Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Sterling VA

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary Target Range: $185,000 - $225,000

• This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary
  
  

Position Overview

Amatriot is seeking Full Stack Software Engineers to support our Makalu contract. If you are

interested and passionate about developing new products and components using modern

technologies, then this opportunity is for you! You will be working in a fast-paced, start-up like

atmosphere with new development in an agile environment. On Team Makalu, typical responsibilities

include proactively designing the architecture for new components, while also suggesting ways to

improve the application and overall web UI/UX. Our team works closely together with on-site and

remote engineers developing front-end applications and back-end microservices, all dedicated to

creating the best products and user experience possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Day-to-day expectations include solving challenging, but rewarding technical problems, meeting program objectives within the agile development cycle, suggesting ways to improve
• UX/UI, microservice architecture, and the software baseline, and introducing new ways to meet mission needs
• Work with other senior developers and program architect to find ways to improve application performance, reliability, resiliency, and observability while also mentoring junior teammates.
• Be part of an agile team where communication skills and the ability to execute within the established development process are paramount to your and the team's success
• Work on new technologies, striving to stay customer-focused and thriving on challenges to build new UI applications
• Utilize industry proven design patterns and open source tools
• Contribute to a positive and upbeat team atmosphere
  
  

Qualifications

• Clerance: TS/SCI (CI Poly preferred, can obtain after starting)
• Education:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, a related field or graduation from Coding Bootcamp
• CompTIA Security (within 6 months of hire)
• Experience:
• Experience using REST-based web services
• Experience developing in a microservices architecture
• Experience with cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes
• Experience working as a member of a development team participating in the complete product development lifecycle
• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies
• Familiarity with modern web technologies and techniques such as HTML5, CSS, CSS preprocessors (e.g. SASS, Less, Stylus), or JavaScript build tools (e.g. Browserify, WebPack, Closure)
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as Angular, Ember, React, Redux, Reactive, VueJS, along with the knowledge of when to use them
• Familiarity with Node.js and the NPM package ecosystem
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Linux environment and Linux shell scripting
• Knowledge of continuous integration and software CM processes / tools (Subversion, GIT, JIRA, Confluence)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• A passion for creating beautiful, engaging, intuitive, efficient and highly usable user interfaces.
• Experience with vector and motion graphics, including SVG, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL and animation via JavaScript and CSS Experience building rich data-driven web applications.
• Familiarity with real-time communication mechanisms such as WebSockets
• Familiarity with Svelte Framework
• Familiarity with Node, Cesium, and/or OpenLayers
• Familiarity with Spring, Docker, and/or Kubernetes
• Knowledge of microservices based architecture
• Familiarity with emerging trends in desktop, web, and mobile app development
• Experience with deployments, dev ops, and / or AWS Experience with Git