Software Engineer

Riverside Overview Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country’s most challenging technical problems. All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship. Position Overview Riverside Research is seeking a Software Engineer (Mid-level) with good experience to work in our Lexington, MA office. We are searching for a candidate that has worked in an environment with good software culture, promoting best practices and processes. We seek a motivated and collaborative employee who will be comfortable working within a cohesive software development team. This candidate will implement features and services in our software system, assist in the planning of designs, write code to fix bugs and expand functionality, and help to maintain a software system that includes multiple services, components, and clients, including a web application. Responsibilities Some level of participation in most parts of the software development life cycle, including providing input or review during feature conception and requirements generation as well as software architecture and design, implementation, build, deployment, testing, and support. Areas of focus may include some targeted areas of application architecture and software design, user-interface and experience , client-side and server-side development involving Spring, web application development, testing frameworks, and understanding and integrating with devops tools. Collaborate with project manager and other development team members to continue to support and develop a robust, high-quality software system that can be accessed on both desktop environments and web clients, with an eye for extensibility to leverage and display different types of data in the future. Ability to work directly with databases and other data stores in order to collect information and potentially perform certain levels of statistical analysis. Some interaction with stakeholders, customers, and users, or their capabilities and requirements documents, to understand operational strengths and weaknesses and help define roadmap and future focus areas for the software system. On occasion, provide direct customer support and technical assistance to users of the software. Other duties as assigned Qualifications Required Qualitifactions Active DoD Secret Security Clearance Knowledge of current best principles, practices, and procedures for design, development, implementation, deployment, and testing with respect to modern software applications and servers. Five years of professional programming experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or three years with a Master’s Degree or equivalent work and professional experience that is documented and can be demonstrated. Experience with modern software…