Sr. Software Engineer

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a Sr. Applications Software Engineer in our National Security Sector's (NSS) Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management.

Competitive benefits include Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more.

Product development includes tactical mobile development as well as enterprise web application development. The portfolio of products support the Cybersecurity and Information Assurance domains. These systems deploy a variety of technologies and communicate with infrastructure interfaces to bring secure, modern-day Cybersecurity and Cryptographic Key Management solutions to the warfighter.

The successful candidate will work on a mix of web service development, full stack web application development and robust persistence layer implementations in an Agile Scrum environment. This involves the use of Themes, Epics, User Stories, acceptance criteria and other system engineering artifacts as part of an Agile team.

He/she will use a variety of software engineering best practices and clean coding techniques to ensure that developed code is maintainable, efficient, reliable, understandable, secure, fault tolerant and meets S.O.L.I.D coding principles.

The candidate will be an expert in secure software development principles and techniques. He/she will use software tools in cooperation with continuous integration and test automation management process and understand software components and their interface requirements.

The candidate will interface with software engineers, system engineers, information assurance engineers, test engineers, quality assurance, and other project team members. He/she will be responsible for setting the standards and helping the team adopt and adhere to Test Driven Development (TDD) practices within the Leidos Agile Framework to ensure the proper degree of engineering rigor is applied to all assigned tasks.

The candidate will also mentor junior software engineers.

• BS Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineer or equivalent and 17+ years of relevant experience or a Masters with 15+ years of prior experience
• Active Secret Clearance (Required)
• Experience with web-based (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) in a web-based environment
• Experience in Scrum Methodology or other Agile environments (e.g., SAFe, XP)
• Experience with UI / Development Frameworks (E.g, AngularJS, Ionic, GWT, SmartGWT, Qt, React, Node.js)
• Experience with Automated Testing Tools/Technologies/Concepts (Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, BDD)
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Works well in a team environment and has excellent written and communication skills
• DoD 8570 approved security certification (i.e., Security +) (Will be required 90 days after hire).

• Experience with Web Services Architectures (REST, SOAP, AWS)
• Experience with Software CM (e.g., Git, Git Hub)
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Quality, and Dev Ops concepts and tools / technologies (e.g., Ant / Maven, Jenkins, Sonar Qube, Fish Eye, Crucible, Gradle, Junit)
• Experience with Security Scanning (HP Fortify, HP Web Inspect)
• Experience with Build Scripts (e.g., Maven, ANT)
• Experience with Mobile Application Development
• Experience with Agile Management Tools and Concepts (e.g., Version One, JIRA, Rally, etc.)
• Experience with Web Server Configuration (e.g., JBOSS, Wildfly, Tomcat)
• Experience with Database Development (e.g., Postgres, SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.