Title:  Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Code: 21574

Job Location: Greenville, Texas – (Responsibilities must be performed on-site.)

Job Schedule: 9/80 Work Schedule – (Every other Friday is a non-workday.)

Job Description: 

• Responsible for research, design, and development of application software in multi-tier architectures to configure and manage Mission Communications Systems equipment.
• Analyzes requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
• Ability to develop and analyze design tradeoffs against scope, cost, and schedule constraints
• Perform coding and unit test of resultant software
• Perform software component integration
• Participate in peer reviews
• Identifying, tracking, and repairing defects.
• Support continuous improvement, process innovation and lessons learned activities into software development process
• Experience developing, testing, and debugging (GDB) in the Linux OS.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
• OR Master’s Degree with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
• A combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Experience with backend application development including the following:
  • Multi-process/multi-thread and shared memory environments
  • Network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP)
  • Usage of complex data structures via various methods of storage/access
• Proficiency in a high level programming language such as C and C++
• Prior work with containers, shell scripts, and system services is a plus
• Capable of working in a fast-paced environment and able to work independently as a contributing member of a focused team
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Preferred Additional Skills:

• DoD Secret or TS/SCI Security Clearance
• Experience with Google Protocol Buffer (GPB) data serialization and NATS publish-subscribe messaging
• Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban)
• Experience working with DevSecOps including CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory)
• Experience in the use of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) methodologies
• Experience with JavaScript and WebSocket.