Senior Software Engineer (Cleared)

Your Dream. Our Team.About Rise8Rise8 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 YouYou 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.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.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".Salary The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $138,826 to $173,533 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