Software Engineer / Developer

Overview

By Light is looking for Software Engineers and Software Developers to join our team! The Developer and Engineers review and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. They will also resolve software problem reports and utilize software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.

Responsibilities

Level 0 

• Analyzes user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Designs and codes new software or modifies existing software to add new features
• Debugs existing software and corrects defects
• Integrates existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develops simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Make recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards

Level 1

• Develops or implements algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional standards
• Assists with developing and executing test procedures for software components
• Writes or reviews software and system documentation
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards, conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project
• Modify existing software to correct errors, to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance. 
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
• Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries

Level 2

• Oversees one or more software development teams and ensures the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
• Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards

Level 3 

• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering
• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance

Required Experience/Qualifications

• Looking for 0 to 20 years software engineering experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional software engineering experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Special Requirements/Security Clearance

• TS/SCI w/ Polygraph required.
• By Light does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters; vaccination requirements and testing are subject to the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements; testing is at the cost of the employee.