Software Engineer II

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an area relevant to the position with 2+ years of applicable experience OR a Master’s degree in an area relevant to the position; an additional 4 years of applicable experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree.
• Active
  
  TS/SCI or SCI eligibility and active polygraph or ability to obtain a polygraph
• Strong foundational knowledge working with Java OOP development.
• Willingness to learn and become an effective team member.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Demonstrated experience with the systems engineering life-cycle.
• Previous hands‑on experience.
• Previous hands‑on coding experience with Python, Angular, Postgres, & SQL.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton is seeking a Software Engineering, Senior Associate in our Herndon, VA location to support a large software development classified program developing, operating, and maintaining mission critical enterprise capabilities. Program includes development and support for existing mission systems in parallel with effort to develop and deliver modernized cloud native, microservice‑based products. Team applies Agile methodology, Dev Ops principles and behavior and test‑driven development practices.

Candidate will apply Agile development processes to implement features as defined by user stories, 3‑week Sprints/3 Month Spins. Development using Java full stack. Develop/maintain platform related applications and libraries. Develop/maintain existing applications as requirements are requested and when updates are required. Candidate will resolve database issues and in creating new features/functionality for existing database.