Software Engineer, Colorado Springs

Overview

What sets Davidson apart?

• 100% paid medical benefits - Prioritizing your health and well-being.
• Competitive 401(k) with company match - Investing in your future.
• Tuition reimbursement - Supporting your professional growth.

Davidson's commitment to employee well-being has earned us recognition as the Colorado Springs Gazette Best Workplace for 5 consecutive years!

We have also in recent years been nominated for The Best Place to Work, The Best Workplace for Millennia ls and voted The Best Place for Working Parents!

Davidson is distinguished in the aerospace and missile defense industry, in part, because of its excellence in hiring exceptional experts, engineers and software developers dedicated to delivering advanced, intelligent technology solutions in defense of our nation.

Davidson is seeking a (Mid-level) Software Engineer for Colorado Springs, CO. This position is an integral part of a fast-paced, innovative program involving system engineering and developing software for the Sentinel program. The program works cross-functionally and cross-site with innovative team members skilled in Software Engineering and Systems Engineering. The standard work schedule is 9/80. This allows for every other Friday off.

All team members should be able to:

• Self-organize and participate in an Agile development lifecycle
• Be able to build consensus within a cross-functional team
• Provide design inputs and collaborate to decompose, estimate, and refine backlog requirements

You will work within an Agile team providing technical leadership for the integration of requirements and design for software-intensive systems. The software engineer role focuses on software design, development and unit testing to meet customer’s emerging mission needs.

• Interface with Scrum team on technical considerations for associated problems, issues or conflicts
• Interface with chief architects to ensure technical requirements are met
• Develop technical documentation to include activity and sequence diagrams

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM related degree from an accredited college or university
• 5+ years of experience as software engineer
• Experience with designing, developing and troubleshooting C++
• Excellent organizational and facilitation skills
• Self-starting mentality and willingness to take ownership of difficult challenges

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with the following:

• Operational weapon software and embedded systems
• Real-time operating systems
• Git/Git Lab
• SysML, UML or other modeling languages
• Atlassian tool suite:
  Jira and Confluence

• Currently hold a Secret clearance or higher