Senior Level Software Engineer

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Job Description

 

AV's Specialized Exploitation & Targeting (SET) Department is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and strategic direction in support of NASIC at Wright-Patterson AFB. You will lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of multiple source code repositories for mission-critical data analysis tools that support the production of technical intelligence products for warfighters, senior decision-makers, and the Intelligence Community. As a senior technical contributor, you will mentor development teams, drive architectural decisions, and establish engineering best practices. Technologies used in this position range from languages such as C++, Python, and TypeScript to document stores such as Elasticsearch and SQL stores such as PostgreSQL.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of complex software systems across multiple applications and websites on both Windows and Linux environments.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to mid-level and junior software engineers, conducting code reviews and promoting engineering excellence.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions for current and future development initiatives.
• Lead software design meetings and architecture reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and mission requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, product owners, and intelligence analysts to translate complex operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, development workflows, and quality assurance processes.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for critical production issues and provide technical oversight for incident response.
• Design and implement comprehensive testing strategies including unit, integration, and functional test plans.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks to enhance team productivity and system capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, or a closely related technical field. MS preferred.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in software design, development, coding, testing, and debugging.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership or senior engineering role.
• Proven track record of leading software architecture and design for complex, distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in web/service-based design, programming, and requirements analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in front-end technologies including JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS3, and HTML5 and frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Expert-level knowledge of server-side programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, and Go.
• Extensive experience with document stores (Elasticsearch or similar) and SQL stores such as PostgreSQL, including performance optimization and schema design.
• Strong background in containerization technologies, including creation, deployment, and orchestration of Open Container Images.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and managing production Kubernetes environments, including networking, storage, workload management, and security configurations.
• Expert-level proficiency in git version control, branching strategies, and establishing team git hygiene standards.
• Proven experience implementing and championing test-driven development practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (Gitlab CI/CD or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical teams.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing comprehensive interface validation and testing strategies for both synchronous interfaces (HTTP APIs) and asynchronous interfaces (Kafka message bus, etc.).
• CompTIA Security+ certification or higher (CISSP, CEH, etc.).
• Advanced experience with Gitlab CI/CD, including pipeline optimization and security scanning integration.
• Proven experience refactoring and modernizing large, legacy code bases.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-level Kubernetes application architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong background in software architecture patterns, design principles, and system integration.