Software Engineer Lead

Leidos is partnering with the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) MFLC Program to support military service members and their families across the country and worldwide. Leidos is hiring a Software Engineer Lead to support this important mission. In this position, you will lead a team of developers and work collaboratively to architect, design, build, deliver, and enhance highly available scalable systems.  You will exercise your judgment in determining and recommending the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines, and other resource constraints. You will participate in and/or direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development life cycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding, code reviews, unit testing, and deployment.  You will lead a weekly meeting to check in on the team, and one on one meetings as required with individuals.

This opportunity is REMOTE and requires U.S. Citizenship.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle.

• Own the delivery of an entire piece of a system or application and serve as a technical lead on projects.

• Work closely with other engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for product development.

• Ensure the team adheres to software engineering best practices.

• Build software solutions where the solution is not always well defined but always considers the customer first.

• Mentor other engineers in the art of building complex, web-scale systems.

• Resolve roadblocks for the development team, working collaboratively with the Product Owner, technical leadership, and other engineers.

• Plan and estimate development tasks and work to improve performance metrics.

Minimum Requirements:

• BS and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience

• Must have experience delivering an entire system or application

• Must have at least 2 years of experience serving as a technical lead

• Deep understanding of software design patterns

• Solid understanding of software development process fundamentals

• Must have experience with C# -Microsoft .Net framework

• Experience with JavaScript and JS frameworks such as Vue as well as experience working with basic web technologies (HTML, CSS, XML, REST, JSON)

• Must have experience working with Cloud Technologies, AWS specifically

• Experience working with a version control system (e.g., Git)

• Must have experience working with CI/CD processes and tools

• Experience working with multiple operating systems (MacOS, Windows, Linux)

• Experience working with MySQL

• Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques

• Ability to complete tasks independently with minimal direct supervision

• Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplined engineering team

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with Leidos ECM and AWS GovCloud environments

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.