Position: Lead, Software Engineer Location: Herndon, Virginia, United States Terms: Direct Hire
Job Description:
EMSS is seeking experienced software engineers to support multiple software product deliveries, system modernization efforts, and future growth initiatives. The candidate will provide technical leadership, take ownership of software products, and drive development across the full software lifecycle from requirements through deployment and sustainment.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership across the team, mentor junior engineers, and leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software design, implementation, testing, debugging, and delivery while maintaining high-quality engineering standards.
Strong technical leadership and ownership mindset.
Experience across the full software development lifecycle.
Strong software architecture and system design skills.
Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
Active Secret clearance.
Preferred Skillsets:
10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong Java, C++, Java Spring Boot, REST API development experience.
Multi-threaded application development.
Database design and integration experience.
Linux development environment experience.
CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance, including Jenkins.
Containerized software development and deployment.
Kubernetes and Cloud and hybrid-cloud deployment experience.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.
DoD, SATCOM, networking, gateway, or telecommunications experience.
Docker and Kubernetes administration.
AWS GovCloud or cloud-native application experience.
DevSecOps and automated testing frameworks.
Cybersecurity-aware software development.
Experience with distributed systems and enterprise-scale applications.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Melbourne, FL
Skills
Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
C++ Programming Languageunmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Continuous Integrationunmatched
Database Designunmatched
Debugging Skillsunmatched
Distributed Computingunmatched
Dockerunmatched
Engineeringunmatched
Hybrid Cloudunmatched
Internet Securityunmatched
Javaunmatched
Jenkinsunmatched
Linux Operating Systemunmatched
Mentoringunmatched
Multithreaded Programmingunmatched
Product Supportunmatched
Quality Engineeringunmatched
Quality Managementunmatched
Quality Metricsunmatched
REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
Satellite Communicationsunmatched
Secret Clearanceunmatched
Software Administrationunmatched
Software Architecture Designunmatched
Software Designunmatched
Software Developmentunmatched
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
Spring Frameworkunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Telecommunicationsunmatched
Testingunmatched
United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
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