Senior Specialist, Software Engineering 1 (MELBOURNE)

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

Job Code: 40201

Job Location: Rochester, NY; Chantilly, VA; Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every Other Friday Off)

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking highly skilled and motivated software engineering professionals to work in a dynamic classified environment to implement core functionality to support customization and UI teams by creating modular and generic services and REST endpoints. Working with technical Leads (TL) and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to design and implement new features. This team is primarily responsible for Java code and the PostgreSQL database. Successful candidates will join a development team in Ground Software and Image Science discipline, directly supporting solutions developed by L3Harris’s Space Ground Solutions (SGS) Group.

Essential Functions:

• Maintain and add features to existing backend services. 
• Design and implement new backend services. 
• Maintain and create documentation about backend services and procedures. 
• Participate in and host Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) with the functional team and stakeholders. 
• Participate in pull-request based code review for own work and others. 
• Provide daily status on work in the form of scrum updates and/or comments in JIRA/Bitbucket. 
• Participate in software design, code reviews, testing, and configuration management processes 
• Ensure software solutions meet mission, security, and performance requirements 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field and six years’ experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with Java, preferably Java 11 or newer. 
• Experience writing unit tests, preferably JUnit and Mockito. 
• Experience with SQL, preferably PostgreSQL. 
• Experience with Linux. 
• Experience with Java build tools, preferably Maven. 
• Experience with GIT. 
• Experience with Java IDEs, preferably Netbeans. 
• Experience with collaboration software like Bitbucket or Gitlab. 
  • Must be able to collaboratively work in a pull-request environment. 
• Experience with continuous integration (CI) software like Jenkins. 
• Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI or SCI eligibility 

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