About the position
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Software Engineer – Level 2 to join our team in Fairfax, VA, Linthicum, MD, or Morrisville, NC to support our Payload & Ground Systems - Integrated National Systems team. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. Ultimately, you will support the program through maturity and milestones to achieve the mission. Development is done within the Agile paradigm using the Atlassian tool suite. The work is full-time in the office. The qualified candidate must have and be able to maintain a DoD clearance. The successful candidate will have Software development experience, with the ability to digest changes and synthesize them into working designs, generate efficient code according to the specifications, and adapt to changes as necessary that are driven by bugs or specification updates or the customer. The candidate is expected to operate independently with little oversight in a dynamic environment, and to be highly self-motivated, reporting information to leads and the customer. The individual is expected to handle diverse assignments with efficiency, finding unique solutions and working in a very collaborative and fast-paced environment that continues to grow. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.
Responsibilities
- Support the Processing Team in development of tasking and scheduling software
- Be on an Agile team supporting two programs with a singular baseline
- Working to execute 2-week sprints for 3-month increment deliveries
- Design, develop, document, refactor, test, and debug applications
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application
- Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of professional experience (excluding internships, research projects, etc.) – OR – Master’s degree; may consider 4 additional years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree
- Java experience
- Software design experience
- Software unit testing experience
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservice architecture
- Object-oriented design experience
Nice-to-haves
- STEM degree
- Keycloak
- Node.js framework
- Web frameworks: React, Vue
- Front-end GUI design and implementation
- Grafana
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
