Senior Software Engineer

About This Role

Who We Are:  

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.  

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.  

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.  

What We Have to Offer:  

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance  

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe  

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions  

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!  

Summary   

We work on creating cutting edge cloud software to support the Department of Defense.  Our software teams work in an agile collaborative environment where each scrum team is composed of 5 to 10 developers.  Our software architecture is based on micro services which heavily utilizes Docker.  We have multiple projects that either focus on creating synthetic environments, training, or mission planning and awareness.  

We use different technologies/programming languages due to our micro service architecture, because of this we look for candidates that have a strong desire to keep learning and advancing their skills.  In order to support this continuous learning, we provide a number of resources to foster this as well as providing the training time.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities   

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   

• Strong coder with demonstrated proficiency in one or more of the following: C#, JavaScript, Java. 

• Strong coder with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as C#, Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, or similar languages. 

• Must be eligible for Secret DoD Personal Security Clearance. 

• Participate in the development of algorithms for new product concepts. 

• Develop and research ideas for possible R&D projects. 

• Passion to develop cutting edge software to solve complex problems for the Department of Defense. 

• Desire to develop innovative software for various R&D projects. 

• Responsible for software planning, design, planning, prototyping, execution, and deployment of new features. 

• Capable of mentoring and aiding junior software developers. 

• Must have a strong interest in the creation of new products. 

• Must be able to collaborate and perform effectively as part of a project "team". 

Qualifications and Education Requirements   

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, software, or computer science. 

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience or a master’s degree in engineering or computer science with 3 years of software engineering experience 

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.   

Preferred Skills   

• Working with RESTful APIs such as Flask, Node.js, or C# ASP .Net  

• Experience creating web appl