Software Engineering Manager; TS​/SCI; S} Security Clearance

Position: Staff Software Engineering Manager (TS/SCI) {S} with Security Clearance
Location: Aurora

ARKA Group L.P. ("ARKA") is an advanced technologies company serving the U.S. military, intelligence community, and commercial space industry delivering next-generation solutions to support the national security space enterprise. Built on more than six decades of excellence, ARKA brings modern approaches and a culture of innovation to the challenges of today. Join the ARKA team to learn how Beyond Begins Here.

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Position Overview:

This position is for a Staff Software Engineering Manager. ARKA-Mission Applications is seeking a talented and motivated Software Engineering Manager to join our growing team. This is a unique player/coach role designed for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about both building great software and leading people. You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a team of skilled software engineers while also actively contributing technically to the design, development, testing, and deployment of our software products.

You'll split your time effectively between guiding your team's success and rolling up your sleeves to write code, solve complex technical challenges, and contribute directly to our software ecosystem. We offer generous relocation benefits for eligible candidates. In support of work/life balance, many positions are available for a flexible schedule within the pay period. Ask us about the opportunity for flex scheduling if that's of interest to you.

Responsibilities:
Management & Leadership (Approx. 25% on average):
* Lead & Mentor:
Manage, coach, and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering their technical and professional growth, by providing career advice and helping with program technical guidance. Additionally, you will work with the greater software engineering group to cultivate a positive, collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team that is focused on bringing modern software development mechanism to all ARKA programs

* Performance Management:
Conduct regular 1:1 bi-weekly meetings with your team, provide feedback on both technical and non-technical topics, assist with setting clear goals, and manage performance reviews for your direct reports

* Collaboration:

Work closely with software engineering organization and other engineering program teams to align priorities, define requirements, and ensure successful project delivery across programs

* Project Oversight:
Help manage project priorities, timelines, and deliverables for your team, identifying and removing roadblocks

* Hiring & Onboarding:
Participate in the recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent for your team and the broader organization Additionally works closely with engineering leadership to align current and new staff skillsets with program needs over time
Technical Contribution (Approx. 75% on average):
* Hands-on Development:
Actively participate in the software development lifecycle, contributing high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code to key projects using our tech stack up to and including

* Proven proficiency in one or more modern programming language such as Python, Java, C#, Go

* Experience with the development and deployment of software applications to cloud environments such as AWS including the integration with managed services provided by the cloud provider

* Technical Design & Architecture:
Contribute to technical design discussions, architectural decisions, and long-term technical strategy

* Code Quality:
Participate actively in code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and high-quality engineering principles

* Stay Current and Mentor:
Keep abreast of modern technologies, tools, and development practices, advocating for improvements where appropriate. Leverage this continuous learning to mentor and provide technical direction to your software team

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

* 3+ years of experience in a formal or informal leadership capacity (e.g., Tech Lead, Team Lead, mentoring junior engineers, project leadership)

* 8+ years of professional software development experience, delivering complex, scalable applications

* Solid experience developing backend services and APIs using at least one common language and framework (e.g., Node.js/Express/NestJS, Python/Django/Flask/FastAPI, Java/Spring Boot/Quarkus, C#/.NET Core, Ruby/Rails, Go/Gin)

* Experience designing and interacting with relational databases (e.g., Postgre

SQL, MySQL) using SQL and familiarity with ORMs/query builders

* Familiarity with core concepts and services of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)

* Strong understanding of software development principles, data structures, algorithms, and API design (especially REST)

* Experience or familiarity with various database concepts such as relational structure as well as No

SQL structure concepts in tools such as Postgre

SQL, Mongo

DB, Redis

* Solid understanding of software…