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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Software Engineering Innovation Center (SEIC) is one of the government’s largest resources dedicated entirely to software engineering; delivering capabilities that modernize legacy systems, that prototype ways to address unmet mission needs, and that deliver advanced functionality pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Each of MITRE’s R&D centers utilize our skills and expertise to address today’s cross-cutting technology challenges in domains like agile development, mobile computing, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, human-machine teaming, user experience, virtual reality, robotics, artificial intelligence, decentralization and more.

The Software Solutions and Technology department within the SEIC focuses on hands-on software engineering, from prototyping to production. We are experts in developing mobile and web applications, collaboration platforms, data analytics solutions, cloud architectures, autonomous systems, machine learning use cases, and more to support a broad spectrum of local, national, and global missions across MITRE.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Senior Full Stack Solutions Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to leverage your hands-on expertise on multiple teams to develop, evaluate, and integrate web-based applications for a variety of needs. Specific responsibilities might include:

• Working or leading design, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation of applications.

• Utilizing knowledge and experience to choose the right technologies that best help solve a complex technical challenge, to prototype/integrate a web or mobile app, and to perform tech assessments

• Preparing and presenting a technical briefing for a sponsor or communicating your work to your team to facilitate collaboration and mentorship.

• Learning from and helping shape our engineering culture while keeping pace with current/ emerging technologies to inform your work or support new approaches.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to possess/maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

• Typically, 5 years of related experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or similar field. Alternatively, candidates with an equivalent combination of related education and work experience (ex. Masters and 3 years) are also successful

• Proven proficiency with at least one programming language such as Python, JavaScript, Java, or C#

• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering on prototypes or full web/ mobile applications.

• Strong verbal and written communication through things like code, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration tools, pull-request discussions, documentation, proposals, and presentations.

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A track-record of leading small technical teams

• Advanced degrees/certifications

• Already existing clearance, agency fitness, or suitability

• Experience across the entire software lifecycle, from design/architecture to agile development, continuous integration, deployment (CI/CD), and support

• Usage of development tools and platforms such as git, Github/Gitlab, Jira, Bitbucket, docker, k8s, etc.

• Familiarity with multiple operating systems (i.e. Windows, Linux, Mac)

• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS, Azure, etc. and surrounding tooling

• Deep knowledge of web apps and associated systems—like network and hosting environments, frameworks, services and APIs, standards across the full stack (i.e. HTML/CSS, Relations/Non-Relational databases, JSON, HTTP, SSL, REST, React, Django, etc.), user interfaces/experiences, quality assurance, and security

• Demonstrated work in the domains we work in (i.e. artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, mobile development (iOS/Android), DevOps, etc.)

• Interest in or contributions to open source projects

  This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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