Title: Senior Software Engineer
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
The Senior Software Engineer will work individually and in a collaborative team-focused environment. Individual will prototype, design, develop and integrate unique solutions to hard problems. Individual will lead parts of software development efforts through all aspects of the software engineering life cycle including scope and work estimation, design, documentation, implementation, testing and integration. Senior Software Engineer will assist in determining and recommending the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines and other resource constraints. Must be dynamic, innovative, self-starting problem solver. Must have the aptitude and attitude to tackle unsolved technical challenges.
Senior Software Engineer will:
• Interact with software system engineers and technical team leads to rapidly learn a complex operational system, its subsystems, and components to positively contribute to development;
• Determine and communicate system requirements and capabilities in furtherance of the customer’s mission;
• Design, develop and document modular, readable, and maintainable solutions to hard problems;
• Champion and implement advanced software development practices in an Agile environment;
• Recommend and lead changes to development and systems integration that will increase efficiency and development effectiveness.
Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and experience commensurate with the requested level in software engineering; if no degree, equivalent experience in software engineering;
• 12+ years of verifiable experience independently designing and implementing medium to large-sized software systems and components;
• Ability to develop across the full stack of system development;
• Ability to setup, configure and use DevOps tools including continuous integration, unit testing, source repos, etc.;
• Five+ years of experience developing in C#;
• Five+ years verifiable experience creating software with two or more of the following technologies:
o Python
o Java,
o JavaScript,
o JQuery,
o Angular or similar frameworks
• Familiarity with Ansible scripting
• Ability to learn new languages and toolchains as the solution space requires.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written media to describe the strengths and weaknesses of software designs and the implementations of those designs;
• Knowledge of Linux operating system (centOS or Ubuntu desired)
• Proven experience in solving challenging technical problems.
• Experience developing with GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
• Ability to create and read Bash scripts
• Experience with PKI and SSL from the programmer’s perspective
• Experience with Agile development methodologies