Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GD Information Technology, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and improve core services supporting customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination. The role involves solving system and product problems across the stack, contributing to reliability and modernization, and mentoring and communicating with the engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Work in a unique environment and stack, offering challenging problems and interesting opportunities
- Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
- Help identify system bottlenecks or flaws in business logic and work with the team to address them
- Take ownership over product problems, develop solutions you're proud of, and prove through data that they deliver impact
- Work across the stack to solve problems -- there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to the technical growth of the team
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively within your team
Skills
- Cloud Computing, Software Solutions, Solutions Development
- 5 + years of related experience
- US Citizenship Required: Yes
- Demonstrated track record of delivering impactful, production ready, software solutions of varying complexity
- Experience designing and implementing components of distributed systems (multi-tier architectures) including storage layers, caching layers, and application layers
- Working experience with microservice architectures, with exposure to high-throughput systems
- Familiarity with system transformation patterns and ability to contribute to modernization efforts
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Java, Python, or similar)
- Solid understanding of cloud engineering paradigms, asynchronous systems, and service integration patterns
- Working knowledge of design patterns, reliability, and scaling principles
- Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and system design
- Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problems and their solutions
- Quality driven, owns their output from communication, to code, to documentation
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to teammates and stakeholders
- Experience mentoring peers or junior developers
- Willingness to advocate for sound engineering practices within your team
- Track record of learning and adapting to new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies
- Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance productivity and engineering outcomes
- Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to venture into new problem domains
- Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C
Benefits
- A variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- A 401(k) plan with the ability to contribute both pre- and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
- Up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period through the GDIT Paid Family Leave program for eligible employees
- Short- and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available
- Remote position
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