Principal Software Developer

Overview

Title: Principal Software Developer

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Job Type: Full-time

Terra Power is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. Terra Power’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field.

The company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

In addition, as a federal contractor, Terra Power has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Principal Software Developer

We’re looking for a highly skilled full stack developer to help build and maintain our primary data management application, called Atom. This tool is a key part of our plan to improve the world’s ability to deliver data-heavy nuclear power construction projects on time and budget. It contains a nuclear reactor project-specific data model linking the plant safety functions, requirements, scientific analyses, documentation, tests, and more.

It acts as an integrated data ecosystem across the project to help coordinate design and construction efforts. It facilitates workflows that satisfy project procedures. This role will work closely with engineering management, QA, and the internal user base to continue to build and refine the tool’s capabilities, improve the quality pedigree, monitor and improve performance as needed, and to fix bugs as they are identified.

The tool has a Python/Django/DRF backend running on RHEL servers with a JavaScript/Vue3/Quasar frontend SPA user interface. The developer team is relatively small: only ~5 people. We’re looking for someone who takes pride in the craft of software development, is willing to learn and understand our somewhat obscure use case and needs, and is highly focused, driven, and self-motivated. Terra Power is an equal opportunity employer.

• Design, implement, document, and test software based on formally defined requirements and bug reports from the in-house user base
• Design and implement refactorizations and maintenance to maximize near- and long-term productivity of users and developers
• Identify and prioritize tasks without them being explicitly assigned to you
• Support verification and validation efforts to prove that the codes meet specifications and are correct
• Systematically identify performance or productivity bottlenecks; design and implement solutions to eliminate them
• Perform administrative data management operations on the backend based on user and management needs
• Understand and translate new feature requests into formal software requirements
• Train and support reactor designers to use the software system
• Provide mentoring to other developers
• Support software build and testing systems (like our Jenkins instance and related dashboards)
• Support server configuration and maintenance needs
• Facilitate design reviews for ongoing developments to keep review/approval process as productive as possible
• Review proposed code changes and provide detailed feedback before allowing it to go live
• Ensure compliance with quality standards and regulatory…