Software Engineer (FedD105)
Defense Unicorns
<h1><strong>EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP.</strong></h1> <h1><strong><br>Role Description:&nbsp;</strong></h1> <p>Defense Unicorns is seeking a Mid to Senior Software Engineer to help drive our transformation from legacy, on-premises software to a modern, cloud-native platform. In this role you will play a key part in designing and building our next-generation scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from diverse sources.&nbsp; You'll be joining Defense Unicorns’ US Navy team and be responsible for creating and owning end-to-end project delivery, and advocating best practices in database usage and system architecture.&nbsp; You will work closely with other software engineers, platform engineers, end users, and external stakeholders.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1><strong>Responsibilities:&nbsp;</strong></h1> <ul> <li>Partner with data architects, analysts, and a wide variety of stakeholders to translate ambiguous product requirements into technical solutions</li> <li>Design, build, and maintain complex ETL/ELT workflows&nbsp;</li> <li>Implement security protocols, including authentication and authorization,&nbsp;</li> <li>Create optimized transformations to clean, enrich, and model data, utilizing cloud-native tools</li> <li>Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance, maintaining metadata and lineage</li> <li>Help refactor and modernize existing on-prem systems into distributed, cloud-based services</li> <li>Contribute to the design of authentication, identity management, and RBAC/ABAC frameworks</li> <li>Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and ongoing technical improvements</li> <li>Drive best practices in microservice design, testing, observability, and CI/CD automation</li> <li>Collaborate closely with partner company engineers and stakeholders to devise the best solutions for our Mission Heroes</li> <li>Collaborate with the Defense Unicorns product team sharing improvements and growth opportunities for future projects</li> <li>Comfortable in an asynchronous, all remote environment</li> <li>Actively participate in communities of practice via Slack and Github Issues</li> <li>Integrate software products with existing defense systems, ensuring seamless interoperability and adherence to security protocols</li> <li>Own architecture decisions and ensure technical quality across the engineering team.</li> <li>Develop comprehensive documentation, including design specifications, user manuals, and maintenance guides</li> <li>Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform product enhancements and innovation</li> <li>Provide technical mentorship and elevate engineering standards across the team</li> <li>Communicate effectively with all levels of engineers and stakeholders internal and external to the company</li> <li>Influence product direction through deep understanding of user needs and system constraints</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Travel Expectations/Requirements:</strong> 10-15%</p> <p><strong>The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.&nbsp;</strong></p> <h1><strong>Preferred Experience and Qualifications:</strong></h1> <ul> <li>3+ years (mid) or 5+ years (senior) experience with software engineering</li> <li>Exper