Master Software Engineer (Backend & Full Stack)

About the role

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong backend focus and full-stack capabilities to design, build, test and maintain scalable software systems. The role involves architecting backend services, developing APIs and working with the development team to deliver reliable, high-performance applications. It is posted for a position in Clarksburg.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs and microservices.
• Create and maintain full-scale testing architecture plans and system designs.
• Build, test and maintain high-performance, secure and reliable applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, customers and engineers to deliver new features.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and review code while mentoring junior engineers.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability and reliability.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Take part in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, standups, retrospectives and PI planning.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12-15+ years of professional software development experience, or 10-13 years with a Master's degree.
• Strong backend experience and experience building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Git, Docker, Kubernetes and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Required skills

• Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate (including native queries)
• End-to-end, regression and integration testing
• Software architecture, design patterns and scalability
• Preferred: React, Angular or Vue; Terraform, CloudFormation; Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

The pay range is $131,300 to $237,350, which is a general guideline only.