Full Stack Software Engineer

at  Leidos

Description
Are you ready to join Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.
Leidos has an exciting opening for you as our next TS/SCI cleared Full Stack Software Engineer supporting DIA-NMEC under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will work closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Operations Engineering/Manager on a broad scope of activities extending across the development of systems to include backend and frontend software engineering tasks. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

YOU WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH THE TEAM ON THE FOLLOWING KEY TASKS:

• Provide software engineering support to portfolio projects ranging from internal and contract R&D to advanced system development across the Leidos enterprise.
• Develop visually appealing front end website architectures, including translating designer mock-ups and wireframes into front-end code.
• Design user interactions on web pages.
• Develop and design RESTful services and APIs.
• Stay abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Strategize organizational direction on emerging technology platforms and communicate the effectiveness to executive stakeholders.
• Stay current and provide insight on cutting edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors.
• Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.
• Keep job knowledge up-to-date by studying new development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal and professional networks; participating in professional organizations.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU NEED THESE SKILLS (REQUIRED):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related discipline with at least 8 years of applicable experience
• Must have TS/SCI and the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph
• Fluent in CSS (Foundation or Bootstrap), JavaScript ES6 and HTML, with an understanding of CSS preprocessors including Sass and LESS
• Strong knowledge of React and a working knowledge of Elasticsearch
• Experience working with languages such as Java and Python
• Experience in API Design and development
• Strong knowledge of data structures, system design and algorithms
• Experience with cloud based architectures and container orchestration
• Collaboration experience with information analytics research teams