3 months ago
El Segundo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain mission-critical full-stack software across front-end, back-end, and service layers.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and engineering guidance across multiple software teams.
- Define and evolve application, integration, data, and event-driven architectures for enterprise mission objectives.
- Design scalable event-driven distributed systems and enterprise integration patterns.
- Develop modern user interfaces using Angular and related technologies.
- Design and implement scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed application components.
- Help teams resolve complex software, performance, scalability, integration, and architecture challenges.
- Collaborate with platform engineering and DevSecOps teams on delivery pipelines, automation, observability, and deployment practices.
- Promote software design, code quality, testing, maintainability, resiliency, and security best practices.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, and collaborative development.
- Collaborate with systems engineers, product owners, users, and operational stakeholders to translate mission needs into technical solutions.
Requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience.
- Extensive experience designing and developing distributed software systems and full-stack applications.
- Expert-level experience with Angular or similar modern front-end frameworks.
- Strong experience designing scalable backend services and APIs, including Kafka and event-driven architecture patterns.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous messaging, event streaming, distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns, DevSecOps, and CI/CD delivery pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and projects.
- Strong communication, leadership, and technical mentoring skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Active Secret or higher clearance is desired.
- A master’s degree in a relevant technical field is desired.
- Experience with Space Systems Command, space-related applications, SATCOM, mission systems, or operational C2 systems is desired.
- Experience with microservices, Kubernetes-based deployments, cloud-native applications, API gateways, service meshes, modern integration frameworks, and architecture governance is desired.
- Familiarity with Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, RabbitMQ, NATS, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, software supply-chain security, SBOM generation, and DevSecOps security tooling is desired.
- Experience with software factories, platform engineering, large-scale modernization, enterprise transformation, AI-enabled mission systems, or data-driven operational platforms is desired.
- Certifications such as INCOSE CSEP/ESEP are desired.
Benefits
- Work-from-home flexibility with on-site support as required in El Segundo, California.
- Minimal travel and standard working hours.
- Benefits may include a 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability coverage, paid time off, and a flexible work schedule.
- Professional training and development opportunities to support career advancement.
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About KBR, Inc.
KBR, Inc. delivers engineering, technology, and professional services to government and industrial customers, spanning defense, space, sustainability, and energy. Its businesses include long-term government mission support and program management, and Sustainable Technology Solutions that license process technologies and provide consulting and operations support across asset lifecycles. Headquartered in Houston and listed on the NYSE, KBR became an independent public company in 2006 after its separation from Halliburton.