Senior Software Developer - Space Weather

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Senior Software Developer to support our customer located in Herndon. We are seeking an individual with strong technical and team collaboration skills to help drive new product delivery as part of successful deployment of the Space Weather Analysis Forecasting Service (SWAFS)/ GovCloud solution. Candidate will act as primary point of contact for team consumption of technical requirements from Product-owner, Chief Systems Engineer, Software Developers, Engineers, and Architects.  Join our dynamic team to Do the Can’t Be Done! 

 

Responsibilities:

 

The Senior Java Developer, in conjunction with assigned SCRUM Master, will build out the technical tasks, populate the SaFE/Agile backlog, and drive technical development parameters, code development and integration using established tools, techniques, processes, and define product delivery, expectations, or validate requirements.  Works with Software/System Architects, Data/Space Scientists, Cyber-Security and other technical leads on establishing / adhering to industry coding standards and implements best practices.

• Participate in all phases of development from definition and design through implementation, unit test and code deployment.
• Develop and execute meticulous unit tests to ensure quality of releasable software.
• Participate in peer code reviews.
• Assist in defining structured practices especially in source code management, build and release management. 
• Participate in usability reviews and lead improvements in SW design.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the SW. 
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards. 

Technical:

• Writing application code with programming languages -- JAVA (required) other languages, JavaScript, Python, C#, C++ (beneficial)
• Working with Developers, Test, Platform, and SW Architects to produce, maintain, and update code in applications under development or deployed.
• Understand fully REST data / services feeding into a SaaS applications -- promote/facilitate best practices among Team.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years’ relevant experience OR Master’s degree with 10 years’ relevant experience. Four (4) years of relevant expereince can stand in place for equivalency in lieu of degree.
• Security Clearance:  Active Secret. Must be able to obtain and maintain Top Secret Clearance
• Must be fully proficient with coding in JAVA 
  • Familiarity in other languages, C, C#, C++, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, are beneficial (desired) 
• Ideal developer is meticulous, thorough, able to accept/offer objective critique for one's own code and during peer reviews.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD deployment process
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process. 
• Ability to be flexible, meet tight deadlines, pivot when priorities change, and project calm during stressful situations.
• Must be able to translate high-level engineering requirements (SW features) into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into tasks for the individual or team (stories). 
• Must be able to decompose technical requirements into consumable stories / work packets or "T-shirt sizes". 
• Intermediate knowledge of Git and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. GitLab a plus. 
• Ability to provide customer-facing presentations of codebase, functionality, and/or improvements (under the hood). 
• Ability to capture knowledge and document processes, clearly, and concisely. 

Desired qualifications:

• Must be a self-starter! This position works collaboratively at times, or with minimum direction.
• Intermediate-level knowledge of AWS/C2S Cloud solutioning. 
• Able to lead cross-team collaboration.
• Investigative skills to track and determine problems and perform root-cause analysis of code issues.

 

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Ea