Full-Stack Software Engineer REMOTE

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Full-Stack Software Engineer REMOTE

KBR is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to architect, design, implement, test, and maintain front-end, and middleware code, using modern web frameworks, and on occasion engineer backend capabilities. This Full Stack Software Engineer will be part of a team which enhances and maintains a high availability multi-spacecraft web service deployed on AWS' infrastructure. This position will also collaborate in architecting, designing, and implementing new solutions based upon new requirements. Open standards and a culture of collaboration are highly valued by the team.

Currently this position is 100% remote.

In the future the position could move to partly remote and partially on-site at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD.

***MUST BE a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident***

Required Education, Experience, & Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• 10 + years of related experience
• Ability to architect complex computing solutions in fast paced collaborative environment
• Exposure to full-stack web-service development and architecture & RESTful APIs
• Software architecture patterns (e.g., MVC)
• Web Server Technologies (e.g., Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, JSON, Redis, Websockets, SAML)
• Web Frameworks (e.g., Angular, Backbone, Marionette)
• HTML and stylesheets (e.g. HTML5, css, sass, less)
• Scripting experience (e.g., Bash, Perl, and/or Python)
• Familiar with AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS, ECS, etc.
• Understanding of high performance computing best practices (e.g., process/thread management and optimization)
• Test-driven development experience (unit, functional, verification and validation tests).
• Code Management using tools like Git, GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitlab
• Debugging and profiling performance of full-stack applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and negotiating skills

Highly Desired Experience, & Education:

• Strong code documentation experience
• Understanding of UI/UX design and best practices
• Understanding of development support, CI/CD concepts & relevant technologies (Ansible, Makefile, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Understanding of database design concepts and database best practices
• Experience with SQL, RDBMS (preferably PostgreSQL, but also MySQL, SQLite)
• Experience tracking user requests and observations in order to resolve issues
• C/C++ software engineering experience with distributed, & multi-threaded applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux command-line tools

Nice to Have:

• CCSDS Space Packet Protocol experience in extracting telemetry from packets
• High performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) experience, Google RPC (gRPC)
• Serialize structured data, such as Google Protobuf (gPB)
• Experience with ETL (extract, transform, load) command-line scripting, in order to analyze and compare binary and/or text based files
• Able to system administer Linux hosts

In compliance with the U.S. federal government's vaccine mandate, only candidates who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have a reasonable accommodation or approved medical exception will be considered for this position.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.