Software Engineer (Mid​/Senior

Join Our Innovative Team at Mile 2! Do you like solving tough problems and building cool tech? Do you thrive in a team where creativity is encouraged? If so, Mile 2 might be the place for you. We're all about tackling complex challenges and creating advanced solutions that make a tangible impact for our government partners. We use the latest tech to create seamless integrations between human expertise and machine capabilities.

Full-time

• Supported Autonomy:
  We trust you to take initiative and make decisions, but we've always got your back.
• Humble Expertise:
  We respect everyone's knowledge and skills, creating an environment where we learn and grow together.
• Success is a Team Effort:
  We believe that we can only achieve great things when we work as a team.
• Tangible Results:
  We're motivated by the desire to create real, measurable impacts through our work.

Mile 2 is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to support the development, integration, sustainment, and modernization of cloud-based software and data services for a Department of the Air Force customer. The Software Engineer will work as part of an Agile development team supporting operational and emerging capabilities within a large-scale enterprise data and catalog ecosystem. The role will primarily focus on backend or full-stack software development, including cloud-native applications, APIs and microservices, data storage and retrieval, automation, event-driven architectures, and containerized deployments.

• Design, develop, test, integrate, and maintain cloud-native software applications and services.
• Develop backend services, APIs, microservices, and supporting application components for enterprise data and catalog capabilities.
• Design and integrate solutions involving databases, object storage, metadata, tagging, search, indexing, and data retrieval.
• Develop and maintain software supporting event-driven and distributed architectures.
• Build automation to improve application deployment, integration, testing, configuration, and operational sustainment.
• Develop containerized applications and support deployment to Kubernetes-based cloud environments.
• Integrate software into established CI/CD pipelines and Government-managed Git Lab repositories.
• Maintain and enhance existing operational applications, including troubleshooting, bug fixes, performance improvements, refactoring, and minor capability enhancements.
• Support the development and integration of services such as catalog management, object storage, enterprise search, source citation, metadata management, and related enterprise data services.
• Develop secure software following applicable cybersecurity, Zero Trust, and secure software development practices.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and system tests to support reliable software delivery.
• Collaborate with software engineers, Dev Sec Ops  engineers, architects, product owners, Scrum Masters, and Government technical stakeholders.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum activities including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and technical design discussions.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API/interface documentation, software dependencies, deployment documentation, and user or integration guidance.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical direction when appropriate.
• Evaluate existing systems and recommend improvements to architecture, performance, maintainability, reliability, and scalability.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance
• Must have DoD Common Access Card (CAC)
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 7 years of software development experience.
• Strong experience developing production software in a modern programming language.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, distributed applications, or full-stack applications.
• Experience working with databases and persistent data stores.
• Experience with modern software development practices including source control, automated testing, code review, and CI/CD.
• Experience developing software within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and develop solutions based on customer requirements.
• Strong technical communication and documentation skills.

• Active U.S. Security Clearance
• Designing, developing, and deploying cloud-native applications.
• Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker.
• AWS, Azure, GCP, or Department of Defense cloud environments.
• Infrastructure, deployment, or configuration automation.
• Git Lab and Git Lab CI/CD.
• Microservices and distributed system architectures.
• Event-driven architectures, messaging, or publish/subscribe patterns.
• RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, and service integration.
• Relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Object storage technologies.
• Enterprise…