In this role, you will be responsible for software development and integration activities for the Positive Train Control (PTC) Communication System serving North American railroads’ applications and/or related tools and systems. This includes software development activities consisting of application design, development, testing, and the creation of test/deployment tools and documentation. It also includes hands-on environment setup, development, issue triage, and debugging tasks necessary to create and maintain an on-site expertise in our application systems. The software applications and tools use a variety of languages including C and C++ as well as alternate languages such as Golang or other scripting languages. The majority of our software is targeted to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platforms.

MINIMUM EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Masters or Bachelors Degree with additional experience, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent applicable experience.
• 9 or more years of experience in application development.
• 3 or more years in a developer level technical leadership role
• 2 or more years of direct customer-facing operational support
  Benefits:
  Meteorcomm benefits include: Medical, Company sponsored Health Savings account, Dental, Vision, basic and supplemental Life insurance and AD&D, short term disability with 100% income replacement, long term disability, paid maternity leave, EAP, 401k with company match, Railroad retirement and pension plan with full vesting after 5 years, 80 hours paid sick and safe leave per year, 7 paid holidays + 4 additional floating holidays throughout each calendar year, 3 weeks paid vacation to start, and an employee rewards and recognition program.
  Compensation:
  The pay range for this position is $122,039 - 158,651 - 195,262. In addition, there is a potential yearly bonus at 10% of base salary.
  This is a hybrid position based in Renton WA. Our current hybrid schedule requires working onsite Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week.
  EEO Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability
  We are an E-Verify Employer

• Technical Leadership Requirements:
• Provides technical leadership to other team members and motivation through teamwork
• Guide other engineers in good product design, coding practices, and security
• Works with minimal supervision or guidance.
• Expected to consult with Principal engineers in multiple technologies and management appropriately on key decision points.
• Technical Contribution
• Ability and interest to learn the industry, technology stack, and enterprise-to-edge messaging protocols and operational environments
• Ability and interest to learn and perform RedHat Linux package customization along with enhancement of applications, hardware interfaces (example GPIO), and multi-node networked solutions
• Ability and interest to learn and understand custom hardware devices as operational platforms for our software. Be actively involved with our development lab environment.
• Responsible for application enhancements requiring design, development, and support of applications already in production.
• Work closely with product and engineering management to refine product vision and design solutions.
• Provides guidance in unit testing and other forms of testing and debugging.
• Analysis, Judgement, and Communication
• Conceptualize original ideas to bring simplicity to a complex product design.
• Guide support for sustainment of software currently in production.
• Present and defend technical recommendations to peers, management, and stakeholders.
• Provide assistance in addressing blocking or production issues that may occur outside of standard office hours, primarily acting with minimal guidance/independently.
• Encourage good design guidelines, best practices and coding standards.