Principal Software Engineer

RPMGlobal; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions in Annapolis, MD seeks a senior software engineer to join our defense-focused team. You will design and optimize large-scale analytics, real-time systems and data processing pipelines, using Java, C++, Python, and more, across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.

Responsibilities include shaping software architecture, reviewing code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams while applying modern development practices and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and

Qualifications

• Twenty (20) years experience as a software engineer is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional software engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Develops, maintains, and enhances complex software systems across analytics and real-time processing.
• Reviews and tests software components for adherence to design requirements.
• Resolves software problem reports.
• Utilizes software development methodologies appropriate to the environment.
• Contributes to system design decisions and trade-offs with hardware/software considerations.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams using Jira/Confluence and Git.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Go

JavaScript

Scala

Ruby

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Eclipse

IntelliJ IDEA

PyCharm

Visual Studio

VS Code

GitHub

JIRA

Confluence

Maven

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

SVN

CVS

Job description

Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is looking for a top-notch software engineer to join our team. We are driven to solve challenging customer problems by leveraging innovative technical solutions. Our software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that drive decision making and impact our national defense. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and UI design. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems as we continue to push technology forward.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements.
• Works individually or as part of a team.
• Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results.
• Resolves software problem reports.
• Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.
• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
• Experience with some or all of the following: Programming languages such as Java, C#, C++, JavaScript, Python, Scala, Ruby and Go.
• Experience with IDEs such as Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Visual Studio and VS Code.
• Experience with operating systems such as Windows, Unix, Linux and macOS.
• Experience with team collaboration and issue tracking tools such as Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence), GitHub and ServiceNow.
• Experience with software frameworks such as Spring, Angular and Bootstrap.
• Experience with databases such as Oracle, MySQL and MongoDB.
• Experience with build tools such as Maven and Jenkins.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Git, SVN and CVS.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Required Qualifications

• Twenty (20) years experience as a software engineer is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional software engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Not specified.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university with 20 years of experience.
• No bachelor's degree with 24 years of experience.

Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph