Manager Software Engineer (Minimum $10k Sign-On Bonus)

Location: Camden, NJ (On-site) | Schedule: Full-time | Compensation: Salary plus benefits, minimum $10k sign-on bonus

Overview

A defense and aerospace technology organization is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead development of mission-critical software supporting communications and service-based systems. This role provides technical leadership for a team of software engineers, guiding the full software development lifecycle while ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of complex systems.

What you'll do

• Provide day-to-day technical and task leadership for a team of software engineers, ensuring delivery of high-quality software on cost, schedule, and technical performance
• Lead development of RESTful APIs and service-based architectures, supporting Java enterprise applications deployed as WAR files on JBoss or similar application servers
• Guide software deployment and sustainment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, including RPM-based software packaging and distribution
• Participate in and lead code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions for service-based, VoIP, and application-level software systems
• Collaborate across engineering disciplines, mentor engineers, and support recruiting and performance management activities
• Contribute technical input to proposal efforts and engineering planning
• Support development and sustainment of VoIP and real-time communications applications utilizing SIP-based call control and frameworks such as PJSIP or PJMEDIA

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience
• Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience
• Experience in a senior engineering, technical lead, or informal leadership role
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, or integrating RESTful services in a production environment
• DoD Secret security clearance
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines and programs
• US Citizenship required

Preferred qualifications

• Exposure to proposal development, cost estimation, or EVMS-driven program environments
• Experience working in an Agile or hybrid Agile development environment

Compensation and benefits

• Salary plus benefits
• Minimum $10k sign-on bonus
• Relocation assistance available

Why this role

This position offers the opportunity to lead a talented engineering team on mission-critical software supporting communications systems, with relocation assistance and a sign-on bonus available for the right candidate.