What type of company is Helm Point?

Helm Point Solutions is growing a woman-owned Cyber & Physical Security Contractor located in Columbia, Maryland. We strive to make every employee belong, be heard and be successful in their career. This includes listening to your needs, providing rewarding and challenging opportunities, and offering tools to succeed in your current role while preparing you for advancement. We are looking for ambitious folks to join our team and who want to help our customers meet their mission needs.
Description​The selected individual will perform software development activities as a member of an agile development team focused on preparation and execution of verification tests of our software releases. Development includes the full range of turning agile stories into implementable concepts, through development, testing and deployment of the new capabilities in this large, complex system. Our developers are responsible for implementing robust testing leveraging DEVOPS automation and, where appropriate, use of test automation commercial tools. Developers will have the opportunity to focus on developing customer domain specific language code and there are a range of opportunities for Java, embedded C , scripting languages, object-oriented modeling tools, low-level programming, serialization/deserialization, and dependency injection
.Primary Responsibilities
The SVT Software Engineer will be responsible for software development activities both individually and as a member of an agile team. She/he will actively participate in program increment planning and related team activities, and will analyze and study complex system requirements, use design software tools, provide support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques with the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, and will use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, fault tolerant, and reusable. The individual will provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process. Additionally, the individual will promote code reuse and cross-program collaboration while reducing maintenance costs by creating common functions and shared actions for developers and testers. The individual will engineer, author, tune and document automation scripts in a development environment and deploy to the test/production bench.Basic Qualifications

• Must have demonstrated experience with Java.
• Experience or familiarity with multiple the following: Java/JEE, Python, C/C , SQL, SOAP, WSDL, WADL, PERL, PowerShell, VBS, Eclipse, Postgres, Oracle, Jenkins.
• Experience with Web Application User Interface Development, knowledge of databases and structures, and/or experience working with JSON, HTML, XML, XSLT.
• Experience developing on Windows, and/or Linux operating systems.
• Must have documented professional experience with web services.
• Must have a strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.
• Must be able to plan and prioritize personal tasking and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least 8 years of relevant experience.

• Experience with high level requirements management including requirements decomposition, secure systems engineering and development, trade-off analysis, interface control, and testing and continuous integration.
• Experience in software development on Agile teams using Agile Developer practices
• Developing/integrating with custom defined Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
• Implementing structures in a scripting language that can be interpreted by a DSL.
• Experience with developing real-time embedded software.
• Experience with the following: JEE (EJB, JPA, JTA, JAX-B, JAX-RS, JAX-WS), SQL, application servers 
• Secure Software development (i.e., Layer 7 Policy).
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology, SAFe Agilest Certification, or experience as a member of an agile team.
• Additional experience in J2EE, Python, C/C , SQL, SOAP, WSDL, Postgres, Oracle, Mongo, PowerShell a plus.

What we offer?
In addition to a rewarding career and an active leadership team, we offer a full suite of benefits including: CareFirst Gold Medical Insurance, 401K Match, Profit Sharing, Employee Cash bonuses, a leave buy-back program and Access Perks discount program.
 
Helm Point Solutions, Inc. does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
 
The advertised position may be used to fill multiple positions, if you have any interest in similar types of positions please be sure to mention in your application.