LinQuest is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Dayton, OH. US Citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance required.

Senior Software Engineers architect software solutions for a specific project(s) and contribute technical leadership to their teams, while continuously assimilating modern design principles and software development best practices. The right candidate must be able to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary environment to acquire the domain-specific subject matter expertise to be effective as architects and technical leaders. These engineers lead and mentor "Junior" and "Mid-level" software engineers and have the technical expertise and consulting acumen to lead software teams. These engineers understand every facet of the software development lifecycle required to execute a project and can provision the necessary DevOps toolchains to create a CI/CD pipeline and have experience leading software development efforts using agile methodologies.

In this role, the candidate will lead and perform software development and Aviation Test/Simulation tasks for our team that are focused on the modeling, simulation, and related tool development supporting the analysis of aerospace weapons, sensors, and related C4ISR entities. The candidate will work with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, engineers, and analysts to develop solutions to complex technical problems while supporting the Scientific and Technical Intelligence community (NASIC, MSIC, NGIC, ONI) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). This challenging position requires technical and task management skills and allows for the opportunity to contribute immediately.

Responsibilities:

• Expected to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
• Architect and build custom software solutions while working with other software engineers, analysts, data architects, and SMEs.
• Provide technical guidance and project leadership.
• Break down complex problems into smaller, more manageable components.
• Expected to be passionate about software as a craft, be motivated to self-teach, and thrive in dynamic environments.
• Take ownership over all developed software, and to champion DevSecOps architectures, infrastructure, best practices, and process automation.
• Stay abreast of the latest technologies, design patterns, and agile processes.
• Establish the coding practices within the team.
• Perform code reviews of others' contributions and to take ownership over design decisions.
• Regularly report progress and setbacks to project managers to continually minimize outcome uncertainty throughout the software development lifecycle.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent.
• At least fifteen (15) years' experience developing software in a professional environment.
• Experience with TMAP, ITASE, JSE, and/or AFSIM models and architectures.
• Proficiency with C++, Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with: Java and/or NodeJS.
• Experience architecting applications to meet requirements, and lead a team of developers towards delivery, utilizing modern DevSecOps toolchains while following agile processes.
• Must have strong computer science fundamentals (SOLID) with extra emphasis on Simulation Environments, Cloud Based systems, microservice architectures, and RESTful APIs.
• Must have familiarity with modern JavaScript (ES6+) and front end libraries/frameworks such as React.
• Prior experience developing in a software factory team setting, using agile processes, and leveraging modern CI/CD tools such as Git/Jenkins/Docker.
• Experience with Test Driven Development and Software Quality Assurance (QA).
• Candidate must have strong written communication skills, possess good people skills, demonstrate strong attention to detail and have the desire to work on a highly focused technical team of engineers, analysts, and scientists.
• Must have the motivation and discipline to self-teach in order to gain new skills as required by new projects and stay current with the latest software development tools and best practices.
• Must have the attitude and demeanor to mentor and manage teammates to achieve customer goals.
• Must have the knowledge and communication skills to articulate trade-offs between design decisions/courses of action and provide effective updates on project outcome uncertainty to clients/project leadership.
• Candidate must have strong written communication skills, possess good people skills, and demonstrate strong attention to detail.
• An active Top Secret clearance is required.
• The ability to work in a secure, confined location (i.e., SCIF).

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Experience developing software using agile processes/guiding principles.
• SME level experience with TMAP, ITASE, JSE, and/or AFSIM models and architectures.
• Familiarity with radar, aircraft, missile, and/or space systems.
• Professional experience as a software developer supporting the US Government or the DoD.
• Prior experience building single-page applications or web services.
• Professional experience architecting cloud native web applications.
• Web components
• Relational Databases
• Algorithm Development
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Mapping and Visualization Web Technologies (D3, Cesium, Open Layers, WebGL)
• UI/UX Principles

Why LinQuest?

LinQuest Corporation has a stellar 40-year track record of providing end-to-end system-of-systems (SoS) architecture definition, engineering design, integration and test, and operations expertise to enable full lifecycle development and deployment of pre-eminent Space, Air, Land, Sea, Ground, and Cyberspace game-changing capabilities across US DOD and IC Customers' portfolios. Unique combination of in-depth domain knowledge, lessons learned-honed best practices, and mission-specific applications of principles, tools, and techniques of Digital Engineering (DE), DE Ecosystem (DEE), and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) set LinQuest apart from the competition to consistently deliver stellar high-value results for our customers. LinQuest's corporate vision and values place the employee at the center of utmost customer satisfaction, strategic business growth, and tactical execution excellence. Our employees' creative and inspirational drive, sense of fulfillment of personal and professional growth, and tightknit camaraderie within and across lines of business are essential in gaining and maintaining exceptional LinQuest corporate-wide results of new business awards and renewed contracts.

Benefits

LinQuest offers comprehensive and competitive benefit offerings to our team members to include medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, company paid life insurance, and more! For additional information please visit: https://www.linquest.com/careers/our-benefits.