Senior Software Engineer — Fleet Workflow Integrations
Sofar Ocean3 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Work directly with Fleet Weather Center users to understand routing, voyage-planning workflows, pain points, and operational needs.
- Translate observed workflows into user-interface improvements and practical application behavior.
- Develop software for ship selection, voyage planning, route review, route comparison, and presentation of route, weather, vessel, and voyage information.
- Build application capabilities that preserve routing context for review, comparison, and reproducibility.
- Prototype workflow concepts with users and iterate based on real-world feedback.
- Integrate and visualize routes and data from external Government systems.
- Evaluate unfamiliar Government APIs, interfaces, data formats, authentication mechanisms, and technical constraints.
- Prototype interoperability between Sofar technology and Navy and Government systems.
- Test and troubleshoot software and integrations with Fleet users and Government engineering teams.
- Contribute across TypeScript/React applications, Python backend services, APIs, data integrations, configuration, testing, and supporting software components.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and maintaining production software.
- Experience developing user-facing software and supporting backend services or APIs.
- Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or similar modern programming languages.
- Experience integrating software with APIs, data sources, backend services, or external systems.
- Strong visual and product sense with the ability to design and build clear, intuitive user interfaces from observed workflows.
- Ability to translate operational workflows and domain concepts into practical application behavior.
- Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems, interfaces, data formats, workflows, and codebases.
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across application and integration boundaries.
- Comfort working directly with users and iterating from user feedback rather than relying only on predefined requirements.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with engineers, product teams, domain experts, Fleet users, and Government technical organizations.
- U.S. citizenship, an active or recently active U.S. Government Secret security clearance, and successful completion of a background check.
- Willingness and ability to work onsite with U.S. Navy Fleet Weather Center users in Norfolk, Virginia, or San Diego, California.
- Bonus experience includes forward-deployed or field engineering, geospatial or mapping applications, routing, Government integrations, role-aware workflows, classified environments, Navy or Department of Defense work, and maritime or ocean-domain experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in the Norfolk, Virginia, or San Diego, California area with frequent onsite work, typically 2–3 days per week as needed.
- Work directly with Fleet Weather Center users and Government engineering teams in classified research environments.
- Candidates should already live within reasonable commuting distance of Norfolk or San Diego.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed