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Intermediate Software Engineer
- The MITRE Corporation (Mclean, VA)
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Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us.
Our team architects, implements, and operates enterprise data systems, software products, and enabling engineering platforms. We have a diverse, highly technical, and motivated team that embraces self-direction and empowerment toward our goal of delivering powerful and sustainable software for the enterprise. Having experts in a wide variety of domains (software architecture, big data & cloud computing, aviation domain, etc.), we rely on cross-functional collaboration to promote organizational learning and quality.
Roles & Responsibilities:
+ Design and implement scalable software systems with quality and rigor
+ Continuously improve our codebases and our development/deployment processes
+ Collaborate with peers during planning, technical discussions, and code reviews
+ Write clean and testable code that works consistently locally and in virtual & cloud environments
+ Partner with domain experts to apply our software products to our diverse Mission space
+ Share your experiences with other MITRE teams and external audiences
Basic Qualifications:
+ Typically requires a Bachelor's degree (Computer Science, Data Science, or other physical science/engineering fields) and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
+ US citizen capable of obtaining & maintaining a US government clearance
+ Experience with high level programming languages such as Java or Python
+ Experience with software version control, continuous integration and delivery, and Agile and DevOps methodologies and tools.
+ Comfortable learning new languages and ideas, embracing continuous, on-the-job learning
+ Creative problem solvers and risk takers
+ Ability to collaborate effectively with teammates, technical partners, and stakeholders
+ This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site presence.
Preferred Qualifications:
+ Familiarity with web technologies and frameworks such as Typescript, JSON, React, and Vue
+ Familiarity with data science, analysis, modeling, and visualization using Python, R, and/or Clojure
+ Familiarity with distributed data systems and cloud platforms (Hadoop, AWS, Spark, Kafka, etc.)
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
None
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Suitability - FAA
Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$103,600 - $129,500 - $155,400 Annual
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.
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