Junior Software Engineer - Aurora, CO - Active TS/SCI Clearance Required

About the position

Junior Software Engineer needed for a long term Contract opportunity with SOC's client to work onsite in Aurora, CO. Contract Length: Multi-year, with possibility of converting to client FTE. In this role, you have the opportunity to directly impact the world around you and contribute to classified programs and technologies you are passionate about. Our small agile teams adapt to evolving customer and warfighter needs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deliver, and maintain software for satellite ground systems.
• Modernize software systems and upgrade Commercial off-the-shelf COTS and Free and open-source software (FOSS).
• Work with talented teams of engineers, architects, and leaders in an Agile environment.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and 2 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and developing object-oriented software using Java.
• Ability to troubleshoot software errors and provide fixes.
• An active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI security clearance is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with COTS/FOSS and performing COTS/FOSS upgrades.
• Experience with some areas of satellite ground system software such as mission management, planning and scheduling, command and telemetry, satellite operations, or flight dynamics models.
• Experience developing software using C++ and Python.
• Experience working with a large-scale legacy software system.
• Experience with tools such as Confluence, Eclipse, Jira, Jenkins, Junit, Kafka, and Spring Boot.