Software Engineer

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   

The Technology and Product Development (TPD) group oversees multiple projects that focus on creating synthetic environments, training, or mission planning and awareness. The TPD Software Engineer will focus on full stack web-application development, working with a team of software engineers to build high performance, containerized training applications. At CAE we use a combination of C# .NET, Python, and TypeScript. This is  full-time in-office position. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities   

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

• Help develop and implement new products, redesign existing products, and perform research and testing on product concepts. 

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

• Collaborate with Technical Leads and Product Managers to design, develop, test, and deploy new features and enhancements. 

• Responsible for coding, integrating, testing, and documenting software/systems in support of products and R&D projects. 

• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in an Agile environment. 

• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems. 

Qualifications and Education Requirements   

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

• Must have had formal software programming training classes. 

• A major front-end framework, specifically Angular or React for building responsive and dynamic user interfaces. 

• Backend development using C# and the .NET 

• Building and consuming RESTful APIs. 

• Foundational knowledge of relational databases, with hands-on experience using PostgreSQL. 

• Exposure to messaging systems like Kafka and caching systems like Redis. 

• Familiarity with containerization technologies, primarily Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (K8s) 

• A basic wor