Software Engineer

Job Title : Software Engineer

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Job Location : Remote

Job Type : Full time 40 hours

Security Clearance : Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance

Travel Requirement : Up to 20%

Job Description

Sherpa 6 is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Engineer and forward thinker with significant experience in developing software for a variety of platforms.

Candidate should have experience with development of full-stack applications and communicate this progress to the client.

The role will require you to ensure communications with the development life-cycle and managing communication between client specifications and the development team.

This role needs to have strong analytical skills, an understanding of agile and Scrum methodologies, and opinions on process improvements and innovations with project management.

The ability to create, motivate, and meet deadlines is critical to the role. We require someone to establish a relationship with users for product testing.

An ideal candidate should be self-driven, experienced, able to effectively balance details with project goals, and deadline oriented.

This role requires clear thinking, anticipation of problems, and strong communication skills. We’re looking for someone that has ease working with an agile environment with little supervision.

This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement and test-driven development.

Responsibilities

• The preferred candidate will have extensive experience with software development and software engineering principles.
• Act as a subject matter expert for software development and engineering.
• Code and test software based upon software specifications and designs.
• Analyze and study complex system requirements.
• Design software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain software development.
• Use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, and fault tolerant.
• Provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process.

RequirementsQualifications :

• BS or Masters in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with Java or C++.
• Experience with Linux.
• Programming experience with Java, Angular, GO.
• Strong team player who thrives in a highly collaborative and cross-function environment with a growth mindset.
• Familiarity with connecting mobile applications to web services.
• Experience with Scrum or another agile methodology a plus.
• Development processes : source control, defect tracking, collaborative tools, code review a plus.
• Capable of conducting peer reviews.
• Ability to mentor other software engineers.
• Capable of decomposing software requirements into actionable development capabilities.
• Excellent Communicator, both written and verbal.
• Must be a US citizen.
• Must pass a background check and drug screening.

Background Screening / Check / Investigation

Successful completion of a background screening / check / investigation will / may be required as a condition of hire.

Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.

Eeo / Aa

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access / opportunity / affirmative action employer.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan.

We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy.

This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

About Sherpa 6

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective.

We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology.

We hire people who are forward thinkers, passionate about what they do, love to collaborate and want to constantly learn.

We enjoy what we do and we're not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve.

We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harm's way.

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