Senior Application Programmer

Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Senior Application Programmer to support IT program at a major national laboratory.

The successful candidate will provide software engineering and application programming support for the design, development, testing, integration, modernization, and sustainment of complex software systems. Work will primarily involve a large C++ codebase running in Linux environments, with potential support for cloud-native and containerized deployment environments.

The candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team that may include software engineers, systems engineers, algorithm developers, data analysts, test engineers, cybersecurity personnel, DevOps engineers, project leads, and mission/customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

On any given day, the contractor may be called upon to:

• Develop, maintain, refactor, and modernize software systems using C++ in Linux environments.
• Apply sound software engineering principles, including object-oriented design, modular software architecture, defensive programming, configuration management, and test-driven or test-informed development practices.
• Analyze software requirements, clarify technical needs with team members and stakeholders, and translate requirements into maintainable software designs and implementations.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software issues in distributed, multi-node processing environments.
• Support operational systems by triaging defect reports, reproducing problems, identifying root causes, implementing fixes, and verifying corrections.
• Develop and maintain unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, and automated test workflows where appropriate.
• Participate in software design reviews, code reviews, work planning, demonstrations, and other team-based engineering activities to deploy software within planned schedules.
• Contribute to modernization efforts, including code refactoring, build system improvements, containerization, cloud-readiness, automation, and migration away from legacy components.
• Support continuous integration / continuous deployment, CI/CD workflows, automated build pipelines, static analysis, code quality checks, and release processes.
• Design, deploy, and support applications using cloud and container technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, when applicable.
• Document software designs, interfaces, test results, operational procedures, troubleshooting steps, and other engineering artifacts as needed.
• Collaborate effectively with team members to improve software quality, system reliability, maintainability, and development efficiency

Qualifications

• BS/BA in a relevant STEM field, such as a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related field and seven (7) years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job

• In Lieu of degree 13 years or more of equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

• Possess a DOE Q Clearance on Start or DOD Top Secret clearance with reciprocity to obtain a DOE Q Clearance, and ability to obtain a SCI clearance
• US Citizenship is required
• Ability to work On-site full time

Required Skills:

• Strong proficiency in C++ and Linux-based development and deployment environments, including experience with version control, debugging, testing, and performance-aware development practices
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Ability to manage assigned tasks, communicate progress, and raise risks or blockers in a timely manner

Desired Skills:

• Strong proficiency in developing cloud-ready applications to include containerizing and deploying high performance and scalable applications in cloud-native or hybrid computing environments, including experience with technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift.
• Experience with parallelization or optimization of software application using multi-threading in C++, multi-processes across multiple CPU or GPU cores, or compiler optimizations.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline technologies
• Experience developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining large, existing codebases.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication/interpersonal skills

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and standard office equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.
• Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding).

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Exposure to general office conditions while conducting office duties
• Moderate noise (i.e., business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic)
• Ability to work in a confined area
• Ability to work in a secure environment.
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period

About Us:

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.