Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineer

Location: Remote (US)

Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week in support of 24x7x365 operations

Weekday Shift Availability: 5:00 PM to 12:30 AM ET and/or 12:30 AM to 8:00 AM ET

Weekend Shift Availability: 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET, 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM ET, and/or 12:00 AM to 8:00 AM ET

Additional Requirements: Availability for holiday coverage as needed. Vacation requests should be submitted in advance to ensure adequate staffing and coverage.

Clearance: Not required, Eligible for Secret Clearance

Who We Are:

Rackner is a software consultancy that builds cloud-native solutions for startups, enterprises, and the public sector. We are an energetic, growing consultancy with a passion for solving big problems for both startups and enterprises. We enable digital transformation for large organizations through the newest in distributed technologies as we are laser focused on end-to-end application development, DevSecOps, AI/ML and systems architecture and our methodology focuses on cloud-first and cost-effective innovation. Our customers hail from a diverse, ever growing list of industries.

Position Overview:

The Software Engineer will support Air Force Platform One and Air Mobility Command in ensuring that we maintain high uptime for their chat operations. Air Mobility Command requires 24x7x365 readiness due to their global requirements so this position will require working outside of regular business hours (east coast time). The Software Engineer analyzes coding problems and develops improvements to procedures while exercising independent judgement. Designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and implements software.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the 24x7x365 team in ensuring that Mattermost is operational at all times
• Work on innovative R&D tasks while there are no active support requests
• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments
• Plans and leads major technology assignments
• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success
• Functions as a technical expert across the team and tasks
• Creates and maintains documentation for implementations
• Execute full software development life-cycle (SDLC)
• Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
• Write well-designed, testable code
• Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
• Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback
• Comply with project plans and industry standards
• Ensure software is updates with latest features

Requirements:

• Strong experience in several modern languages(Javascript, Go, HTML, etc.) with expertise to design, develop, troubleshoot, debug, and implement high quality code
• Experience in a wide variety of computing environments including cloud and containerized solutions
• Cultivates a “security-first” and “test-first” approach to test-driven development

Skills/Qualifications:

• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more of the following: Go, React, Docker
• Preferred: Gitlab, AWS, Kubernetes, SQL (Postgres or MySQL)
• Ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance

Additional Info/Benefits

Rackner embraces and promotes employee development and training and covers the cost of certifications relevant to a position and the technologies/services provided. 

• 401K with 100% matching up to 6%
• Highly competitive PTO
• Great health insurance with large network of providers
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Life Insurance, and short & long term disability
• Industry-Leading Weekly Pay Schedule
• Home office & equipment plan