Description:
Job Title: Lead, Software Engineer
Job Location: Lynchburg, VA
Job Code: CS20230811-107941
Job Schedule: 9/80, every other Friday off
L3Harris Technologies Inc.
provides mission-critical communications solutions that give our customers a clear advantage – making them safer, faster and more effective.
Our public safety and professional communications business sector is focused on radio and software products that serve first responders and commercial fleet users.
As part of our team, you will design and develop cutting-edge public safety products, impacting millions of people, for our critical communication radio systems used by police, fire, EMS, military and commercial customers throughout the world.
As a development team member, the successful candidate will be personally responsible for:
- Implementation of software components in an agile development environment
- Writing automated tests to verify functionality
- Participating in & creating requirements, design, and code reviews
- Generating & maintaining personal schedules, milestones, and deliveries
- Providing input for release notes and other technical documentation (user’s manuals, etc.
)
- Use of configuration management tools for issue tracking and version control
We are looking for a software engineer to join a product development team chartered with high performance backend engines/servers that serve as the backbone on a land mobile radio system, paired with feature-rich user interfaces as well.
Our software runs 365 days a year, 24 hours a day in demanding environments such as 911 dispatch centers, naval ships, military bases, and multi-state public utility operation centers.
We take pride in the fact that our customers depend on our software during the worst of times (natural disasters, severe weather, crime sprees, wildfires, evacuations, personal tragedies, etc.
).
Successful candidate will be willing to develop large scale production software in a disciplined engineering environment.
In this role, you will focus on both back-end service layer development as well as front-end user interface features.
You will embrace the writing of automated tests in parallel with feature development, taking ownership of product quality, and supporting our DevOps environment.
This position requires little to no travel.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience.
Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
Excellent time management skills
Lifelong learner; willing to continuously sharpen one’s skillsets & keep abreast on software industry best practices
Agile/scrum/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline experience (ex:Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.
)
DevOps experience
Distributed version control experience (ex: Git)
Full stack experience (both front-end GUI development & back-end business logic programming)
Knowledge of multi-processor & multi-threaded application development best practices
Automated testing experience (unit tests, functional/product level automation, etc.
)
You will be joining a tight-knit, highly skilled, but broadly-focused software engineering team.
This broad team works together to create and support solutions on a wide variety of platforms, so experience in a variety of software stacks is highly desirable and will be likely utilized in the future, including:
Embedded software development (ex: C, C++)
Microsoft Windows application programing (C#, C++, Microsoft .
NET, etc.
)
Java application programing (especially server/desktop environments)
Cloud-based software development (ex: AWS, Azure, NoSQL databases, IoT frameworks, etc.
)
Front-end web development (ex: Angular, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML, Javascript)
Back-end web development (ex: Java, ASP.
NET core)