Software Engineering Manager – Mission-Critical Systems

L3Harris Technologies; Camden (NJ); On-site; USD 147,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and disability insurance

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts

Education assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies in Camden, NJ seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of mission-critical software across full lifecycle including requirements, architecture, design, implementation, integration, and test.

You will guide a team of engineers, mentor staff, support recruiting, and contribute to proposal efforts and planning in a fast-paced defense tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum 9 years of related experience, or a Graduate Degree with 7 years, or 13 years without a degree.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical and task leadership for a team of software engineers, ensuring delivery of high-quality software on cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Lead development of RESTful APIs and service-based architectures with Java enterprise applications deployed as WARs on JBoss or similar servers.
• Guide software deployment and sustainment on RHEL systems and RPM packaging/distribution.
• Participate in and lead code and design reviews, architecture discussions for service-based, VoIP, and application-level software.
• Collaborate across systems, electrical, cybersecurity, and program leadership for end-to-end integration.
• Mentor engineers on technical growth and performance expectations, and support recruiting and onboarding.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership

RESTful services design

Strong communication

Agile development

Proposal development / EVMS exposure

Education

Bachelor’s Degree with 9+ years experience

Graduate Degree with 7+ years experience

13+ years experience without degree

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

Configuration management

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

RPM packaging

Java WAR deployments (JBoss)

VoIP / SIP frameworks (PJSIP / PJMEDIA)

Job description

L3Harris Technologies in Camden, NJ seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of mission-critical software across full lifecycle including requirements, architecture, design, implementation, integration, and test.

You will guide a team of engineers, mentor staff, support recruiting, and contribute to proposal efforts and planning in a fast-paced defense tech environment.