Software Engineer/principal Software Engineer - Java

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +1 · Software

Software Engineer/Principal Software Engineer - Java Developer for Northrop Grumman in San Diego, CA. This role involves developing, integrating, testing, and maintaining desktop and web applications and backend services. Responsibilities include collaborating with other engineering teams, identifying technical risks, communicating progress to leadership, and creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Requires experience in Java microservices, web services, desktop applications, XML technologies, and Maven. A Top Secret clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop, integrate, test and maintain desktop and web applications and backend services as part of an Integration Functional Capability (IFC)
  2. Collaborate and work in an engineering environment with other teams such as other SW teams, HW team and System Test team.
  3. Identify technical risks/opportunities and proactively develop mitigation plans.
  4. Communicate the progress and accomplishments of the team to senior leadership.
  5. Create and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the software development life cycle.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 2 years of related engineering experience OR Master’s degree and 0 years OR PhD and 1 year (for Principal)
  • Experience in developing Java microservices, web services and/or desktop applications
  • Experience with XML/XSLT/XSD and XML technologies such as JAXB and XPath
  • Experience with Maven
  • Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tools such as Confluence and Jira
  • Familiarity with Agile development approach (sprint planning, retrospective and scrum)
  • Top Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
  • Experience working with one or more of these databases: Postgres, CloudNativePG, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Redis
  • Experience interfacing with a messaging service such as JMS, ActiveMQ or Kafka
  • Experience developing containerized software
  • Experience with automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell or Python.
  • Experience creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Maven, Bamboo, GitLab, Bitbucket.

What the JD emphasized

  • Top Secret clearance
  • Top Secret