.S. and to attend Leidos events outside our facilities, employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or maintain proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 96 hours of entry. In addition, we are receiving guidance from certain customers that onsite contractor personnel will need to be fully vaccinated to access customer facilities. If you are not vaccinated, please consider getting your COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact your Talent Acquisition POC. 

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 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. 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.