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Senior Software Engineer (Cleared)

Reposted 21 Hours Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
139K-174K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
139K-174K Annually
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will deliver software solutions for clients, teach agile practices, and ensure project success through collaboration. You will work directly with teams and clients to implement effective software development methodologies.
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Your Dream. Our Team.About Rise8

Rise8 builds custom, secure software for government organizations, measuring success by impact: lives saved, time returned, and missions advanced. 

We think big, start small, and scale fast with elite teams across product, design, and engineering to drive continuous delivery for critical missions.

We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. Rise8 is where you’ll do the best work of your career—supported by a culture you won’t find anywhere else. We offer competitive pay and benefits, but what sets us apart is our commitment to autonomy, growth, and a culture rooted in kindness, candor, and continuous learning. 

Certified as a Great Place to Work®, with 100% of employees saying they love working here, Rise8 is where bold ideas become real capabilities. Where mission meets meaning. And where fewer bad things happen because of bad software.

About You
  • You want to make tomorrow better than today. 
  • You have a passion for high-speed security and you care about risk management over compliance.
  • You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time.
  • You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
  • You help ensure project success and client satisfaction. 
  • You enjoy collaborative teams, pairing with team members, and inviting your clients to participate. 
  • You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders. 
  • You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
  • You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.
  • You see AI as a force multiplier, not a shortcut — and you're already weaving it into how you think, build, and ship.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Rise8, you will: 
  • Work with clients who have never before taken part in design thinking, test-driven-development (TDD), paired programming, continuous-release deployment, backlog management, or even interacted with the user they provide software to.
  • Teach the why behind each of these practices, be flexible to client preferences, and discover new tools that will enable your customer to understand the value that comes with agile software development.
  • Be responsible for learning how your client likes to learn, how they like to receive feedback, and what ubiquitous language they use so you can speak in terms that resonate with them.
  • Learn, teach, and change your approach constantly to best collaborate towards a new way of thinking about engineering.
  • Pair with the customer’s developers and engineers to teach them how to develop and deliver user stories that provide business value, technical feasibility, and user-driven functionality.
  • Deliver functionality by developing working software and ensure a reliable software solution.
  • Ensure that development is delivered week over week and continuously gauge feedback from real users in real time.
  • Pairing with military service people and other developers to deliver value in real time.
  • Responsible for building and testing software solutions and ensuring the team builds upon what we provide not only technically but what we can teach through our practices.
  • Work with a balanced team in mind while building software that fits the user needs, business objectives, and stakeholder vision so the team can quickly make informed engineering decisions based on validated assumptions.
  • Champion AI-augmented ways of working across your engagement(s), leveraging AI tooling to accelerate delivery, reduce cycle time, and drive better outcomes at scale.
Qualifications 
  • Must have an Active US Secret or TS/SCI Security Clearance. 
  • 6-10 years of Software Development experience in a variety of programming languages.
  • Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment.
  • Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile methodologies.
  • Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems.
  • Experience with Java, Kotlin, Ruby or Elixir.
  • Experience with Spring Boot, React.JS, Vue or Redux.
  • Experience with both frontend and backend.
  • Experience using container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and processes such as Git, Concourse, GitLabCI, SonarQube, Fortify, and ThreadFix.
  • Demonstrated experience with API Development.
  • You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments.
  • You have a strong understanding of algorithms, databases, design patterns, and understand how to apply them.
  • You have strong facilitation skills.
  • BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications: 
  • Experience in training, mentoring and/or up-skilling engineers.
  • Experience developing cloud-native applications.
  • Experience leading a product or development team.
  • Experience building and deploying in a continuous delivery environment.
  • Experience working directly with clients.
  • Strong facilitation skills.
  • Experience with DoD, especially at a DoD "Software Factory".
Travel

Position may require up to 25% travel in support of contract performance, customer site visits, and program activities.

Salary 

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $143,824 to $179,780 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. 

Benefits 
  • Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce 
  • Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
  • Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
  • Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
  • Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $4,000 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
  • Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 50% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year.
  • Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro and multi-port adapter.

All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.

Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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