Description

Job Description:

Ready for your next career step? We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineers with 8+ years hands-on experience to join our dynamic team in Huntsville, AL. 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.

Primary Responsibilities

These are some of the cool things you will be doing:

• 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.

• Lead, design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug mission critical software source code using modern software development languages and tools, such as C#, .NET or C++.

• Implement Agile development tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket/Git/Azure DevOps Server 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 entire projects or processes within a technical area.

• Responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower level technical staff.

• Build software solutions where the solution is not always well defined but always considers the customer first.

Basic Qualifications

To be successful in this role you must have the following:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 8+ years of related experience.

• Proficiency with C#, .NET, C++, or other object-oriented programming language is required.

• Knowledge of data structures and object-oriented design is required.

• Experience with network protocols, concurrency, or asynchronous communication is required.

• Must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.

• Ability to complete tasking independently with minimal direct supervision.

• Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplined engineering team.

• Must be a US citizen with the ability to obtain a DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

You will wow us even more if you have these skills:

• Knowledge of a version control system (e.g., Git and Azure DevOps Server).

• Knowledge of Agile Development methodologies.

• Knowledge of reverse engineering and debugging.

• Knowledge of Software integration in complex systems.

• Knowledge of unit testing and continuous integration best practices.

• Knowledge of design patterns.

• Knowledge of socket-based communication protocols (e.g., DIS, CIGI).

• Familiarity with multiple operating systems (Mac OSX, Windows, LINUX, etc.).

• Proficiency with MS Office Products (Word, Excel, Visio, & PowerPoint).

• Active DoD security clearance.

Pay Range:

The 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.